E-M8 Entrepreneurial Management for Eternal Mission

I am a capitalist. Well really, visionist, a person who believes that people with a vision (rather than capital) should control the world. However, a well functioning, transparent capitalism is a fairly close approximation, since people with the vision usually can align the resources behind it. Some of the wealthiest men today did not start with [...]

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Yesterday I spent 45 minutes to walk to a restaurant that promised me free WIFI to speak for 2 minutes with a technician from a company that is a contractor to their contractor, who has agreed for pay to arrange an Internet connection for my wedding day that will be provided through a different provider [...]

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As an update on my travels. Things are going fairly well in the Caucasus mountains, but I am looking forward to going to Ukraine again. This is a part of the world that is different enough from the familiar that in order to be a comedian elsewhere one only has to record street conversations here [...]

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The other day, at Spreenkler, while waiting for Mayor Tom Barrett to show up, I was talking with the owners of Transfer Pizzeria in their new location Via Downer and we stumbled upon an idea that would do more for revolutionizing business district revitalization in most cities than any government program, and unlike other government [...]

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The other day I was at Alterra on Humboldt and was surprised to see them use heating to keep their outside space usable during winter. Don’t get me wrong, I understand the business reason for it, and if anyone else did that I would not give it a second thought. However, Alterra is very emphatic [...]

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