Business reality check: divorcing one’s efforts from self appraisal
The products I make are not necessarily better than others’. It only feels that way because I made them.
MoreThe products I make are not necessarily better than others’. It only feels that way because I made them.
MoreSustainable livelihood vs successful life
Low barrier of entry cannot be confused with ability to sustain business
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It is heart wrenching to read about long running farms, held for generations within the family, being given up or put on sale. Reasons include unviable business conditions and climate change. On the other hand, the same can be said of farms in India where the frequency of such occurrences are greater and their situation […]
More创业难,守也更难,弃业最难。
Being friends for life entails long periods of having drifted apart from, and awkwardness with one’s once best friends. Being friends for life requires us to tide out stretches of time when one’s personal and professional goals differ greatly (starkly). After three and a half decades, I have come to learn that being friends for […]
MoreSlow growth or perhaps contraction worries just about most people. However, it is really when it is good for the environment. This is the nature of the global economy.
MoreI didn’t buy any gifts for my friends’ and families’ children while my daughter received from them all the same. How can I teach my daughter appropriately? It inevitably creates a false impression of the generous or stingy nature of certain persons who have or have not prepared gifts respectively; especially in children whose minds […]
MoreI am burdened with too many things in my life and have been decluttering for at least two years now. It is not a resolution for 2020, neither was it a resolution for the past two years. I have indeed been at it for some time. Interestingly, I am not the only one. I have […]
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