Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Manufacturing Scheduling: How to Build a System That Eliminates Bottlenecks
Manufacturing is about production, and production revolves around making sure that you can turn raw materials into a finished product. Among the most important facets of the production process is time. How do you make sure all of these moving parts operate simultaneously so that everyone arrives at the end goal, which is the finished…
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Sign Manufacturing Software
The sign industry is much more complicated than it might appear, and involves several steps from the conception of the sign to the installation. This is why, as a sign manufacturer, the better the software is, the better your production standards will be. Here at Method, we’ve been in the sign game for over a…
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Should You Create Your Own CRM? How To Do It
At some point, businesses will begin to scale, and those mundane tasks that were handled with ease before start to become ever so burdensome on the operations of a business. When this point arrives, many business leaders will ask themselves; Should I invest in software for customer relationship management, otherwise known as a CRM? And…
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Manufacturing Cost Estimating
Manufacturing is about margins, and there is no way to reap the benefits of good margins without proper forecasting of production costs. Without manufacturing costs estimation, there can be no forecast. Although we are creating products for other people to use, many don’t realize how numbers-oriented the manufacturing process really is. At Method, we’ve been…
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The ROI of AI: A Practical Framework for Leaders in 2026
In the business world, particularly the one that exists today, metrics matter and they matter a lot. A stock can go down, and move down fast if earnings don’t beat expectations, even if the company is incredibly profitable and growing. When looking at the incomings and outgoings on a company’s spreadsheet, the one question is…
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Education Grants Explained: Opportunities, Access, and How They Shape Student Success
Throughout human history, we human beings have been in a scramble for resources; first food, then energy, then a whole host of other items that have propelled us into the modern age. Resources these days are not just the natural ones that come out of the ground; in most cases, the most important resources in…
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How Employers Can Reduce Meeting Pollution
Work today is absolutely nothing like work even 10 years ago. Hybrid or totally remote work has taken the world by storm, and whether you feel it was pandemic or tech-driven, it’s here to stay. Somewhere along the remote work journey, meetings multiplied faster than ever, resulting in overwhelming “meeting pollution.” In this guide, we’ll…
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ERP for Small Manufacturing Companies: The 2025 Guide
If you’ve ever wandered onto a factory floor and glanced at all the moving parts, you might think to yourself that choosing an ERP that can handle all of that can seem like the most daunting of tasks. But how important is choosing an ERP? Those with smart business acumen will probably come to the…
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Helping Underserved Communities with Financial Education
It seems these days, more and more of the wealth in the world is trickling towards the top. The only way to stop that from continuing to happen is to make sure the youth of America, no matter where they are from, have the same access to financial education that everyone else does. This holds…
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Guide to Trauma Informed Practices
When teaching teens and young adults, it’s important to grasp that you are not just dealing with facts and numbers. You are dealing with the overall human experience, which is linked to memories and emotions that affect how young people see the world. Some grow up with security and a white picket fence, but others…
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