I was volunteering at a local school last week and ended up talking football with my middle school mentee. He was very clear on one thing: he wanted to make the NFL. Fair enough. Aim high. So I asked him what position he wanted to play. Quarterback? Wide receiver? Safety?
When I was younger, I had a friend named Sam. Sam was not a particularly good friend. He was not terrible either. He was just always around. He knew enough people in the group to stay in the group, even though he regularly got himself into trouble and, occasionally, got
Is being old better? Sometimes we act like it is. We tend to elect presidents on the older side. Aged wine costs more. And my mother always told me to respect my elders, though, to be fair, she never really explained why. Still, age by itself is not a virtue.
It is a weird time to be alive. On one hand, you have CEOs of the biggest companies in the world saying they still cannot hire the best engineers. On the other, many of those same people are also saying that everything is about to be automated away. So which
I recently read Phil Knight’s memoir, Shoe Dog. Apart from being one of the best business books I have read in a long time, one part of the story stuck with me more than anything else: how Nike got its first real shot. After being turned away by the
“What keeps you up at night?” I asked the CEO of a mid-sized financial institution last week. He took a beat, looked me squarely in the eye, and said, “Data breach.” I told him I was surprised. With everything going on in the world, that felt lower on the
It took me 55 minutes to get to a human. This was last weekend. I noticed a fraudulent charge on my credit card and did what the card told me to do: call customer service. Except, and this is true, I did not reach customer service for almost two hours.
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