His name is Oskar. He's Rastafarian. I met him when I first went to Costa Rica in 2004 and watched him trying to sell his paintings day after day on the beach, sweating, struggling to speak English to
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I don't know if you've ever been to Costa Rica, but contrary to what you may think, one of the greatest things here is not the beach. Oh no. Definitely not. Nor is it the men.
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Keep reading →* * Facebook * Twitter * Buffer * Google+ * LinkedIn * Gmail I’ve been way too serious lately. I just decided. I was about to write a really intelligent post on finding your target market, and then, suddenly, just decided…fuck it. Who wants to
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Keep reading →Yo. Just wrote an update to my Behind Closed Doors group, and thought it might be useful to share with you here, too. (Behind Closed Doors is my insider group where several times a week I put out quick-hit
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