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Tuesday, March 24, 2026

Finding a Voice.

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Last week it was announced that after 32 years, the advertising relationship between IBM and Ogilvy had ended. I knew the news beforehand, a...

Monday, March 23, 2026

This Will be Complicated.

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This post is about two books I've read over the past eighteen months or so. I wish more people would read them for two reasons. a) I...

Friday, March 20, 2026

Clarity.

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Branch Rickey in his playing days. When I was a boy, baseball was about 107-percent of my life and a full 134-percent of my happiness. Even ...

Thursday, March 19, 2026

Human Universals.

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To a Denisovan, this might have been Margot Robbie. If you look at the history of homo-sapiens--though it probably goes back further, to Den...

Wednesday, March 18, 2026

What's In a Name?

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I ran into the kitchen not too many minutes ago and saw a half-used bottle of the Stop-N-Shop brand dishwashing liquid leaning against a new...

Tuesday, March 17, 2026

The Four Hs.

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When I started GeorgeCo., LLC, a Delaware Company nearly six-and-a-half years ago, though I was somewhat in the grip-of-unemployment panic, ...

Monday, March 16, 2026

Sold. Out.

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If you've ever had a mortgage, one of the felicities of having one is getting an envelope in the mail with an unknown letterhead. I'...

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