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I’m currently finishing up a website that took one month build.

Now, it’s a pretty slick website, with some cool flash graphics, normal graphics work, and other site navigation functions.

And before I awarded the project, I shopped around a number of web development design firms - in Australia and the United States.

The quote price range was between $3,500 - $7,000 USD.

I brought the project in for… wait for it…

$460 USD

And no, I didn’t use an Indian child labor web design firm.

In fact, my designer is American born and bred - he’s very talented, takes direction well, and even includes many of his own concepts.

How did I achieve this?

I attribute it to something I call “Pipes’n'Fields” Theory.

The basics of which is thus:

In life, everyone is born into an enormous field. And in this field is where 99% of people will stay for the rest of their lives.

They are comfortable there; all their friends are there, and besides, they have no knowledge that anything could exist beyond this field. Most want to stay dead in the center of it, and they can often be heard talking negatively about any person who is curious about things beyond the field.

But there’s something those people don’t realize. Something that can never be taught to them, or explained to them. And that is, way out on the edges of the field are pipes. Small pipes. So small in fact that they blend into the horizon, and make it look as though nothing is there.

There are no markers on the front of the pipes though. There are no maps. The pipes lead away from the field, to who knows where.

Many who have found the pipes, and climbed into a few of them expected them to lead to a bigger, better field. Others who found the pipes decided to try and sell fake maps of the pipes, and promised the would-be pipe venturers a safe journey to the fields they had been dreaming about for years.

The truth is though, no one has ever really documented the pipes. They are too vast, too complex, and seem to change shape and destination depending on who is climbing through them.

Some lead to great fields, filled with lush green grass and sunflowers, populated by only a few other people. Many seem to lead to dank underground sewers, whose slippery slopes do not lend themselves to climbing back out easily.

But wherever they go, only those who know they exist, and have traversed through them, understand that a person in the main field can only ever be as smart as that field lets them be. They may be unequaled geniuses of the main field, and know its physics, geography, climate, and everything else - and yet - cannot make the same plays, and calculations, as the less intelligent pipe traveler.

Wherever you are right now, whatever your background: whether you’ve been labeled smart or stupid for your whole life, remember: you’re only as smart as your knowledge of the pipes, and the fields (or sewers) they lead to.

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