It’s interesting to track trends in technology by analyzing the latest in industry buzz-phrases. After the World Wide Web was firmly established as a business tool, industry consultants started spinning …
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Here’s one for you: an Irishman walks into a pub and orders his Guinness with an olive on the side. After finishing each drink, he places the olive in a …
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Here are two possible portraits of memoirists. He’s around 65, or older. He sports a beard, smokes a pipe, and has a PhD in English Literature. He’s very opinionated, and …
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My wife and I were watching a movie not long ago, and Clint Eastwood as Dirty Harry was being chased by bad guys through the streets of San Francisco. “Why …
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Dying for a Price Break — 3 Great Ways to Cut the Cost of Funerals
by Bruce Haringby Bruce HaringHere’s a great idea — we’ll have your family meet with a high-powered salesman when they’re utterly distraught. The salesman will attempt to up-sell on all sorts of customized items, …
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Imagine living in a place where there is no government, no regulation, no taxation, and certainly no objections to anything that will alter your mind. It’s a place beyond the …
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Since the advent of cell phones and the mobile Internet, workers have been freed from the confines of an office — and work in coffee shops, hotel business centers, airport …
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If you’re in any career field where your job is at all repetitive, there’s probably a robot coming to take that job from you. There’s been a lot of chatter …
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You’ve encountered bad leaders in the work place. You’ve seen the boss’s son — the character who, just because he was born on third base, suffers from the illusion that …
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The modern trend toward ubiquitous smartphones and connected devices actually started in Japan, a long time before it washed onto the shores of the US. In the Land of the …