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I got an email from a fellow named Bob Baldwin.

I didn't know Bob Baldwin.

And I was talking about how I roll over my to-do list each day to the next day

and how I enjoy marking things off as done.

And there have been studies actually done,

business classes for

MBA courses about the psychological effect of checking a box. A lot of people will put a box

next to an item that needs to be done, are marking through an item when it's done. And in fact,

I've read from multiple gurus on business organization and personal improvement

that you shouldn't delete things as you complete them.

You should mark through them so that at the end of a day you can see what you've done,

and it gives you a sense of accomplishment which tends to

drive people harder you read much about the psychology of distance runners like the david

gagan's kind of guys in the games they have to play to push through the pain and and i think each of us

is different but but i do find it to be interesting. Anyway, so I saw that his signature line was

Bob Baldwin, CEO of CNG for compressed natural gas, the number for America, CNG for America.com.

And so I went to the website and I started looking at it. Well, it's pretty interesting. It's an

alternative fuel, much like an electric vehicle would be an alternative energy source. And so we emailed back and forth about the economics of the

business and how he got into it. And who else do you know who does this? And I thought it was rather

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