August has been a difficult month. My father has suffered a long history of health problems starting with brain cancer 16 years ago, aggravated seizure disorder, and two recent major spinal surgeries. On July 27th, dad fell after experiencing a seizure and severely fractured his skull. He underwent surgery to repair the injury, followed by …
Category Archives: ideology
Open Source Business
Bren over at Slacker Manager pointed out The Business Experiment the other day in a post and after sitting on it for a few days, I decided it could be quite the learning experience to put on my dancing shoes and join up. This promises to be an extremely interesting exercise, and hopefully will birth …
Wachovia’s Brilliant Customer Disservice
I’ve a new Evil Empire for the list: Wachovia. I know that they’ve always been evil, but I wasn’t a customer of theirs until a few weeks ago when they finally completed their acquisition of Southtrust Bank. The first shameful act of Wachovia is that they purchased and squished one of the best financial institutions …
Out here in the fields…
…I fight for my meals. I could probably write a book quite effective at helping people prevent making the same mistakes that I have made in the past 8 years or so. This is especially true for financial mistakes. Considering a book deal is pretty much out of the question, I’ll drop a few tips …
What gives?
Robert T. Kiyosaki calls it “charity.â€? Catherine Ryan Hyde calls it “paying it forward.â€? Christians call it “Love.â€? The basic principle seems to be this: Give away what you’re good at, what you need or what you hold close to your heart and the eventual reward will be greater than your initial gift. No matter …