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By the Ocean Partly 71 Degrees 6:04 a.m. In about one week, the first issue of the Renegade Letter goes to the printer. This is real, with paper and ink, that gets delivered all over the world. I’ve written many newsletters over the years. My first one launched in 2012. I’ve been launching them ever
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By the Ocean Cloudy 72 Degrees 7:13 a.m. The farther I get away from the world of social media, the easier it becomes to see the insanity it tries to convince the lemmings is “normal.” Here’s a simple social media “truth” that it has the audacity to expect you to believe: “The smart route to
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By the Ocean Partly Sunny 72 Degrees 7:58 a.m. It took me a long time to realize the extent to which you have to MAKE IT ALL UP if you want to stick out in the world. If you’re looking for the place you can “fit,” you’re doing something different. You’re taking what the Matrix
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By the Ocean Cloudy 68 Degrees 6:06 a.m. Imagine if you walked into a restaurant and the waiter just served you a plate of food you didn’t ask for and expected you to eat it. That would be silly. And that’s exactly how the algorithm driven social media beast treats human beings. There’s a reason
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By the Ocean Sunny 70 Degrees 7:07 a.m. It seems like people will pay to jump in a tub of ice or walk over hot coals without asking too many questions. But take away the gimmicks and hang out your shingle helping humans go into themselves and discover who they are and people will look
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By the Ocean Suhhh-neee 68 Degrees 6:19 a.m. My good friend is in the middle of transitioning OUT of the info business and IN to the jewelry business. We've known each other for the past 20 years, but have never actually met. When I talk to him on the phone and hear stories about what
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By the Ocean A Few Clouds 67 Degrees 6:19 a.m. What does it communicate to a child in school to require them to ask permission if they need to use the bathroom? It never occurred to me while I was in school, but this seems like an evil thing to do. Do you make your
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By the Ocean Sunny 68 Degrees 6:21 a.m. Earl Nightingale knew. This from his article titled, Following the Follower: “Processionary caterpillars travel in long, undulating lines, one creature behind the other. Jean Henri Fabre, the French entomologist, once led a group of these caterpillars onto the rim of a large flowerpot, so that the leader
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By the Ocean Mostly Sunny 69 Degrees 7:23 a.m. It doesn’t seem that you can figure things out all that well just by thinking. The real answers come in the DOING. If you ask a list of humans whether or not they will buy X, you’re going to get a very different data set than
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By the Ocean Light Rain 69 Degrees 7:43 a.m. You don’t have to do it like everyone else. You don’t have to do it like ANYONE else. It’s probably best if you don’t. So when it comes to showing up in the marketplace in front of your prospective buyers, perhaps you should choose methods and