How much should we care what people think of us, or what our reputation is? There is a legitimacy to considering optics, if you don’t mind referring to them that way.More
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Let No One Despise You for Your Youth
Sometimes when older men feel threatened or challenged by younger men – even just by their example – they act out in confusing and irrational ways.More
Ulysses S. Grant and Discharge Pressure
What made Ulysses S. Grant so remarkable? I may be finding out as I listen to Ron Chernow’s biography of the man. And let me tell you a story about a recent instrumentation issue I had to troubleshoot at work, and how I think it relates to the fair-weather philosophy which so dominates our post-modern…More