Explorations » Rules of Thumb http://explorations.chasrmartin.com Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense. Sun, 13 Feb 2011 04:41:43 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 When Spelling and Grammar Attack http://explorations.chasrmartin.com/2008/10/02/when-spelling-and-grammar-attack/ http://explorations.chasrmartin.com/2008/10/02/when-spelling-and-grammar-attack/#comments Thu, 02 Oct 2008 20:49:56 +0000 Charlie http://explorations.chasrmartin.com/?p=1009

One is most likely to make a spelling or grammatical mistake in any written assertion of intellectual superiority.

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If you aren’t happy with your current situation, then change something. If it gets worse, change back. If it gets better, keep going that direction.

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If you are presented with many choices, and none seems preferable, then simply pick randomly. If no choice is preferable, then no choice is preferable.

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If one customer reports a problem, many customers have that problem.

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  1. If you are always turned down after setting a price, your prices are too high.
  2. If you are never turned down after setting a price, your prices are too low.
  3. If your price is too low for the amount of work it will mean, you’ll be worried you will get the job. If it’s really high, you’ll be worried you won’t get the job. So the perfect price is a price at which you won’t be disappointed either way.
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