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13 Strategies for Becoming a Successful Freelancer: Strategies Seven and Eight
By Tim White | Feb 24, 2022
Many career coaches and professionals have a lot of different things to say about how you should build and deliver your elevator pitch, which is basically a brief sales pitch that you can deliver during an elevator ride with a potential client.
Join OSI in Galt’s Gulch after TOS-Con
By Craig Biddle | Feb 23, 2022
After sharpening your mind and fueling your soul at TOS-Con 2022, what better way to extend the experience than by joining OSI in Galt’s Gulch?
Highlights of OSI’s Activities and Achievements in 2021
By Craig Biddle | Feb 17, 2022
Objective Standard Institute had a highly productive 2021, teaching numerous courses, producing 109 podcast episodes, hosting TOS-Con 2021 with hundreds of attendees, and much more.
TOS-Con Speaker Spotlight: Wolf Von Laer
By Craig Biddle | Feb 16, 2022
In his TOS-Con presentation, “Bitcoin as a Freeway to Freedom,” Wolf von Laer, CEO of Students For Liberty, will explain the fundamentals of Bitcoin, how it differs from other crypto-projects, and why he sees Bitcoin as a vital tool in the fight for free markets and limited government.
TOS-Con Speaker Spotlight: Amala Ekpunobi
By Craig Biddle | Feb 9, 2022
Can a young person break away from an irrational context in which she was raised? Can she activate her mind, think for herself, and build a life around her own independent judgment? At TOS-Con 2022, Amala Ekpunobi will tell the story of how she did.
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