Can Those ATM Receipts Laying on the Ground Tell Us Something About Money?
I have a money-related research project to run by you
To see success writing on the internet, you’ve gotta be a little weird.
You can’t cut through if you just write about the same shit as everybody else using the same thoughts and ideas.
Occasionally, you feel like your weirdness hits a wall. As in, other people just aren’t having it.
I felt this way the other day after sending out a free post via my Never Retire newsletter, where I include thoughts not necessarily a fit for the Medium platform and expand on the core writing I do here.
Here’s what I wrote in that post —
When I was in college, I conducted a fair bit of research.
Because I didn’t have a budget for my research until graduate school, I had to put in serious work to develop something resembling a reliable sample for the questions I was trying to answer. So I stood on busy street corners and methodically used what researchers call a skip interval (stop every ‘nth person) to deliver my survey.
The rudimentary approach worked. I got two peer-reviewed academic publications out of it. You can see the abstracts here and here.
