Jesse Bilsten

Petra of SLO
I recently saw your link over on Keith Byrd’s San Luis Obispo Real Estate website.  I actually tried one of your pizza’s recently and was quite impressed.  It was very good and although a bit more expensive than I’d like for a pizza different enough to warrant me buying a second one sometime soon. [...]

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Rivoli recounts a time in her life when she mapped out the family tree of a T-shirt (one she sees on vacation in Florida) based on an urge born from a 1999 World Trade Organization protest question: “Who made your T-shirt?” She does a wonderful job engaging the reader by constantly instilling [...]

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Jared Diamond looks into how societies fail or “collapse”.  And by collapse he means “…a drastic decrease in human population size and/or political/economic/social complexity, over a considerable area, for an extended time.”  Straight to the point and extremely engaging to read as I was hoping.  I was impressed by Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs [...]

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Thomas L. Friedman originally captured my attention on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart. He talked briefly about the book and what it covered: How the world is becoming flat through the sharing of information. He proposes that there are many “flattener’s” that make sharing information easier. Ten to be exact:

The Berlin wall [...]