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The Man Who Never Stops Teaching, with Logan McGhan-EP 266

Today’s podcast is about mentorship, finding it, and paying it back. Logan McGhan is an old friend of mine from the used machinery business who is now a CNC programmer at a semiconductor company in Arizona. Along the way he’s had invaluable mentors in martial arts, machining, and sales, and

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What are YOU selling?

I’m sitting on a wooden chair at my local Starbucks next to a kiosk of snacks I’ve never seen anybody buy. I’m sipping an iced

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Pools of Money

We hear the term “private equity” tossed around every day in business. The Bloomberg ticker tells us about the giants that often go by initials

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Equal Opportunity?

I have been thinking a lot about whether America has become hopelessly stratified by wealth, race, education and all sorts of barriers that make it

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Let Me Work

I’m on vacation in the Bay Area and I’m working. Today it’s a blog, business calls, thinking about options for TMW and Graff-Pinkert. I’m in

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