The NYT can’t understand corporate finance [link to come; post underway], but they can do headlines: “Hijacker Overpowered on Norway-Turkey Flight.” I guess we did all learn from the heroes on United 93. “Never again” is as good a motto as “let’s roll.” It stands to all of us to do something, perhaps not everyday,…
One more reason being a great planner isn’t always so good: If only she’d known that finished is the new perfect. If only she’d known that planning is the gateway drug to procrastination. From Scott Ginsberg. Have you used detailed planning, as “legitimate” meta-work, to tell yourself you’ve been working while still not getting anything…
It is certainly true that what a person is determines how he writes or speaks. But the converse is also true, at least in part. In the struggle to give clear and natural and forceful and sometimes beautiful expression to one’s experience, one becomes a more honest and genuine and decisive and imaginative person. Ellsworth…
Several years ago, I had an idea for a tool I’ve called the “exonet.” The name derives from both being separate and distinct from the intranet/extranet and from the idea that our DNA is typically divided into introns and exons by geneticists. (The introns are the parts between the “genes” that don’t, strictly speaking, code…