If this is your first time here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed. You may also want to checkout our list of organizations and books if you want to learn more about what this site is about.Most of us who live around Fayetteville and consume a substantial amount of coffee, tea or juice (or is that just me?) go to Arsaga’s at least once a week. And for good reason. The coffee is great, and even better now that they are roasting it themselves. The atmosphere …

I titled this rather introspective post as I did because of something that has pretty much been the recurring theme (and perhaps running gag) in my mind lately. That “something” being the idea of living, and in particular, doing business in such a way that I’d want others to live and do business. I’ll be honest, and I fear vulnerable to rebuke, when I say what I have increasingly desired to see in other businesses most, I have only recently begun to implement here.
I’m very quickly getting ahead of myself …

Recently I purchased the book The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth by Benjamin M. Friedman at Nightbird Books. I planned on reading it during my recovery from surgery. It has been a good read but has not quite answered the questions I had hoped it would. What I was looking for, and still am, was discussion of the title’s topic, only on a smaller scale, addressing regional concerns.