Nicholas Bandy

What do cookies and milk have to do with escaping bad business deals, making more money, and avoiding freelancer hell? … You tell me. Maybe I’m making this whole thing up. Maybe there’s no connection at all. Maybe I just wanted an excuse to talk about cookies. But stick with me, and you’ll see why

“Honey, these scammers are getting very creative,” I mused over a cup of coffee, watching my phone light up with a text from an unknown number. “are u coming over my house??” I read it aloud to my wife. She shook her head. “How bold are these people getting? What happened to fake IRS calls

In response to my recent email about AI disillusionment, a reader asked me to mansplain a bit more. Why am I so chill when the rest of the freelancing and marketing world sees ChatGPT as a hooded executioner? Here goes, ladies and gentlemen: Pretend you want to bake banana bread but… So what do you

I did a double-take driving down the highway earlier… 3 Dozen Males,$59.99 A warped cardboard sign in front of an abandoned family diner… Words looked like someone scrawled them in stolen red paint from a Home Depot dumpster… Very serial killer-y vibes. Is it a bulk Tinder bundle? A mid-tier harem? A bargain hit squad?

Picture this: You’re a work-at-home FDA employee. For the past five years, you’ve overseen “hands-on” investigations into meatpacking plants and pharmaceutical companies with the hawk-eyed precision of an ace detective. …All from the comfort of your Krispy Kreme donut-littered, particle board desk. You’re basically, literally Captain America. Our nation and people would be lost without

Other college students binged Nickelback, Jaeger, and Natty Lite. I binged Good Eats by Alton Brown. And Call of Duty. …I didn’t go to class much. If you don’t know Alton Brown, think of him as the cooking world’s Mr. Rogers. Fewer puppets. More pastries. He made cooking feel like a cross between a science

Remember when Biden told coal miners to “learn to code” in 2019? Maybe he should have told coders to learn to mine. Every day, the ChatGPT machine crushes another knowledge worker under its polished bootheel. Marketers, coders, designers, musicians… If you work with your brain, there’s a good chance you’ve felt the icy chill of

“And then I said, ‘you guys have been in my mouth a lot more than I have. I trust you.’” … Silence. “Ah. I would have to switch dentists if I said that,” my wife finally broke the tension. See, I was driving home from the dentist, bragging to my wife about what a good

Last night, I was trawling Reddit…(Not trolling. Not this time, at least.) …And I came across this post: What’s the best book you’d recommend for a small business owner?I would love to hear your book recommendations. Literally could be on any business topic: strategy, marketing, operations, networking, hiring, finance, etc. Could be a traditional book

This evening, I taught my wife a sick “hack” I’ve been using to burn fat in record time. And you, dear reader, can use this exact method for something far more lucrative than fat loss. I call it the Gear Shift Triple-Tap, and here’s how it works. Faster, Smarter, or Just Delusional? I was perched