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Commentary by Michael Wade, consultant, speaker, and author of "Pilate's Magician."
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Old Dog Teaches Class
Today, I'm teaching a workshop on Equal Employment Opportunity. It has long been one of my most popular classes, possibly due to a mixture of fast-paced case examples, humor, and low expectations. I've built an entire career on the last item. Bear with me. I'll be back soon.
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Signs of Weirdness
"I haven't read a book in forty years." "We never watch black-and-white movies." "Who was Spencer Tracy?" [Photo by Sean Benesh at Unsplash]
- The Canary Islands Have Always Been on My List
- In My Stack
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A Quiet Pleasure
A quiet pleasure takes place in Arizona when we hear that the rest of the nation is changing its clocks.
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Your Own Weather
The Sovereign Professional has an important reminder from Steve Pressfield. My older brother could have used that approach the other day as heavy rain caused floods in Central Arizona. His pastures were filled, the cattle were out in the water, and all of his neighbors left for…
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Great Painters of the American West
Frederic Remington Charles M. Russell Maynard Dixon Ed Mell Thomas Moran George Catlin Howard Terpning Albert Bierstadt Mian Situ [Photo by Jake Johnson for Unsplash+]
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Our AI Future?
The most fundamental fact about current AIs is that they are grown, not crafted . It is not like how other software gets made - indeed it is closer to how a human gets made, at least in some important ways. Namely, engineers understand the process that results in an AI, but do…
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Find Something Beautiful Today
[Photo by Bernhard at Unsplash]
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Memorable Fictional Characters from Novels
Sydney Carton, Natasha Rostova, Tom Joad, Raylan Givens, Phileas Fogg, Rutherford Calhoun, Skink, Atticus Finch, Hercule Poirot, Long John Silver, Tom Jones, Miss Jane Pittman, Scarlett O'Hara, Jackson Lamb, Madame Defarge, Sir Harry Flashman, George Smiley, Sam Weller, Hannibal…
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Happy Halloween!
The scariest novel I have ever read is Ghost Story by Peter Straub. [Photo by Maryam Sicard at Unsplash+]
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The Busy Mr. Bate
It does not surprise me that The Man Who Never Sleeps is also an artist . Compared to him, I am a towering castle of sloth.
- Fiscal Update
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First Paragraph
Shortly before Easter in the year 1188 CE, an English archbishop of Canterbury went to Wales on a recruitment drive. Thousands of miles away, war had broken out in the eastern Mediterranean and the archbishop, whose name was Baldwin of Forde, had been tasked with recruiting…
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Slow Horses
Read the books by Mick Herron. Watch the series starring Gary Oldman. Great stuff.
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The Global Antimanagerial Revolution
Elite rule within liberal democracies has been noted for many decades, with few analyses more insightful on this score than James Burnham's 1941 study, The Managerial Revolutio n (which influenced, among others, George Orwell as he was writing 1984 ). Burnham described this…
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Cultural Offering's 9 Books
Here is Kurt's excellent list . I'm still thinking about mine.
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Poems, Novels, and Values
I was thumbing through an old and treasured book that I probably snared at a rummage sale while in grade school: One Hundred and One Famous Poems . It was published in Chicago by The Cable Company in 1926. In addition to some very nice poems, it includes the Declaration of…
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