Matt Cates
Bio
Freelance writer and owner of Cates Content and Copywriting; retired Air Force Veteran; former administrative assistant at Oregon State University; author of Haveck: The First Transhuman, the greatest sci-fi novel in the multiverse.
Stories (68/0)
How to Make Money on Upwork – A Guide to Earning More from Freelancing in 2023!
If you want to know how to make money on Upwork, you came to the right place! The below is just free info that I want to share with my fellow freelancers, so you can see how I made over $140,000 freelance writing on Upwork (so far)!
By Matt Catesabout a year ago in Lifehack
From John Lennon to Oprah: A Brief History Of Round Frame Glasses
In modern society, we’re so used to eyeglasses that it’s hard to imagine a time before they existed. In fact, historians have trouble pinpointing who exactly invented the darn things! But while the precise origin of glasses may be lost in the sands of time, history does give us clues.
By Matt Catesabout a year ago in Styled
Six Degrees (or Less) Between You, Me & Everyone Else
Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon. You know the game (if you don't check out the Oracle of Bacon), and you know it came from an actual theory called Six Degrees of Separation. So my goal here isn't to dive into the scientific studies or even discuss the validity of them. However - I recently ran across an old article by The Guardian called "Poof! Just six degrees of separation between us." The article notes that Microsoft Messenger connections indicated that the theory was pretty accurate (Microsoft came up with 6.6 degrees, but close enough).
By Matt Cates4 years ago in Humans
Jessica Jones, Santa Clarita..and Resurrection: Ertugrul!
Note: after coming up with the ideas for which shows I wanted to write about, I completely ran out of time to actually write about them! So I reached out to my friend Feyza Ogutcu for emergency assistance in drafting this. As always, she saved my skin! We hope you enjoy this list of the Top 3 Underrated Shows on Netflix! In the off-chance this post earns something, it'll be divided equally!
By Matt Cates4 years ago in Geeks
The Aegean Awaits...Just Over My Balcony
“They’ll kill you. It’s not safe!” “Who’ll kill us, Mom?” “ISIS…” As it turned out, ISIS didn’t kill us when we moved to the Aegean Sea coast of Turkey. In fact, the only thing that killed us was the kindness of the Turkish people we met.
By Matt Cates4 years ago in Wander
The Most Unbelievable Thing I Witnessed in the Military
Someone on Quora asked this question, so I gave them an honest answer. In 2006, I was an Air Force embedded trainer in Kabul, Afghanistan, and we drove out to see the local military guys using sledgehammers to tear up the exterior of a new facility we'd had built for their army. That was the most unbelievable thing I saw in my 21-year career. But the fact is, all my days over there were just one scene after another that made me wonder what we were trying to accomplish.
By Matt Cates4 years ago in Serve
Vincent Vega - Worst Criminal Ever?
Recently a Quora user inquired if real-life criminals might hold intellectual interests similar to Vincent Vega's? As you may recall, Vega, the hitman played by John Travolta in Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction, certainly had some interesting conversations with his partner Jules (played by Samuel L. Jackson). But classifying feet tickling and cheeseburgers as intellectual interests? That seems like a stretch.
By Matt Cates4 years ago in Criminal