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	<title>Breaking Down Convention</title>
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		<title>I&#8217;m Naive</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No, really, it's true. And so are you.
Humanity's number one biggest downfall is that we think we understand exponentially more than we do; we think technology can solve every problem, we trust people in positions higher than us to solve those problems, and we ignorantly accept that once we haven't heard about a problem in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.anthonyputignano.com/2011/04/05/im-naive/</link>
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		<title>3 Business Lessons from &#8220;The Social Network&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Social Network is an intriguing story about the early beginnings of Facebook. Although certain facts are in dispute, the movie is largely based in reality. And while many people are currently flocking to theaters for entertainment value, this film is filled with juicy business lessons. My top three:
1. Ideas are important. Execution more so.
The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.anthonyputignano.com/2010/10/03/3-business-lessons-from-the-social-network/</link>
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		<title>Technology Overload</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Don't blink. You may miss the latest must-have gadget, piece of software or technological convention. And without a doubt, you and your business will suffer because of it. Right?
Maybe. But probably not.
I know. A bit of an unexpected stance, coming from an entrepreneur in the web development industry. But in the past few years, I've [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.anthonyputignano.com/2010/09/20/technology-overload/</link>
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		<title>Why We Use CakePHP for Our Web Applications</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am on my way back from Chicago where I attended CakeFest, an annual conference for CakePHP web developers. I can go into depth about the great experiences I had this weekend. But instead, I'd like to divulge a bit about CakePHP itself. This article is definitely for the more tech-focused crowd, so if that's [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.anthonyputignano.com/2010/09/06/why-we-use-cakephp-for-our-web-applications/</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s About the Talent, Not the Tools</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Back in my high school and college days, I was big into playing guitar and singing. And I was also fascinated by the idea of recording music. Especially for fairly competent yet entirely mediocre artists like myself, recording offered the opportunity to take the songs that were impossible to play live and bring them to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.anthonyputignano.com/2010/08/29/its-about-the-talent-not-the-tools/</link>
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		<title>A New Corporate Identity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We've been undergoing a corporate identity refresh with DistiSuite over the summer, all culminating in the launch of our new sales site today!
Our Logo
First, we decided to get our logo re-designed. We vetted a lot of different designers for the task, but frankly, most didn't fit the bill. We wanted something clean, sleek modern, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.anthonyputignano.com/2010/08/19/a-new-corporate-identity/</link>
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		<title>Making Commitments to Yourself</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just finished reading Switch, by Chip Heath &#38; Dan Heath. It's a pretty comprehensive book about "how to change things when change is hard". There are a lot of great concepts discussed in this book, but one simple, effective trick they recommended really stuck out to me. I know it works because I do [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.anthonyputignano.com/2010/08/11/making-commitments-to-yourself/</link>
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		<title>The Catch-22 of Seeking Help During a Breaking Point</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When people are short on time, they tend to look for outside help in order to complete complicated projects as quickly and efficiently as possible. Money becomes less important than time. It's capitalism at its best.
In the past year, our business found and worked with a CPA, a lawyer, two freelance designers, one web hosting [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.anthonyputignano.com/2010/08/03/the-catch-22-of-seeking-help-during-a-breaking-point/</link>
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		<title>Haiti: Exemplifying the Value of Distribution</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was watching the news recently and there was a piece on CNN about Haiti's food crisis in the wake of January 2010's massive earthquake. Food crisis? How could this be? Didn't Americans and other generous countries around the world send enough food and money to last months, maybe years? Where did all of it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.anthonyputignano.com/2010/07/28/haiti-exemplifying-the-value-of-distribution/</link>
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		<title>The Importance of Vacation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I'm currently in Wildwood, NJ spending some quality time with my family and fiancée. Wildwood is a beach town, and is one of the rare ones left that doesn't have corporate names splattered everywhere, paid beaches and chain hotels. It's a town that's forever stuck in the 50s - in a good way. From the style of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.anthonyputignano.com/2010/07/22/the-importance-of-vacation/</link>
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