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You might be wondering: **What is a Main Street business?**
It’s a small, local business—typically run by mom and pop—that involves minimal intellectual property and provides a needed product or service. I’m talking about car washes, laundromats, vending machines, storage centers, repair shops, pack-and-ship centers, porta-potty rentals, landscaping, electrical services, bookkeeping, carpet cleaning, tiling and grouting, plumbing, pet grooming, and HVAC installation. These are the modest yet profitable businesses that most people overlook.
Main Street Millionaire
Codie Sanchez
In 1905, he travelled to Algeria to observe a total eclipse, but he failed to heed the maximum exposure time and damaged the cornea of his left eye. When they removed the patch he had been forced to wear for weeks, he noticed a shadow the size of a two-mark coin in his visual field, which was apparent even when his eyes were closed. The doctors told him the damage was irreversible. To his friends, who worried about the effects eventual blindness might have on an astronomer’s career, he said—only partly in jest—that he, like Odin, had sacrificed one eye to be able to see further with the other.
When We Cease to Understand the World
Benjamín Labatut
This painting by Caravaggio, Master of Light, is one of the most revolutionary in history.
Why? Notice the empty space left at the table for us.
Sit down at it, and a strange symbol reveals itself... 🧵 https://t.co/pwlopN5K0K
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