On Moderation
“A thing is sometimes added to by being diminished and diminished by being added to.” — Tao Te Ching (XLII; 96)
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Fortune
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Three Things I Wish I’d Known Before Starting My Own Business
Entrepreneurship can lead to fulfillment as well as to fortune. What better way to balance work and personal interests than
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Announcing the Soul Shelter First-Person Essay Awards
Tim and I launched Soul Shelter for the same reason we wrote The Prosperous Peasant, from our conviction that for the
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Entrepreneurship: A Primer
— Entrepreneurship is for everyone —
I’m a firm believer that our fortunes in life are closely bound to entrepreneurship skills,
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The Magic of Thinking Big
Readers who’ve subscribed to Soul Shelter for more than a few weeks know I’m a big fan of self-help books
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Trust Thyself
(This post is an installment of CommonSensical.)
Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essay “Self Reliance,” first published in 1841, is one of the
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Why Failure’s a Better Teacher Than Success
(This essay first appeared in a different form in the August 2003 edition of Japan Entrepreneur Report)
Our business in life
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Readers & Skimmers
A few months back, I sat beside an old friend at a formal dinner. Call her Penny. Penny and I
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What’s the Big Idea?
The nonfiction publishing world is ruled by the Big Idea: the concise, single-sentence statement of a book’s theme—and why it’s
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Opting Out of the Deferred Life Plan
Which moves you: Drive or passion?
Once upon a time, a young Apple Computer attorney named Randy Komisar negotiated a deal
