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$10.7 Million

$10.7 million is what Mayor Gavin Newsom calculates the city of San Francisco spends annually to clean up discarded cigarette butts from

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“Endlessly Curious”

It is easy to say that life is a matter of how you look at it, that things turn out best for

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PopCap: “Tax What You Burn, Not What You Earn”

(A Populist Capitalist Blog Post) Al Gore said it and I’m supporting it: “Tax what you burn, not what you earn.”

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“Large Scale Waiting”

I’m reading Eckhart Tolle’s “The Power of Now” (sorry it took me so long to get to it, Oprah!) and learning how

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“Just Three Things”

How much data can people realistically absorb? Particularly in a meeting or in a short time? There is a reason phone numbers

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“The Joys of Frugality”

There it was, right on the cover of Parade magazine in my Sunday hometown newspaper. An article titled, “The Joys of Frugality.”

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The Most Important Variable

How long would you wait for a treat? Researchers put four-year-old children, one at a time, in a small room with a

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PopCap: “From Its Poorest Citizen”

(A Populist Capitalist Blog) At its best, being an elected official is a calling, a response to a sense of duty. There

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“It’s not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.”

We all have many roles we play in our lives. Two major roles of mine are businessperson and spiritual being. In one

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Four Human Needs

– Love and belonging: Have people in our lives we care about and who care about us – Power and recognition: Respect

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Our Actions Influence Our Feelings

Occasionally I hear people say, “I can’t help it. I just feel that way.” It turns out, we have more control over

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Recency Bias

“Recency bias” is a tendency to give greater importance to more-recent events than to less-recent events. Recency bias is just another way