When you meet someone, you need to have a super power. If you don’t, you’re just another handshake. Don’t say, “Hi, I’m Don, I’m from Cleveland.” Instead, try, “Hi, I’m Don, I tell stories that spread.” It’s not about touting yourself or coming on too strong. It’s about making the introduction meaningful. If I don’t [...]
A moment of perfect synchronicity ends as it begins: Reading The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. I seem to recall encountering a vague description of Haruki Murakami’s work, some point in the pervasive past, seemed like it would be a good idea (and yes, this was long before you had heard about it if you are the [...]
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Those who cannot do, manage. Those who cannot manage, teach. Those who cannot teach, do (poorly). Take a look around – chances are that you are either capable, in middle management, a teacher, and/or useless.
… the knowledge among lenders that their money will ultimately be returned, no matter what, clearly brings a terrible downside. It keeps the lenders from asking tough questions about how their money is being used. Looters — savings and loans and Texas developers in the 1980s; the American International Group, Citigroup, Fannie Mae and the [...]
The paranoid spokesman sees the fate of conspiracy in apocalyptic terms—he traffics in the birth and death of whole worlds, whole political orders, whole systems of human values. He is always manning the barricades of civilization. He constantly lives at a turning point. Like religious millenialists he expresses the anxiety of those who are living [...]
I’m sure the first time was a fluke… but it keeps happening.
Imagine that a person is terminally ill. He or she would not be able to buy a life insurance policy with a huge death benefit. Obviously, third parties could not purchase policies on the soon-to-be-dead person’s life. Yet something like that occurred in the financial world. – What Cooked the World’s Economy?* It wasn’t your [...]
There currently are 400 U.S. institutions and 15,000 U.S. individuals authorized to possess bioweapons agents. Security measures at the overwhelming majority of the 400 U.S. institutions that possess bioweapons agents are inadequate. Very few of the 400 institutions have comprehensive video monitoring of work areas. Very few of the 400 institutions have a two-person rule [...]
“I am out of work now, to be honest with you, and money is very tight for us,” one man declared on a recent phone call after he was apprised of his late mother-in-law’s $280 credit card bill. He promised to pay $15 a month. . . . New hires at DCM train for three [...]
