BetterBizBooks.com - June 2002 Newsletter

Hey there everyone! 

I hope things are going well and that each and every person has a great summer season. 

The June 2002 newsletter points to little new content on the website due in part to technical glitches that were incurred and the extensive amount of reading / planning I have been doing for "The Big Project."  A sample can be found via a link at the end of the newsletter.

I don’t want to get into the details of what happened but let’s just say I lost over a year’s worth of data I had collected.  Fortunately, for the website and its future development, I knew what data I needed and where to get it so I have recovered some 95% of the lost writings, quotes and data I wanted to share with everyone.  Unfortunately, the entire experience drained me of a lot of time and opportunities to write new reports. 

Friedrich Nietzsche once said, “What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.”  Additionally, Napolean Hill has once said, “Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.” 

I think those men were pretty smart guys and those words are great wisdom to live by.  The problems incurred are just a temporary roadblock for BetterBizBooks.com and the website’s development in the next few months.

Now that I have managed to ramble, despite saying I wasn’t going to do it, “What’s new on the website?”
 
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A New Look to the Website!
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1. Quotations -If you liked the two quotes from above you are going to love the quotes I plan on putting online in the next few months.  In the month of May I put up some great economist quotes as well as general business quotes.  Each group of quotes is going to be separated into different groups.  Click on the link below to see what is available and what will be online soon!
2. Table of Contents for my  U.S. Housing Report – A few people contacted me about the recently published report and wanted to know what was in it so I decided to show everyone the table of contents to the 54 page report.  This is to help people in finding out what kind of information is in the report before they decide whether or not to download the 3.4 Megabyte file, which can take some time on a 56k modem.
3. A New Home Page! - I redesigned the front page so that it will be more useful for those looking to find something on the website.  Additionally, you can find out if I am online (if you want to send me an instant message via yahoo messenger) since I put a script on the webpage too!
4. The month of July marked a major month in the development of the website:

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Articles
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May was a horrible computer month as my hard drive crashed...........Very little new content was added during the month of May.

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New Book Reviews
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I was quite disappointed with myself because I didn’t get any book reviews written last month but I will have at least four in the July 2002 Newsletter.  In the last month I have read some interesting books but I was quite happy about two business / economic history books I read and I will publish my analysis in the July newsletter.

Here is another tidbit of information for everyone.  John Steele Gordon has a new book coming out in June 2002 and Peter Drucker has a new book in July 2002.  For those that don’t know by now I am a HUGE Peter Drucker fan and I am anxiously awaiting his new book.  Once it is published I will let everyone know what I think about it.

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Book of the Month
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There was no “BetterBizBook of the Month” for June 2002 due to an oversight on my part.  The BetterBizBook of the Month for July will be The Essential Drucker by Peter Drucker.  On July 1, 2002 I will post my comments / detailed analysis as to why I think this book is truly a great work and worth reading by all.

For those that didn't check out Mystery of Capital by Hernando DeSoto (May 2002 suggested book) I have put my full length book review here.

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I am Currently Working on the Following:
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• TONS OF USEFUL LINKS - I am going to post about 50 interesting links in the next week or so.  Many of these are hyperlinks to online economic / philosophy texts but there are others I think some people may find useful.
• Technology & Telecommunications – A Brief Glance - July 2002 target
• Global Energy Review – Facts, Figures & Some Brief Comments - August 2002
• My Philosophy/History/Economic Project - My goal is to try and put together a report that interlinks how countries have been affected by 17th century - present philosophical thoughts.  Rousseau and "Social Contract", Hume on Property, Karl Marx on the Bourgeoise, etc.  The goal is to show how many of these philosophers and economists were products of their environment (they kept their eyes open) and then developed thoughts / insights that changed history.  I don't anticipate having this completely done until December 2002.I have published an example of the economic timeline I am constructing to show the overlap and dates in which the greatest economic thinkers lived.  This is part of my "BIG PROJECT" that I will have finished by the end of the year.  Eventually I will have another timeline for philosophy and for political figures.  I will integrate them together at some date to be determined so that people can click on Adam Smith and see what philosophers, politicians and historical / technological events may have impacted his analysis.  I am going to also link the political leaders together with the other data so that people can see the economic, social and philosophical backdrop that some of the world's leading political figures were operating under.  All of this is to eventually be available in a graphical format as I am a firm believer in the old adage "a picture is worth a thousand words."

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