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America’s Founding Mother
We Americans all know the Founding Fathers. Washington. Adams. Jefferson. Franklin. The usual suspects. What we talk less about is the Founding Mother. Founding Mother? …
The First Rule of Fight Club
“Fight Club” (1999), starring Ed Norton (as “The Narrator”) and Brad Pitt (as “Tyler Durden”) is considered one of the best movies of its decade. …
The Moon was Never the Point
You know the old cliché about the moon and the stars? That if you shoot for the moon and miss, it’s all well and good …
What Viking Cuisine Can Tell Us About Innovation
In the 1970s, the late academic, Thomas McGovern who was well known in environmental circles at the time proposed a nice explanation for why the …
Mommy, Where Does Meaning Come From?
There’s a great novel that came out in 1949, “The Sheltering Sky” by Paul Bowles. It’s about a married couple, Port and Kit Moresby, two …
You Scratch My Back, I’ll Scratch Yours
Robert Trivers died last week, perhaps the greatest evolutionary biologist of the last century. Though not as famous as his colleague, Richard Dawkins, he did …
Meliora
Back in 1990, the appointed head administrator for the recently bankrupt Eastern Airlines, Martin Shugrue gave an all hands speech in front of employees in …
Aim
In 1429, an illiterate 17-year old French peasant defined the fate of kings and successfully redefined global power politics. During the Hundred Years’ War, England …
Who Knows What
April 13, 1970. 200,000 miles from Earth. An oxygen tank exploded on Apollo 13. “Houston, we’ve had a problem.” It could have been the end. …
Beyond Glamour: The Staples Baddie
Kaeden is a 22-year-old print specialist at a Staples in upstate New York. She started making TikToks about her job because she genuinely loved it. …
What the 19th Century Socialite & Modern Day Host Teach Us About Leadership
In the opening chapter of War And Peace, Pavlovna sets the stage at an 1805 social gathering in St Petersburg. The top elite of Russian …
Go Your Own Way
My favorite movie star wears Chanel. I, too, will wear Chanel. All the cool kids live in Brooklyn. I, too, just moved to Brooklyn. Everyone …
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