December 2017
5 articles published this month.
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Miscellaneous Essays
Why You Need a Good Editor, or… How to Edit Yourself When You Don’t Have One
His email was clever and funny. So too (I thought) was my response. I put the two together and sent it to my editor as a witty brief for publication in this little blog. “I think this is pretty clever,” I…
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Miscellaneous Essays
The Exposure Explosion
You Think Sexual Harassment Is News? Really? Men – mostly powerful white men – are being exposed as sexual predators. They are being punished by losing their jobs, their reputations, and, in some cases, their…
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Miscellaneous Essays
Dressing Like a Billionaire
“Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.” – Mark Twain The very idea of dressing like a billionaire is implausible to the point of being silly. Billionaires, after all, are…
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Miscellaneous Essays
Dividends: Not Life’s Greatest Joy But Great for a Worry-Free Retirement
Marc Litchenfeld tells me that John D. Rockefeller once said that what gave him the “greatest joy” was seeing dividends flowing into his bank accounts. Dividends are income – i.e., cash flow you’ve earned from…
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Miscellaneous Essays
Robert Mugabe’s Career How to Bankrupt a Country and Keep It Poor for 40 Years
On November 21, Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe’s authoritarian ruler, was forced to resign in the wake of a military takeover. Emmerson Mnangagwa, who had been Mugabe’s right-hand man was sworn in as president, and…
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