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Does someone have to become poor for you to become rich?

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https://www.jamisonroadfire.com/fire-fighters/ I recently read Dream Hoarders: How the American Upper Middle Class is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust , Why that is a Problem, and What to do About It. Dream Hoarders is a book with a good point hidden in a really annoying lecture. The premise: Because of our society and our culture, the upper […]

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Modern society has perfected the art of making people not feel necessary

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Ambien Buy Online While I don’t agree with everything Sebastian Junger writes in Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging, I love the way he manages to articulate some things that I’ve noticed but never been able to describe. Just last weekend I was camping, and we had this torrential rain storm. People rushing to get their boats off the

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Book Review: The Starfish and the Spider & Open source software organizations and money

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https://www.jamisonroadfire.com/fire-fighters/ The Starfish and the Spider compares two types of organizational structures. Spider organizations have a central command structure, like a CEO. If you detach one of the spider’s legs from the head, the leg can no longer function. It is not autonomous. Starfish organizations have very distributed command structures. Cut off a leg and it

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Books to read if you liked How to Train Your Dragon

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https://www.tooloudrecords.com/unzane/ I watched How to Train Your Dragon yesterday and I really enjoyed it. I plan on reading the How to Train Your Dragon book series. I started thinking of all the dragon books I’ve read … and realized that while I know a few really good series, I know fewer than I thought. (I must

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Fiction writing tip #1: Do not make things too easy for your protagonist

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Ambien Online Ordering Here’s a writing tip from a reader: do not make things too easy for your protagonist. I’ve been reading fiction books by new authors. They often make the protagonist struggle throughout the whole book and then suddenly give them super powers. Or sometimes they sporadically give them superpowers throughout the book. Or have magical creatures

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Book Review: Managing the Nonprofit Organization

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https://medmanor.in/contact-us/ If you follow any of the links to Amazon in this post, any purchases you make will send a referral fee to the GNOME Foundation. Peter Drucker‘s Managing the Nonprofit Organization was full of good ideas. I started ripping off pieces of my bookmark to mark interesting pages and ended up with no bookmark! Managing

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How I’m learning to create effective presentations

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Creating effective presentations is really hard. Here’s a short summary of my journey and the two books that helped me. (This started out as a book review and I realized that what I really wanted to write about was how I was learning to create presentations.) The number one thing that has helped me give

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