I recently finished reading More Than a Hobby by David Green and Dean Merrill. It’s an insightful book on how Hobby Lobby works and the philosophy behind it. I learned a lot from it. Among other things, the author mentioned that the three most important things about managing a store are ...
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One term that has been gaining in popularity in recent years is lifestyle business. Lifestyle business is a kind of business that aims to give you the freedom to live the lifestyle you want. The goal is not to make a lot of money, but to have freedom. The freedom ...
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Becoming a good learner is essential in the world we live in today. Things change fast, and you need to upgrade yourself constantly to stay relevant. Being in the field of IT, I can really feel the pace of things. It seems like no week goes by without a new technology ...
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Whatever it is I’m involved or interested in, I always like to see the big picture. That’s why I like books such as The World Is Flat and Guns, Germs, and Steel. They give me the big picture of the topics they cover (which are globalization and history, respectively). Seeing the ...
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One of the things I want to do this year is to learn to read faster. I’m a slow reader, therefore, I can’t finish as many books as I’d like to. Many successful people, however, are fast readers. Warren Buffett once said that it’s a huge advantage to be able ...
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I recently read an article about NASA’s mission to visit Mars in The New Yorker. It tells the story of the Curiosity mission and the people behind it. It was a great read, but I especially like the closing paragraph. It’s about how the writer (Burkhard Bilger) went out with a ...
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