Most are engaged in business the greater part of their lives, because the soul abhors a vacuum and they have not discovered any continuous employment for man`s nobler faculties.
—Henry David Thoreau
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Let’s say you have to spend a couple of weeks away from home on a business trip. You’re scheduled into all day meetings, and are dining with colleagues. Then when you finally get back to the hotel, you have to dial into a meeting with the Australian office, where people are just getting to work.
How [...]
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And now, a few observations about things completely unrelated to either North American election:
That Wisdom book showed up today. Totally worth the money. It’s been a long time since I bought a “coffee table book”, but if I had a coffee table I’d be proud to leave this out on it.
You know where I’m find [...]
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I have 10.5 hours of scheduled meetings tomorrow. 10.5 hours. Scheduled.
I should totally just call in sick and lie around the hotel reading Disch and Akunin.
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I work every day with people all over the world. Consequently, it is often hard to set a meeting time that is useful to everyone who needs to be in a meeting.
I am quite prepared to work in the evenings, and often do, but I really, really, want to keep that narrow window of time [...]
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