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Keep it simple: own as little as you can get away with, schedule everything, keep a notebook, don't let technology enslave you.
Blake Mycoskie
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Blake Mycoskie
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: August 26
Entrepreneur
Texas
United States
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