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"Please be patient while I reboot the system,” said the voice over the intercom. The flight attendant had been wrestling with the airplane’s video system for about 10 minutes before he determined [...]

Last week, I experienced my first order of avocado toast. Normally, I’m a wheat toast and honey kind of guy. Eggs and bacon or pancakes are far more likely to be on my plate than toasted bread [...]

Thomas J. Watson, Sr., the founding Chairman and CEO of International Business Machines (IBM) from 1914 to 1956, first wrote the word THINK on an easel in a sales meeting in 1911. He was [...]

A few years ago, I had the opportunity to attend Cirque du Soleil during a visit to Disney World in Orlando. The show was a feast for the eyes: dramatic, colorful, daring. For those who have not [...]

Stationed with his army in New York, General George Washington received a copy of the Declaration of Independence on July 6, 1776. In Philadelphia four days earlier, the Second Continental [...]

For as long as we’ve had stuff, greed has been on the scene. The consequences of greed appear throughout history and we’ve been warned of its dangers time and again. One of the seven deadly sins, [...]