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Time for re-runs – The Daily PPILL #300

Time for re-runs – The Daily PPILL #300

Today is a special day. Yes, it’s Friday for all of us. But it is also the day I publish my 300th article. I have been publishing every day, from Monday til Friday. I started this journey more than a year ago. 64 weeks ago to be exact. I only paused for a few...
“I have read all the books” – The Daily PPILL #296

“I have read all the books” – The Daily PPILL #296

Most knowledge workers have benefited from a model where we learned the skills, and then, we sold our skilled work. Sometimes to other people that didn’t have the skills, and sometimes to an organization that needed an army of skilled workers. We didn’t...
What’s a good job? – The Daily PPILL #294

What’s a good job? – The Daily PPILL #294

The first time I heard this, was from my good friend Victor, a very long time ago. He was painting her mother’s home at the time, and he told me that the job had a “high degree of feeling of accomplishment”. It stayed with me all this years, and I...
What will happen with consumption? – The Daily PPILL #287

What will happen with consumption? – The Daily PPILL #287

The story goes, that when Henry Ford set the price of the original Model T, and the factory workers’ wages, the math came out to about four months of an average salary for the car. The thing is, an entrepreneur makes things because they want to see a different...
Change is hard – The Daily PPILL #285

Change is hard – The Daily PPILL #285

Sometimes we to the conclusion of limiting the possible alternatives. In business, there are “substitutes”. We have competitors, products and services from others that are similar to ours. But substitutes are different. Substitutes are not similar at all, but the...