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From the Archives: The Ultimate Cost of Penny-Pinching

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I know a rich man who has become such a slave to the habit of economizing, formed when he was trying to get a start in the world, that he has not been able to break away from it. He would never think of inviting a customer or a prospective customer to a luncheon, or of offering to pay his car fare (if he happened to be traveling with him).

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The Return To Office Trade-Off

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If employees are spending $20 or more per day on commuting, between transportation and lunches, and two+ hours traveling compared to working from home, employees might reasonably expect to be compensated for that extra time. Beyond the one-to-one comparison to the financial cost of commuting, food brings people together.

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‘Maybe the Only Way to Have an Answer to the Unknown Is to Face It Every So Often’

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From there the trail hops back and forth over Slickrock Creek, which forms part of the border between North Carolina and Tennessee. My goal is to conquer it today, camp at Naked Ground, then hook up with another trail that takes a less-strenuous 8.5-mile mile route back. That’s just one segment of local news.

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We are not blank slates and we don’t adapt to change in predictable ways

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It bears some comparisons with Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society by Nicholas A Christakis which offered a wide-ranging look at how people and their societies and environments are shaped by their innate and sometimes unchangeable characteristics. These are always commendable goals and you can see the logic.

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The Subtle Comfort Of The Discomfort Zone

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There is a certain time when all the first three steps are coming together, forming a fantastic realm of pressured satisfaction. The simplest comparison is with a workout. Things are moving, are transforming around you, there is still a lot of pressure to be solved, you’re tired and frustrated, but, somehow, you’re thriving.

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Are You Copy Pasting Your Life?

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For instance, if the stimuli is a big flame touching our hand, our reptilian brain will trigger a powerful and potentially life-saving response, usually in the form of a “run!” The Greatest Form of Suffering of All- Inaction Reply 14 dragos October 26, 2010 at 7:39 pm I liked the comparison. It does that in half of a second.

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An iPhone App In 30 Days – The Challenge

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Speaking of errors, specifically about error messages, after 30 days of learning Objective C I am totally convinced that the error messages in Xcode were invented by a joyous and careless hermit, with the only goal of driving programmers crazy. Program received “BAD_EXC” message. Wow, really? You kidding me? Complicated.

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