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Your life is your first venture. Like a startup, you should be intimately and viscerally aware of why and how you spend your money and time. As in…
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December 2022

This week’s newsletter from Chris W ’s Unknown Unknowns was just filled with one mind bomb after another. After falling down many a pleasurable rabbit…
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I’m a frugal person by nature and have spent many a happy break just whiling around the Reddit board r/frugal looking for lifestyle tips to save that…
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November 2022

I just finished Write of Passage, a writing course conducted on Zoom. The amazing thing is I felt I was learning more in the last 5 weeks than any 5…
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If you come across a time traveler on Twitter, what questions would you ask? This is how I feel about Pieter Levels aka @levelsio Levels predicts that…
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My daughter was crying after school. She had flubbed her math test. Math was her favorite subject in middle school. Now, she hates math. How did it come…
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October 2022

It is high time work itself gets blown to bits and then reconstituted piece by piece so that we all do the bits we love and are good at.
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“Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson It is December 1999 — I am on top of the world. Two months…
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Are you a fan of Studio Ghibli’s Japanese anime? Did you watch Spirited Away yet again? Were you wishing to adopt the adorable cat, Moon, from Whispers…
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