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![nerd<\/a>, but I get the basics and know how to fnd what I need and hire out what I refuse to do. I’m not good at design and that’s the next hurdle I have to hop over. I’m ok with simple and ugly if it’s functional, but I realize the need for style and form to go along with function.<\/p>\nThis is not at all what I wanted to write about; I just swerved a bit and I’ll try to work it in — I’m in free-association mode here lately. Recently, I wrote on Bigger Pockets <\/a>about “information” and ended with the transformation to “knowledge sharing”.<\/p>\nI’m grateful to all the online players who have\u00a0gained knowledge\u00a0and who share their knowledge freely, it’s truly a new world of learning processes that we’re entering. Those who are eager to learn have resources galore at their fingertips. The problem is time management\u00a0and discipline. Time management and discipline\u00a0have never been so important. 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