Invite a few friends over for a little front-yard BBQ while your garage sale is happening. Because high-traffic garage sales get the most traffic. It's "the rich get richer" principle at work. If no one's there, it must be because it's bad. If it's hoppin', I want to see what they've got. So fake it. It'll work.

We're always surprised when we have dreams about people we've thought about that day. Maybe because the thought only lasted for a moment. Yet, just because our conscious thought forgets, the brain synapses that connected are still fresh, even later than night. But why do those synapses make it into our dreams? Because the hunter-gatherer role of your brain is for thin-slicing a situation. Quickly understanding the elements around you in order to make instant decisions. Your brain tries to create a full story based on the information it is. Even when we're sleeping and have no new information coming in. That's why you end up in your old house or high school, because it may be the only place that makes sense with the cast of characters dancing in your head. It's the same way your brain works throughout your waking life. It's why we all think we're so smart. Because our brains have made "sense" out of the infinitesimally small amount of information we have, and made a story out of it. Based on the foolish bit of information we have. Help your brain out. Visit your local library.

This statue by Jens Glaschiot contains the inscription, "I'm sitting on the back of a man. He is sinking under the burden. I would do anything to help him. Except stepping down from his back." It's a wonderful work of art. And fascinating to me how so many different political parties assume Glaschiot's words back their opposing causes. Speaking of which, I am now a regular contributor to the wonderful site, humblelibertarian.com. Go check out my first two posts about Sarah Palin and Spock.

Kids don't need motivation to want pizza. It's a natural favorite straight from birth. But how do you differentiate yourself as a pizza place to children among your dozens of competitors? If you're not Chuck E. Cheese and don't have 100s of video games and ball pits at your disposal, what can you do to make kiddies want to come to you? Make your pizza blue. 10 cents in organic food coloring. Add it to the dough. Make the dough look like hot-blue play dough, but taste the exact same. Hot blue dough, white cheese, red pepperoni. Still color-coordinates. Still looks good. All things being equal, if you're a kid, wouldn't you want the blue pizza?

During my childhood, it seemed possible to make it in this world as a single-income family. Nowadays, that idea seems more and more improbable. So, for women who are hoping to be at least a partial stay-at-home mom, when choosing a career path during college, doesn't it make sense to intentionally choose one that offers future flexibility and part-time options?

My friend is currently trying to sell his home. Like many of us, he bought high and hates the idea of having to sell low. So, he prays for the miraculous. For God to be gracious and have someone come knocking who loves the house and wants to buy it for well above market value. In essence, he's praying that God screw over some idiot. Now, of course, he didn't even think about that side of the prayer when praying. But, once you think about that side, it's a little harder to pray for it isn't it?

I love all of my entrepreneurial friends. Frequent contributor and long-time friend, Jarrett Harris, lives in Manhattan with his insanely creative wife Emily, whom we had the pleasure of staying with during our recent trip to New York City. Emily is a part of the fashion industry in NYC, and has had the opportunity to work alongside some of the big names in the business. With a unique sense of style, and self-described as being "inspired by Midwestern pricing and my chic New York friends", Emily has just launched her very own fashion line. Her designs are absolutely wonderful, and I can tell this is the start of something really big. Go check out her designs!

#38. Gerald Ford

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According to the Copenhagen Consensus of 2008, micro-nutrients should be our #1 economic priority in terms of giving. Feeding micro-nutrients to the 140 million malnourished children around the globe produces the "most possible good per dollar".