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Success

I recently read an anonymous comment from a person who is going back to college after spending two years buying expensive products from Internet marketing gurus. He/she writes,
The light at the end of *my* tunnel is that losing two years of my life to these jokers has made me serious for the first time in [...]




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It all started as a tweet:
Most gurus surround themselves w/ sycophants to build their egos. And most gurus don’t like me because I’m not a sycophant.
Actually, it started before that.
You see, yesterday (August 11, 2010) I was talking on the phone with a close friend. In a roundabout way, he discovered a certain guru does [...]




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Cash flow problems are bad enough in a good economy. But they can be the kiss of death in a bad economy.
So if the recession has you scrambling to come up with money to pay your bills on time, then these four ways to cure cash flow problems quickly should come in handy.
1. Eliminate Unnecessary [...]




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After a few Belgian beers at The Cheeky Monk, my friend Chad and I began to talk about economics.
As we discussed the source and nature of money, we began to zero in on the idea of value. What is value? How is it created? Where does it come from?
Initially, I argued that value is created [...]




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Is the Internet making us stupid?
This is the question Michael Brown asks in his recent article about Nicholas Carr’s new book, The Shallows.
My take:
The Internet (and the portability of technology in general) is making us more distracted than ever. When it’s harder to focus, your ability to maintain a single line of thought is extremely [...]




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