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Life is like kindergarten

My brother has an interesting post about time management over at his website on what we can learn from five-year-olds. He reminds us that multi-tasking is a myth, and that our brains are not designed to handle incompleteness well. I also like the term “learned ADD” he mentions.

Planning for success

I remember a line from the movie “It’s a Wonderful Life” when Mr. Potter tries to ruin the Building & Loan by hiring George Bailey away from it. George resists his generous offer at first, to which Mr. Potter complains, “Confound it, man! Are you afraid of success?!” As my business moves away from being [...]

Modeling for business

When my partners and I sat down to determine if we could start a business on what we had to work with it ultimately fell to me to figure it out the answer. This is probably because I love spreadsheets, numbers, and models. But creating a model to forecast business income and expenditures is no [...]

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