Ambition vs Greed
Perform a quick interweb search for the difference between greed and ambition, and you will find millions of results in a very short
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The Greener Grass
What Makes the Grass Always Greener on the Other Side? You’ve probably heard the saying “The grass is always greener on the
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Understanding Full Service
Lessons from the Service Station. A number of years ago, while attending college, I worked at a full serve gas station. Full serve gas
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If I was King for a Day
A while back, and I mean a while – like 25 years or so, I was working in a small consumer electronics store.
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Change always comes at the cost of comfort
Comfort is the Goal Comfort seems to be the over arching goal in contemporary American culture. It wasn’t that long ago that cloth
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Ditching cable? When Free isn’t Enough.
In the first post I looked at the how I changed from television content supplied by the cable company to content supplied by
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Ditching Cable? Top 10 YouTube Channels to Watch in 2017
Ditching Cable Part 2 – In part 1, I looked at the reasons to abandone traditional cable and how I choose to receive content
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Ditching Cable? The Why’s and How’s of Cutting the Cord.
For me ditching cable started out as a matter of finance. I was tired of paying over $100 per month to watch television
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Are Stereotypes dividing America?
What are stereotypes, and where do they come from? Are they useful, or damaging? I am not an expert in this area, so
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Is HAM Radio Relevant in the Internet Age?
Not long ago I was watching “Last Man Standing” on ABC. Tim Allen plays Mike Baxter KA0XTT, who is the manager of
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Tools of Titans belongs in your Crapper
Yeah, I said it. Tools of Titans belongs in your Crapper, John, Biffy, whatever you want to call it. Now before
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Pop or Soda – a Book Review of “Speaking American” by Josh Katz
The book “Speaking American” by Josh Katz is an entertaining look at the way language is used. The english language is supposed to
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Could Effective Altuism Change your View on Charity? — “Doing Good Better” – a Book Review
Value and Altruism. Everything has a value shouldn’t our charity. In his book, “Doing Good Better”, William MacAskill intends to identify an unconventional
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Motivation
There are two types of motivation, and two ways in which we experience it. We are either motivated by either pleasure or
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Design or Discover
Have you ever considered what it takes to design something? Coming up with the original idea is difficult enough, let alone the trial
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Goals vs Systems
Goals vs Systems Most people are familiar with Goals. New Year’s resolutions are typically goals. They are usually something like I want to
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