Tag: business
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Local Beans
Let’s talk about something mundane. Coffee. Wait? What? Coffee’s not mundane, you sonofa—— you might be thinking. I actually agree with you. I drink a lot of coffee. I prefer dark roast, like a French roast. I normally grind my own beans and sometimes even use my French press. Something of a coffee guy I…
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Learning the Business End
I love writing. I love to splash ink (or pixels) onto a page into an orderly fashion that resembles in some way… a story. I’ve been doing it for over 20 years in bursts and sputters and what I’d like to be doing for however many years I continue to live. In many ways, I…
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Hard to Care
It’s getting very hard to care about Barnes & Noble failing. I love books. As a reader and a writer. So in general I don’t want to see anything supporting that to fail. But much as with a lot of the way publishers treat writers, Barnes & Noble is treating everyone poorly, except their executives.…
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Micro-Nations
In another bout of trying to flush out an idea by writing it out, I wanted to explore an idea I’ve been mulling over: corporations as micro-nations unto themselves. If one thinks about it, one can almost envision it. Departments can be seen as statehoods or in a smaller scale, local municipalities. There are laws,…
Jeremy C Kester 