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I’m a voracious reader and would read all day if I could, but then I’d get nothing done. My RSS Reader goes through a constant flow of me adding and deleting subscriptions in an effort to not return to overloading myself with materials to read. I might add a subscription based on excellent post I [...]

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My good friend Seth just let me borrow his copy of Danny Meyer‘s book Setting the Table: The Transforming Power of Hospitality in Business. Meyer is a entrepreneur-restaurateur that runs a bunch of different restaurants in NYC, and an inspiration to me as far as he runs his businesses. I’m only a few pages in, [...]

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I was very surprised by this video collage of Will Smith talking about life, and how inspiring and truly meaningful the things are that he says. Favorite line: Being realistic is the most commonly traveled road to mediocrity. Worth re-watching many times.

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Productivity is more important then ever before. With information flowing faster than ever before and coming from so many directions, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed and do the whole “staring at my inbox filling up” thing every day. There are some good books out there that help get your productivity up and your process under [...]

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While watching a fascinating lecture by Robert Sapolsky called “The Uniqueness of Humans” last night I couldn’t help but see a strong correlation between the behavior of chimps in a certain experiment, with that of my fellow entrepreneurs and artists. During the section on the pleasure In anticipating and gratification postponement the following chart was [...]

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Inspired by both my re-read of Timothy Ferriss‘ book The 4-Hour Work Week*, and a lot of recent reading and writing about customer retention, I just created the following auto-responder for all orders that come in from the Family Records store: Hello! Thank you very much for purchasing some music from the Family Records store. [...]

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