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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 prior, my first venture-backed company sold for $193 million. My second startup, ShoppingList, just closed another round of…
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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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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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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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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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