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- ArticleRyan's Take
Should Texas Set Its Own Minimum Wage Above $7.25?
Texas still uses the $7.25 federal minimum wage. Here are the strongest arguments for a higher state floor and for letting local labor markets set pay.
- ArticleBusiness & Technology
Kodak Invented the Digital Camera. Then It Protected the Past.
Kodak built the first self-contained digital camera in 1975. Its story shows why seeing the future is easier than building a business willing to enter it.
- ArticleRebuild
Free Beans and Chili Every Day Since 1983
The Butcher Shop in Longview has been family owned since 1983 and gives beans and chili away every day. That is hospitality, not marketing. Here is the test.
- ArticleRebuild
The Bakery That Published What It Cannot Guarantee
Taste and Sea Bakery in Longview uses 100% gluten free ingredients, then tells customers its kitchen is not a gluten free facility. Why that warning works.
- ArticleOpinion
Should Texas Stop Employers From Asking What You Made Before?
Should Texas employers be barred from asking job applicants about past pay? Here are the strongest arguments for disclosure limits and employer choice.
- ArticleRebuild
The business that needed me in the room
Wholesale Universe stopped when I stopped. That is not bad luck, it is a design flaw. Why every system I build now runs in a room I am not standing in.
- ArticleBusiness & Technology
The Broken Laser Pointer That Proved the Market Was There
In September 1995, the first item sold on the site that became eBay was a broken laser pointer. The unlikely sale proved a marketplace could exist.
- ArticleRyan's Take
Should Texas Ban Home Insurers From Rejecting a House Because of Roof Age Alone?
Texas is moving against roof-age-only insurance decisions. Here are the strongest arguments for homeowner protection and accurate risk-based underwriting.
- ArticleRebuild
Three Characters Taught the Internet to Smile
On September 19, 1982, Scott Fahlman proposed :-) as a joke marker. The tiny fix solved a human problem that better networks could not solve alone.
- ArticleOpinion
Should Texas Require the Real Price Everywhere It Is Advertised?
Federal rules require upfront prices for tickets and short-term lodging. Should Texas extend all-in pricing to more ads, or leave fees to markets?
- ArticleRebuild
The First Electronic Television Image Was One Straight Line
On September 7, 1927, Philo Farnsworth transmitted a simple line with an all-electronic television system. The tiny proof still shapes modern media.
- ArticleRebuild
The Grocery Store That Let Shoppers Serve Themselves
Piggly Wiggly changed grocery shopping in 1916 by letting customers serve themselves. The deeper business lesson is about redesigning the whole path.
- ArticleThe Work
The Line Almost Nobody Publishes
Don and Patti Nichols publish every line of a Belize medical mission budget, including the freight bill that is the biggest number on the page. Why the ugly line makes the rest believable.
- ArticleRebuild
The first hundred dollars
The first hundred dollars Wholesale Universe made taught me more than any number after it. Here is the exact seven step playbook to earn yours this month.
- ArticleRebuild
The Plumber Who Tells You to Go Get Other Estimates
Streety Plumbing prints Master Plumber License M-38762 on its home page, then tells you to get multiple estimates. Here is the seven question hire check.
- ArticleBehind the scenes
Build the boring system first
Intake, follow-up, records, backups. The unglamorous plumbing I build before anything pretty, with the simplest free version of each written out for you.
- ArticleRyan's Take
Should Texas Make App Stores Verify Every User's Age?
Texas now enforces app-store age checks and parental approval for minors. Is that smart child protection, or a costly privacy and speech burden on everyone?
- ArticleTexas & Community
Should Texas Make It Easier to Repair the Devices You Own?
Texas has enacted a right-to-repair law for many consumer devices. Here is what it covers, what it excludes, and the strongest case on each side.
- ArticleRebuild
Most of Building SellerProof Has Been Saying No
The most important file in this build is the list of things the software will never do. Why scope discipline beats feature count, and how to write your own not-doing list.
- ArticleRebuild
We Put "This Is Not a Get Rich Quick Scheme" on Our Own Sales Page
Wholesale Universe publishes the number nobody publishes: up to a year to ramp. Ryan Nichols on why the uncomfortable number belongs on the sales page, not the fine print.
- ArticleEast Texas Business
East Texas Business Spotlight: Robbie and Tracy Shoults of Bear Creek Smokehouse
Meet Bear Creek Smokehouse co-owners Robbie and Tracy Shoults and learn how the Marshall-area family business has grown since 1943.
- ArticlePolitics
Trump’s New Defense Supply-Chain Order: What Changes, What It Targets, and What Is Still Unknown
What Trump’s July 20, 2026 defense supply-chain executive order requires, its deadlines, covered critical materials, foreign-supplier rules, and what remains unknown.
- ArticleRebuild
I Quit Calling It a Comeback
A comeback means going back, and that life is gone. Why aiming at the old life is a race against a ghost, and what build forward means instead.
- ArticleThe Work
They Gave Away Courses Three and Four
The LeadFlow Pro Operator Academy gives away two of ten courses, and not the first two. A lesson in choosing your free tier by dependency, not by convention.
- ArticleThe Work
Their Calculator Quotes a Higher Price Than Their Sales Page
A Longview dental school built a free tuition planner that quotes $500 above its own sales page, then tells students how to pay less. Why that works.
- ArticleBehind the scenes
Whoever Owns the Domain Owns the Business
Your domain is the address every link, card and search result points at. Three ways business owners lose it, and how to check yours in about four minutes.
- ArticleThe Work
A Website Cannot Grade a Pallet
Gideon Commerce grades a liquidation manifest and prints a confidence score beside the estimate. Plus two labels on my own site that do not match their math.
- ArticleThe Work
The $197 Product That Tells You Not to Buy Software
I sell business systems, and my $197 follow-up product says you need no software. Leads are not lost because they were bad. They are lost to the silence after.
- ArticleThe Work
I Built the Scheduler Instead of Renting One
I have 837 posts queued to publish themselves with no API keys, no subscription, and nobody else holding the switch. Here is how it works, and the bug I found this morning that every business has a version of.
- ArticleBehind the scenes
Build the Skip Into It
A system that cannot output zero will output garbage. How to give any recurring report, form or automation permission to come back empty and say why.
- ArticleThe Work
They Did Not Discount the Program. They Built a Second One.
Premier Dental Academy answered a price objection with a second offer instead of a discount. The offer design lesson, plus three things I need to fix.
- ArticleThe Work
I Was Wrong About Where My Money Comes From
Five sales in a row said one channel made all my money. The sixth proved me wrong. What I found when I pulled my own attribution data again.
- ArticleThe Work
Three Dollars Buys Three Pages Of A Transcript
Nobody has a feeling about three dollars. Everybody has a feeling about three pages of a transcript. Pricing in units of work, plus four things I got wrong.
- ArticleBehind the scenes
A Missed Call Needs a Useful Text, Not an Apology
A missed-call text should reduce uncertainty and create a next step. Use this five-part response rule to recover the conversation without sounding automated.
- ArticleBehind the scenes
Let Them Try It Before You Ask for Anything
Most service sites go straight from a claim to a form. Build the missing fourth state: a live demo that produces a real result and costs the visitor nothing, not even their data.
- ArticleThe Work
Twenty Seven Photos, and Two Thirds of Them Are Concrete
A four page washing site in Hallsville built the page most service businesses skip. I counted every job on it, and the gallery says something the homepage does not.
- ArticleBehind the scenes
Label the Fake Stuff Fake
Invented testimonials and stock logos read as fake because they are never specific. Two fixes: label the sample, and make one real thing real.
- ArticleRebuild
Voyager 1 Left Earth Carrying a Record for Strangers
Voyager 1 launched September 5, 1977, carrying a gold-plated record with 115 images and greetings in 55 languages. Its bold message still travels.
- ArticleThe Work
A School Published Every Dental Office Within Fifty Miles
Premier Dental Academy of Longview published 232 verified dental offices across 28 East Texas towns, free, with no rankings. Why that directory is the most valuable page on the site.
- ArticleBusiness & Technology
AI Arbitrage Is Not a Dirty Word. Here Is What You Are Actually Paying For.
A $500 website costs almost nothing to build now. So what is the client paying for? Both sides of the argument and the one question to ask any builder in 2026.
- ArticleEast Texas Business
I Have a Quarter Million Leads and Cannot Afford to Email Them
A 200,000 address list, $500 to $1,000 a month to send, and a five year old consent problem. The case for and against hitting send, with CAN-SPAM facts.
- ArticleBehind the scenes
My Cost Per Lead Tripled Inside a Fifty Mile Circle
A client lead cost went from $15 to $46 with no change to the ad, page, or offer. The audience ran out. Real numbers, the fix, and when the fix is wrong.
- ArticleHistory, Business & Technology
The First Solar Car Was 15 Inches Long
In 1955, William Cobb demonstrated a 15-inch solar car. The Sunmobile was too small to drive, but big enough to prove an idea could move forward.
- ArticleRyan's Take
Should Texas Publish Job and Wage Results for Every Workforce Grant?
Texas funds customized workforce training for private employers. Should every grant publish completion, placement, retention, and wage results for taxpayers?
- ArticleMotivation & Hard Truth
An Excuse Can Be True and Still Keep You Stuck
A real obstacle can explain why you stopped without deciding how long you stay there. Use this 12 minute audit to separate facts from surrender today.
- ArticleTexas Education
Did Texas Get the New Personal Finance Graduation Requirement Right?
Texas now requires new ninth graders to earn a half credit in personal finance. Here are the strongest arguments for the mandate and against the rule.
- ArticleThe Work
The Objection Was Never the Tuition
A dental school published thirteen free tools, including one for childcare and bills and one that is a script for talking to your family. That is what a real funnel looks like.
- ArticleThe Work
A Handful of Messages a Year
The most honest signup form I have built promises two texts a trip. Name the trigger, name the ceiling, then be boring about keeping it. The follow up lesson in one sentence.
- ArticleThe Work
Why Not Just Use Wix? Here Is the Honest Answer.
Sometimes you should. But a builder sells you one stage of eight, and then you buy the other seven separately, forever.
- ArticleRebuild
We Ran Out of Teachers Before We Ran Out of Students
The dental academy bottleneck moved from students to teachers. So we published the pay, the commitment, and every dollar an applicant will ever be asked for.
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