FinTech is making great strides today with the help of AI and bringing to small businesses certain kinds of financial services that were only available to much larger ventures once upon a time....
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September 8, 2017
As my writing progress on my two books â Startup Communities 2 and #GiveFirst â continue to equal zero and the pile of unread stuff reaches higher into the sky than the stack of turtles going all the way down, Iâve decided to try a new process thing.
Iâm going have a reading and writing week starting today and going through 9/17. Any excess time I have next week will be for reading the turtle pile and working on the new books. The activities are self-reinforcing â I write better when Iâm reading a lot, I can only write productively for a few hours a day, and reading refreshes me a lot for future writing.
Amyâs birthday is next week (yes â it now lasts a week instead of a day) so Iâm taking the week off. We are together for every possible minute, other than when Iâm running and in the bathroom, so itâs a particularly great week to try this experiment since Amy also loves to read and write.
Once the US Open is finished on Sunday, weâll have no reason to watch TV. The books and a blank screen beckon. This will either work or not. Either way, Iâll learn something.
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