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The Monday Morning Memo

Butterfly on Tower Sword Vertical

Twenty-four hours a day, the north star – Polaris – hovers just above the hilt of this sword when you are standing on the Laughlin Stone in the causeway of the tower at Wizard Academy. You should see it sometime. – Indy Beagle

Butterfly on Tower Sword

“Average people are afraid of looking stupid. This is what holds them back. It is only by attempting the ridiculous that we can accomplish the miraculous.” – Roy H. Williams

Descartes before des horse_Tom Robbins

“As to the quality of the beer we cannot testify – perhaps a taste of it today would leave us sadder Budweiser – but when it came to perfumery, the monks were not inexpert.” “Their quarreling chewed through  the curtains, pierced the casements, and rattled over the cobblestones outside. How strange it must have sounded, […]

Manley Miller on Leadership

      “No one wants to be a leader anymore. Everyone wants to be a commentator. You want to know how to identify a leader? Just look for the person who’s making the decisions.”– Manley Miller, New Orleans

First Principles of Advertising

You are inside your business, looking out. The customer is outside your business, looking in. Your inside-out perspective makes you blind in one eye. Confirmation bias makes you blind in the other eye. You cannot see yourself the way your customer sees you. You imagine how they see you based on your mission statement, your […]

Japanese Temples for 800 Years

株式会社金剛組 Kabushiki Gaisha Kongō Gumi is a Japanese construction company founded in 578 A.D., making it the world’s oldest documented company. The company mainly works on the design, construction, restoration, and repair of shrines, temples, castles, and cultural heritage buildings.

MMRadio_Margot_Entrepreneurism

She served as an FTC Commissioner and as staff director of Ronald Reagan’s Council of Economic Advisers. Her name is Margot Machol Bisnow. In her post-government career, Margot is guiding parents on how to grow their children into successful business owners. In essence, Margo is an evangelist for entrepreneurism. Although she focuses on kids, teens, […]

Dance Hits from 1982

“We are suspended in that eternal moment between the past and the future.”– RHW, July 5, 2022 “It seems to me that most animals have this superb economy of motion. The instinctual notion of how much energy to expend, the ability to do a thing thoughtlessly and do it right, is a quality that I […]

Dance Hits from 1976

Dance Hits from 85

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Tiny Tribe Pick of the Week 4

Christianity

“Christianity is not a religion. Christianity is the proclamation of the end of religion, not of a new religion, or even of the best of all religions.” “If the cross is the sign of anything, it’s the sign that God has gone out of the religion business and solved all of the world’s problems without […]

Nate Staniforth Quote

   

Words I cannot pronounce

    “The thing about learning the correct pronunciation of a word l’ve been saying wrong for 30 years is that instead of pronouncing it correctly moving forward, I will simply never say it again. Nothing is macabre or hyperbolic. Segues are transitions. The river in London has no name.”– Alix E. Harrow

Why Your Business Needs Three Strategies

Your business needs three strategies because your business has an inside and an outside and an engine. This is why every successful company has a Mother and a Trumpet and a CEO. The CEO choses a destination and builds a machine to take us there.The Mother looks inward to the people in the company. The […]

You deserve a break today at McDonalds

Below is the story behind the story.

Buddha Gourds

Fooled by sound

The Rosetta Stone

Desert Drifter Forbidden Cliff

Noahs Ark in the British Museum

Beagle whithper with a lithp

Five hundred years ago, the Ottoman poet Latifi said each of the books in his library was, “a true and loving friend who drives away all cares.” What makes a library a reflection of its owner is not merely the choice of the titles themselves, but the mesh of associations implied in the choice… A […]

MMRadio_Dr_G

  Dr. Laura Gabayan is an emergency medicine doctor and associate professor at the UCLA School of Medicine, and for many years she has conducted a scientific study of wisdom, including how to define it and cultivate it. Dr. G., as she is known, recently published her findings and is sharing them today with roving […]

Backman Back Again

The House of Alain de Botton

“The house has grown into a knowledgeable witness. It has been party to early seductions, it has watched homework being written, it has observed swaddled babies freshly arrived from hospital, it has been surprised in the middle of the night by whispered conferences in the kitchen. It has experienced winter evenings when its windows were […]

Steinbeck and childhood friends

“My town had grown and changed and my friend along with it. Now returning, as changed to my friend as my town was to me, I distorted his picture, muddied his memory. When I went away I had died, and so became fixed and unchangeable. My return caused only confusion and uneasiness. Although they could […]

Roosevelt reflects

“The hunter who wanders through these lands sees sights which ever afterward remain fixed in his mind…. Apart from this, yet mingled with it, is the strong attraction of the silent places, of the large tropic moons, and the splendor of the new stars; where the wanderer sees the awful glory of sunrise and sunset […]

Three Bears sans Goldilocks

MICHELE: Today’s presentation of “WTF is THAT?” from granddaughter Kaitlyn’s backyard in Boulder.  INDY: The only thing that’s missing is Goldilocks. Did the bears eat her? MICHELE: It’s Boulder, so if she was lactose-free and had no GMO’s, I’m sure they did.

QR Code Menus and Restaurants

The worst technology of the 21st century: QR code menus at restaurants. The best definition of technology: The ability to do more with less. Based off this definition, QR code menus at restaurants might be the worst technology ever made. QR code menus do the opposite of technology: They do less with more. You have […]

Robert Heinlein and Prejudice

“You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.” – Robert A. Heinlein

Nonny Mouse and Pavlov

MMRadio David Page

  What can business owners learn from America’s Michelin Star and James Beard award-winning chefs? David Page, creator of the mega-hit Food Network show Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives, has interviewed numerous world-class chefs including Dan Barber, Nancy Silverton, Jonathan Waxman, and Michael Stern for his new podcast that launches on August 27th. David says these culinary […]

Mediocrity

      “Mediocrity comes from having perfectly implemented the tried and true, traditional wisdom.”– The Wizard of Ads

Aldo Imagination

    “To those devoid of imagination, a blank place on the map is a useless waste; to others, the most valuable part.” – Aldo Leopold

Traveling Wilburys

You come fromDust. You will return toDust. That’s why I don’tDust. It might be someoneI Know. Speaking of dust, here is that grand ballad of existential angst from 1978 – Indy Beagle

Tiny Tribe House at Pooh Corner

A Whiter Shade of Pale

A Whiter Shade Of Pale” becomes utterly mesmerizing the moment Matthew Fisher’s Hammond organ pierces the air. Procol Harum’s singer Gary Brooker was responsible for writing the music, although Fisher’s organ part was so prominent that he also eventually received a songwriting credit after a protracted court battle. Keith Reid, who served as the band’s […]

Who Lived When

Walden and Charlotte’s Web

Aloha and RLS

Roy and Tiny Tribe with Names

MMRadio Georgia Lininger

  Becoming a children’s book publisher is not “sugar and spice and everything nice.” It is one of the toughest journeys an entrepreneur can take. When Georgia Lininger launched her children’s book imprint in January 2020, she quickly discovered that success was going to require more from her than sweet stories and colorful illustrations. Join […]

What Robert Louis Stevenson wrote for his epitaph

Under the wide and starry skyDig the grave and let me lieGlad did I live and gladly dieAnd I laid me down with a willThis be the verse you grave for meHere he lies where he longed to beHome is the sailor home from the seaAnd the hunter home from the hill

Hipster dude and the tiny tribe

Robert Louis Stevenson and Pirates

Robert Louis Stevenson on the island of Samoa where he died at the age of 44 from a lifelong lung deficiency. The woman with the necklace is his wife, Fanny. This photo was taken shortly before he died.

Aloha previews 2 pages from partner book

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Chinese Traditional Dye

The Tiny Tribe thanks Mike and Cathy Fleck for sending this to our attention.

Desert Drifter Grand Canyon

book_good_clients

Sid Fey Letter

Wear it, give it away, use it to create an act of kindness. Studies have shown that Kindness actually creates a chemical reaction resulting in reduced anxiety, wellbeing, & joy. It is a wonderful solution to bullying, discrimination, hatred, & fear. The pin is just an opportunity for us to shift the world on it’s […]

BradPitt_RonHoward_andMe

Brad Pitt, Ron Howard, and Me I never write click-bait headlines, but I wrote this one just to prove I can. Brad shines from Shawnee, Ron comes from Duncan, and I bailed from Broken Arrow. We’re all Okla-Homeboys. Now that my click-bait headline has done its job and convinced you to keep reading all the […]

MMRadio_Angie_Hyche

Angie Hyche is a clutter expert. Whether it is a storage room, garage, basement, self-storage unit, or your email inbox, Angie knows how to help you sort your possessions and your calendar. Angie is a professional organizer, helping a wide array of organizations and individuals clean up the chaos in their lives. She is also the author of […]

Calvin and Roy Laughlin

Babys First Laugh

    “When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.”― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

Baby’s first laugh

    While at LSU long ago, my friend Roy Laughlin went to an Indian reservation with his roommate who was 100% American Indian. Roy thought they were celebrating a baby’s first birthday — came to find out they were celebrating his first laugh — this is when they believe a child becomes fully human. […]

Desert Drifter Pueblo

Gold Mining

Artist: Sebastião Salgado (Brazilian, born 1944) Title: Serra Pelada, Brazil, 1986 Medium: Silver gelatin print Edition: 11 x 14 in. (27.9 x 35.6 cm.)9,500 USD 16 x 20 in. (40.6 x 50.8 cm.)11,000 USD 20 x 24 in. (50.8 x 61 cm.)13,000 USD 24 x 35 in. (61 x 88.9 cm.)22,000 USD

Fredrick Backman

[Video at the bottom of this page.]Good evening. My name is Fredrik Backman. I’m here tonight because my agent said that this would be good for my career. She said I need to learn how to speak in front of people. ‘It’ll be fun,’ she said. So I told her that I write books. I […]

Indy Beagle in a Pueblo

Flying Chair

Joe Davis and Wizard Academy

2 minutes of improvised music

Saturday in the park

Bali and Hai in the Park with Aloha

The Park

Jeffrey and Joe_2005 and 2024

Keith Richards and Richard Simmons

Found Item

Manley Miller and Richard Simmons

Todd Liles and the Tiny Tribe

Daniel Whittington and Keith Richards

Keith Richards and Richard Simmons

MMRadio Richard Behar and the Real Bernie Madoff

Bernie Madoff perpetrated the biggest Ponzi scheme in human history, and before he died in prison in 2021, he met Richard Behar face-to-face 3 times, had more than 50 phone conversations with him, and exchanged more than 300 emails. How did Bernie Madoff pull it off? Who were his accomplices? Why were his investors so […]

Desert Drifter

Get-Eco Marching Song

GetEco… G-E-T  E–C–OGetEco… They can really go.GetEco… for your sink-o.Fixed in a blink-o, you’ll think-o, Hooray! GetEco… G-E-T  E–C–OGetEco… You’ll be cool like snowGetEco… like an ice rink-oPuerto RICO, GetECO, Today! (GetEco.com provides plumbing and A/C and stuffto Columbus, Dayton, and Cincinatti, Ohio.)

Johnny Molson on Digital Ads

Johnny Molson has been one of the Wizard of Ads Partners for many years, and he will help you grow your business if you meet the following three conditions: 1. You and Johnny have to like each other and feel a connection.2. Johnny needs to be confident that your business has the potential to grow […]

Aloha and Impostor Syndrome

Mary Chapin Carpenter

Billy Joel My Life

Mark Twain on Tobacco

Concerning Tobaccoby Mark Twain (1893) As concerns tobacco, there are many superstitions. And the chiefest is this–that there is a STANDARD governing the matter, whereas there is nothing of the kind. Each man’s own preference is the only standard for him, the only one which he can accept, the only one which can command him. […]

Push and Pull Marketing

Greatest Female Vocalist of all Time

Paul and Julio

Bee Gees

Wichita lineman

God didnt make little green apples

The Wake of the Boat

Twenty-nine years ago, Carl Sagan wrote a book called The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (1995). One of the observations Carl shared in that book is particularly troubling: “One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. […]

MMRadio Dean Guida

If you are a client of Schwab, Fidelity, or Bank of America; if you fill your tank at Exxon; if you manage your finances with Intuit; or if you find yourself riding a bullet train in Japan, you can thank Dean Guida for making it possible. Dean launched his enterprise software business when he was […]

Dobie Gray and the Beat

Pennie and her sisters

Gotcha

Want Ads

walking gets boring

Exploring

Things I Should Tell You

  Lots of people have been asking me the same 3 questions. QUESTION ONE: “Who were your mentors?” Mentor is a word I never use. In my nose it smells of apprenticeship, that wafting, submissive aroma that arises from a servant who adores his master. By this definition, I have never had a mentor, but […]

Lyle Lovett Hunter S Thompson

Lyle Lovett Remembers Hunter S. Thompson Published by Entertainment Weekly on December 23, 2005 “I was a journalism major at Texas A&M, so Hunter was one of my heroes. When I found out he included me on his ”Honor Roll” list in his book Songs of the Doomed, I was stunned and honored. We became […]

MMRadio Nick-Anthony

Nick-Anthony Zamucen has launched four successful franchises: a pizza chain, a home care business, a crime scene cleaner, and a water and fire damage repair company. According to Nick-Anthony, there is a proven formula for running a successful franchise, whether you buy into someone else’s concept or decide to start a franchise of your own. […]

MLK and 1968 Riots

The 1968 Chicago riots were sparked in part by the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Rioting and looting followed, with people flooding out onto the streets of major cities, primarily in black urban areas. In Chicago itself, more than 48 hours of rioting left 11 Chicago citizens dead, 48 wounded by police gunfire, 90 policemen injured, and […]

Hunter S Thomson Young Radio Energy

Recorded Live in a single, unedited take while the band was waiting for the producer to arrive. No one knew the sound man was doing a sound check. But he accidentally recorded this unexpected, unrehearsed “Jam Session” improvisational masterpiece.

Hunter S Thompson End of the 60s

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