Old Flames
12/11/2018 One of the nice things about my job is that I will occasionally get a letter from an old friend who is responding…
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Painting By Numbers
08/29/2018 Robots and artificial intelligence (AI) are often thought of as basically the same thing, probably because science fiction movies and TV shows have…
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Change Partners
06/08/2018 A few years ago, a business friend of mine called me to ask for advice. Perhaps advice is the wrong word. She called…
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Higher Love
2/21/18 When we took over the publication of this magazine in 1998, one of the decisions I needed to make was what to…
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Touch of Grey
I would like to think of myself as rational and reasonably sophisticated, but if I’m going to be honest I have to admit that…
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Feedback
The first “real” job I had after college was sales associate in the sporting goods department of a large downtown department store. It was…
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The Way We Were
There are many ways to look at America, and it seems like most of them have been tried. People attempt to figure out who…
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Long Time Gone
My first job in publishing was at a company that produced, among other things, the leading magazine for elementary school teachers. It had a…
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You Get What You Paid For
Years ago I wrote a number of articles about Walmart for this and other magazines. I’m sure my earlier pieces included a lot of…
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Things That Go Bump
When you fly on commercial airlines a lot, your subconscious mind learns to recognize sounds that are normal and sounds that are unusual, even…
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