Human beings are wired funny. We were given these giant brains so we could be creative, could think of new ways to do things, could come up with incredible new inventions. We even have opposable thumbs, with which we can make all kinds of nifty tools like the wheel, the printing press, and Twitter. But we also have a big scary alarm that goes off … [Read more...] about Dumb Things Small Businesses Do #7: Following the Herd
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Why This is the Best Time to Finally Break Free
I've been thinking about Moscow again. I was there in the late spring of 1997. I can still remember gripping the arm rest on the plane as we circled the dachas outside the city. I was terrified. I thought of Moscow as the "Wild, Wild East" (It turns out it had calmed down considerably since, say, 1994, when the mafiya is reputed to have used … [Read more...] about Why This is the Best Time to Finally Break Free
