Copy this!
by Paul Orfalea, Ann Marsh · first published 2005
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Check out http://www.amazon.com/Copy-This-Hyperactive-Dyslexic-Compani... and don't be afraid to ask for help. You don't have to be a one man shop.
on “Ask HN: I feel my dream slipping away” ↗That is easily disproved. A good counterexample is in the book Copy This by Paul Orfalea. He had trouble in school and couldn't hold a job so he started a copy place. This became Kinko's after his nickname and grew large in part because of his systematic way of having employees…
on “Trump temporarily drops tariffs to 10% for most countries” ↗…good read Elon Mush by Ashlee Vance - need I say more The Hard Thing about Hard Things By Ben Horowitz The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg - probably need to deeply absorb this - a lot of good stuff Copy This! By Paul Orfalea - another good "small business" entrepreneur book The E-Myth Revisited By Michael Gerber - 2nd time read. Got more out of it this time. The People's Tycoon (Ford) by Steven Watts -…
on “Ask HN: Books you read in 2015?” ↗This can happen, but Paul "Kinko" Orfalea's book "Copy This!" goes into a lot of detail about how it makes sense to care about employees as people and doing so actually contributes greatly to the bottom line. His company "Kinko's Copies" is not the greatest tech…
on “Ask HN: Anyone doing some absurd stuff after getting laid off?” ↗Paul Orfalea, founder of Kinko's, also has Dyslexia and ADHD. https://www.amazon.com/Copy-This-Hyperactive-Dyslexic-Compan...
on “How a CEO with Dyslexia and ADHD Runs His Company” ↗