Does your work allow you to alternate between tasks that use your hands and body and those that use your
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- Claude Whitmyer
- 2024-07-07
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What’s Wrong With the Way We Think About Business?
It’s Just Business. It’s not Personal. Two sets of wishful thinking have thus far dominated trade and industry: The “free
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- Claude Whitmyer
- 2024-06-29
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Technology is not the focus.
Technology is not the focus. It’s the connection the technology makes possible Human augmentation by technology is now available to
- Claude Whitmyer
- 2024-03-06
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Are we there yet?
What are some examples of Right Livelihood to you? What do you do for a living? What steps are you
- Claude Whitmyer
- 2024-03-06
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Right Livelihood Books
LISTS OF CLASSIC BOOKS ABOUT RIGHT LIVELIOOD With Brief Annotations I thought I’d share the book lists with brief annotations
- Claude Whitmyer
- 2024-01-26
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Musings on Right Livelihood
Perhaps the most influential teacher about right livelihood, for me, is Tarthang Tulku, Rimpoche, a Tibetan Vajrayana teacher and lama
- Claude Whitmyer
- 2023-10-28
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Hello Zelle. Goodbye Paypal, Venmo, and Your Cousins
Recently I was asked why I had drifted away from using Paypal, Venmo and similar payment services to collect payments
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- Claude Whitmyer
- 2023-10-17
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Charlie Varon’s Year in Review (5783/2023)
The other day, I was looking at Charlie Varon’s website for some inspiration (he frequently inspires me) and I encountered
- Claude Whitmyer
- 2023-08-16
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People Don’t Buy Products or Services
That’s right! People don’t buy products or services. They buy a way to rid themselves of: a pain a problem
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- Claude Whitmyer
- 2022-09-22
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The Wisdom of C. West Churchman
A plan that emphasizes the parts may pay the cost of failing to consider the whole, and a plan that
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- Claude Whitmyer
- 2022-09-16
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B Corps and Patagonia’s new ownership model
Client Advice MESSAGE FROM XXXXX XXXXXXX ON 09/15/2022 Hi Claude, Dropping in for some input. I was thinking of sending
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- Claude Whitmyer
- 2022-09-05
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Briarpatch, Hippie Entrepreneurs, and Open Books, Part 1
Not to long ago, I got a request from a member of the Briarpatch (the alternative business network I coordinate)