A personal notebook
Thoughts, notes, and ideas.
Writing about whatever I’m trying to understand.
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YOGA – What I learned today
Calm, Centered, Present-ness Effort and Surrender. Of the two, Surrender is much more powerful. I’ve learned that in other days practicing Yoga. I learned today, surrender means being in the present. Effort is living…
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Wal-mart History
Sam Walton Author: Sam Walton How Wal-Mart is Destroying America and The World and W… Author: Bill Quinn Sam Walton was the shrewd businessman behind the world’s largest retailer. After working his way through…
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Ford Motor Company History
Ford Motor Company entered the business world on June 16, 1903, when Henry Ford and 11 business associates signed the company’s articles of incorporation. With $28,000 in cash… As with most great enterprises, Ford…
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Goodyear Corporate History
The 38-year-old founder, Frank Seiberling, purchased the company’s first plant with a $3,500 down payment – using money he borrowed from a brother-in-law. The rubber and cotton that were the lifeblood of the industry…
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Kinko’s History
In September 1970, Paul Orfalea, just out of college, borrowed enough money to open his first photocopy shop in Isla Vista, the campus community of the University of California at Santa Barbara. Instead of…
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FedEx History
In 1965, Yale University undergraduate Frederick W. Smith wrote a term paper about the passenger route systems used by most airfreight shippers, which he viewed as economically inadequate. Federal Express was so-named due to…
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John Deere History
As a small business owner, I’m often curious how other companies began. When you think of a big company that’s been around for a very long time, it’s hard to imagine them as small.…
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FranklinCovey > Focus: Achieving Your Highest Priorities
FranklinCovey > Focus: Achieving Your Highest Priorities I recently listened to this seminar. It was surprisingly helpful. The topic is basically time management. But the interesting angle of this seminar compared to other time…
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Allegory of the Cave and God
Indiana is now in his sixth month. Within this time I have been able to reflect on a couple different thoughts. First, I have thought a lot of Plato’s The Cave recently. Allegory of…
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Star Wars: Episode III Digital Cinema List
It took me a while to find this list. I was searching on phrases like: digital projection system see star wars in a digital theater digital theater star wars DLP Digital Projection Theater Listing…