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# Tim McCarthy and the Business of Good

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## [November Cartoon](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/articles/november-cartoon)

** Nov 1, 2017 12:04:43 AM / by [Tim McCarthy](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/author/tim-mccarthy) posted in [Creativity & Favorites](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/topic/creativity-favorites)

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## [The Temptation to Lie | Norman Brodsky](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/articles/temptation-lie-norman-brodsky)

** Oct 31, 2017 11:32:18 PM / by [Tim McCarthy](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/author/tim-mccarthy) posted in [Learning and Knowledge](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/topic/learning-and-knowledge)

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***Editor’s Note**:  I love this simple old fashioned business lesson, reported here by Brodsky in a current situation.  Most of my mentoring time is with small business where the temptations to lie are particularly enticing.  The most common “lie” is hiding cash from government reporting.  I used to lecture them, now I just show them what their business is worth with full tax reporting and how much less it’s worth without.    *

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## [Robert Frost](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/articles/robert-frost)

** Oct 31, 2017 11:14:05 PM / by [Tim McCarthy](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/author/tim-mccarthy) posted in [Creativity & Favorites](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/topic/creativity-favorites)

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 In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

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## [Noah Harari | Homo Deus](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/articles/noah-harari-homo-deus)

** Oct 31, 2017 10:31:15 PM / by [Tim McCarthy](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/author/tim-mccarthy) posted in [Creativity & Favorites](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/topic/creativity-favorites)

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***Editor’s note**:  This mind blowing work, subtitled “A Brief History of Tomorrow”, gets a bit lost for me because of its ambition to forecast a few hundred years forward.  Still there is so much to think about because of this brilliant author’s attempt to put some future form on emerging bio and data science.  Essentially he sees the combination of things like artificial intelligence, the “internet of everything” and DNA manipulations putting Homo Sapiens in a position to become Homo Deus (gods).  Man, having mostly overcome famine, plague and violence (good data on the truth of that is early in the book) has ever increasing bandwidth and so must inevitably come up with the “next big thing”.*

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## [What it Takes to be an Entrepreneur](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/articles/entrepreneurial-strategy)

** Sep 29, 2017 9:22:44 PM / by [Tim McCarthy](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/author/tim-mccarthy) posted in [Monthly Newsletter](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/topic/monthly-newsletter)

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 The topic of “what it takes to be an entrepreneur” gets only a little less ink than “what it takes to be a leader”.

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## [The Difference Between Open-Minded and Close-Minded People](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/articles/difference-open-minded-close-minded-people)

** Sep 29, 2017 9:15:26 PM / by [Tim McCarthy](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/author/tim-mccarthy) posted in [Learning and Knowledge](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/topic/learning-and-knowledge)

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*Editor’s Note: Thanks to Stewart Kohl and to www.farnamstreetblog.com for sharing this wonderful article.*

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## [Principals | Ray Dalio](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/articles/principals-ray-dalio)

** Sep 29, 2017 8:51:31 PM / by [Tim McCarthy](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/author/tim-mccarthy) posted in [Creativity & Favorites](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/topic/creativity-favorites)

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 Principals | Ray Dalio

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## [Pablo Picasso](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/articles/pablo-picasso)

** Sep 29, 2017 8:38:23 PM / by [Tim McCarthy](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/author/tim-mccarthy) posted in [Creativity & Favorites](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/topic/creativity-favorites)

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 The meaning of life is to find your gift, the purpose of life is to give it away

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## [The Beach Boys | Long Promised Road](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/articles/the-beach-boys)

** Sep 29, 2017 8:33:03 PM / by [Tim McCarthy](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/author/tim-mccarthy) posted in [Creativity & Favorites](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/topic/creativity-favorites)

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 Favorite Lyric:

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## [October Cartoon](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/articles/october-cartoon)

** Sep 29, 2017 8:17:43 PM / by [Tim McCarthy](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/author/tim-mccarthy) posted in [Creativity & Favorites](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/topic/creativity-favorites)

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