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You’ve all seen the bumper sticker: “If it ain’t grown, it’s mined.” I realized some years ago that this is a powerful metaphor for many things in life and I started to divide people into farmers and miners. I came to this realization when I watched how our neighbor, who owns 23 vacation rentals, maintained [...]
You want to buy a new car, take a new job, volunteer at the food bank — how can you ensure that you’re making the right decision?
George Hartzog, the greatest leader of National Park Service understood that creativity can be crushed in the name of “standards.” He killed the employee handbooks and set his people free.
At over $50,000 a year for an Ivy League education, wouldn’t most kids be better off doing something else with their money? As Mario Botta said, “What are universities, but parking lots for youth?”
Lately, the GMail team has been sort of pissing me off, with various things. Recent versions of GMail didn’t work on Chrome on one of my computers (yes, didn’t work on their own browser on my computer). They got rid of the Offline version. Well, I don’t always have connectivity and it felt like Google [...]
There’s not much to say. This site is maintained (to put it charitably!) by Tom Lambert, a historian by profession, an outdoorsman by avocation and a geek by nature.
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