Monday, November 14, 2022

Mendacity and Tapioca.

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A radical thought, at least as we near the quarter-of-the-way mark in the 21st century. Proof, n ot hype. Deeds, not words. Facts, not adjec...
Friday, November 11, 2022

Manos de Piedra.

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When I was still just 17 and playing under the unforgiving sun in the Mexican Baseball League, for one of the first times in my life I learn...
Thursday, November 10, 2022

We Survive Harder.

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This totally isn't fair but what's a blog for if not to be unfair sometimes. Or at least opinionated. I started noticing a decade or...
Wednesday, November 9, 2022

Metaphors Amok.

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In old-timey baseball parlance, I just had a meeting where I swung and missed.  Three times. Wide. I didn't come close to smiting the ba...
Tuesday, November 8, 2022

Hopper to It.

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I don't care how much various radical right politicians are trying to scare us. Every night there seem to be 12 stories or 20 about more...
Monday, November 7, 2022

Ted and.

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As those who know me or read me know, back in September I flew to Lisbon, Portugal to deliver a TEDx talk. It's finally been uploaded to...
Friday, November 4, 2022

It Happened One Night.

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No matter how early I wake up, even when I'm crazy with work and wake up in the fours or, even, the threes, ninety-nine days out of one-...
Thursday, November 3, 2022

Not Well-Bread.

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There's a famous writer in the Yiddish canon (the canon without ammunition) called I.L. Peretz. He was born in 1852 and died in 1915, li...
Wednesday, November 2, 2022

Not Playing at Monopoly.

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I was asked not long ago to attend a conference on aging and because I'm stupid, I readily said yes.  To be frank (I'm frank and ear...
Tuesday, November 1, 2022

How to Say I'm Sorry.

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My last assignment at Ogilvy was by far the toughest of the aggregate of my twelve years there. Not only was I partnering with the New York ...