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How seldom we know what we’re really looking for

19Jul08

Not too long ago, we were shopping online for flowers. It didn’t take too much searching to figure out that the standard online flower shop – alongside many another online retail service – is missing that certain something. In fact, there is plenty of discussion about the fact that online retail lacks something in the [...]

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Mellifera economics.

20Jan08

A lot of people know Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt. The economist/writer pair the write the Freakonomics column for the New York Times and put out a bestselling book by the same name; I took some time over the holidays to read it.
What I loved most about it was the simple assertion that by reading [...]

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in brief:

Sometimes I wish we could freeze a person in time and examine, in a very comprehensive way, how any one person’s thoughts and experiences have lead them to see the world in the exact way they perceive it. Why any one person is exactly where they are, when they could be in an infinite number of other places, thinking an infinite number of other things.
I’m here because I’ve come to believe that we all have a way of learning something from everything we experience. It’s not always big. It’s not always what we expect it to be. We might think that it’s contrary to something we already know. Or believe. But it’s always something.
-Kyle
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Mellifera economics.

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