An article that explores the less well known concept of diseconomies of scale, and its implication for economic investments.
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by The Crazy Colombian on November 10, 2008
in Life,Opinion
Image: If I had something to say courtesy of re_birf Life goes in cycles: Day and night, menstruation, economic and even political cycles govern a lot of our daily lives. And in much the same way, creativity has a life of its own. So occasionally the writer within goes into hibernation. For most professional writers, [...]
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Image: Check Writing by carbonNYC With the introduction of Napster some years ago, peer-to-peer quickly became a buzzword that challenged the typical distribution model for music first, and for movies & TV shows later. Nowadays, talk about torrent downloads and online music services is an accepted part of our digital landscape. Some visionaries have even [...]
Image by Hamed Saber One of my constant sources of inspiration is best-selling author Dan Millman. I am starting to notice a pattern here: two of my spiritual guides (Jack Lalanne and Dan Millman) were former athletes, and shared their perspectives on life with others in a rather public way. If you know of more [...]
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Image by suburbanbloke About a week ago I created a ‘fun quizz’ to assess your level of environmental literacy. Today we will focus on a few things you can do to contribute in the reduction of carbon emissions. Before we get started, let’s see why this is a worthwhile goal. The cause for reducing carbon [...]
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by The Crazy Colombian on December 20, 2007
in Life,Opinion
Image by nattu On Dan Millman’s blog, there was a recent entry that generated some interesting commentary (click here to see the entry and comments) This is what was said that grabbed my attention: “I feel the aspect of achievement and success and making-something-of-oneself plays less of a role here in Europe. These are, [...]
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by The Crazy Colombian on December 18, 2007
in Life,Opinion
No, I am not going to refer you to the page where I have made a list of gifts I want this Christmas. Instead, I am going to ask you a very simple question: What do you plan to give your loved ones this Christmas? You may want to consider giving them a gift that [...]
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by The Crazy Colombian on November 23, 2007
in Life,Opinion
Image: Kiss with little voyeur courtesy of krisdecurtis When I started this blog, I wrote for myself. The blog started as a collection of random thoughts I was having, primarily during boring business meetings (What? I thought this was about love!” You’re right, dear reader. Hang on there and we’ll get to it in a [...]
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