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End of June Readings
Written by Brad   

I am tired of the housing crisis and the endless talk about it.  Now it is time to move on to the endless talk about food, oil, and the election.  Here are some links to some of the articles I have found interesting in the past couple of days.

Who invented the Internet?
Pretty interesting article on what the human mind is capable of.

Wait didn't Al Gore invent the Internet?
Well it sure does take a lot of energy to do all of that thinking.  The best part is his home uses more energy after he takes steps to make it more "green".

Off-Shore Drilling for Oil.
Interesting map of where oil drilling is currently taking offshore and where it is not. 

 





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IPhone Attack
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Great find.  I think Verizon would be better worrying about their performance.  Still you can't fault them for trying.

IPhone Attack. 





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Business the Small Town Way
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Over Thanksgiving my wife and I returned to her hometown of several thousand people about an hour outside of Kansas City, MO.  We were driving home on Sunday and we got to talking about life in a small town (both of us grew up similar sized towns) and we started to contrast this experience with our current life.  Today we live in the heart of Kansas City, which is about 500,000 people (2 million in greater metropolitan area) and about 100 times larger than the towns either of us grew up in.  Needless to say living in the city it is much different than growing up and living in a small town.

During our discussion I got to wondering if a small town approach could help in growing a business.  Is there something to learn from the lifestyle of a small town that can help your business grow?  Are there characteristics in a small close nit community that can be emulated in a business?  After giving it some thought I think there are.


1)  You know your neighbors and everyone is a neighbor

My wife attended a craft fair with her mother one morning and everywhere she went people recognized her.  She had not seen some of these people in over 10 years and they still knew who she was.  They asked about her, how she was doing, and many knew we were just recently married.






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The great virtue of free enterprise is that it forces existing businesses to meet the test of the market continuously, to produce products that meet consumer demands at lowest cost, or else be driven from the market. It is a profit-and-loss system. Naturally, existing businesses generally prefer to keep out competitors in other ways. That is why the business community, despite its rhetoric, has so often been a major enemy of truly free enterprise.

Milton Friedman
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