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The Fuel Surcharge That Never Fades
Examining how oil shocks and “sticky” corporate margins create permanent cost shifts for small businesses.
Apr 13
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Dave Miller
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Main Steet HALO Businesses
Why many main street businesses already have the secret sauce to thrive in the AI era.
Apr 7
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Dave Miller
3
March 2026
Silver Linings in the Smoke
Losing your house shows you who your friends are. Thankfully, we have a lot of them.
Mar 30
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Dave Miller
5
Unfiltered Ownership #1
Real stories of what running a brewery is like
Mar 24
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Dave Miller
3
The Fed is Performing Acupuncture with a Pitchfork
Relief and pain are neighbors in this economy—where a cut could save a job but reignite the very fire that burned the consumer in the first place.
Mar 19
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Dave Miller
2
The Great Social Snap-Back
What if AI pushback gives us the opposite of social atrophy?
Mar 17
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Dave Miller
6
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Nightmares Are Dreams, Too.
The 20% of Entrepreneurship Nobody Talks About
Mar 11
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Dave Miller
4
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February 2026
The Great Social Atrophy
How the Confluence of the AI Workplace, Remote Everything, and Social Decline Will Kill the Happy Hour
Feb 26
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Dave Miller
4
The Art of the Fumble
It's okay to not know what the hell you are doing.
Feb 21
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Dave Miller
5
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The Experience Treadmill
When successful events disrupt the the operation
Feb 15
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Dave Miller
6
1
The Double Standard of the Algorithm
The High Cost of Being Seen: Why visible AI is "gross" for small biz while hidden AI is the standard for everyone else.
Feb 8
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Dave Miller
5
1
The Vaccine of Difficulty
Why Business Owners Need to Seek the Struggle
Feb 2
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Dave Miller
3
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