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How to Change Your Behavior by Using Your Entire Brain
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How to Change Your Behavior by Using Your Entire Brain

Dec 24, 2025 2 min read

How to Change Your Behavior by Using Your Entire Brain I woke this morning feeling better than usual. I was not surprised. I had avoided three things I…

Coetzee’s “Waiting for the Barbarians”: Masterful Prose, Missing Plot
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Coetzee’s “Waiting for the Barbarians”: Masterful Prose, Missing Plot

Dec 24, 2025 5 min read

Waiting for the Barbarians By J.M. Coetzee 192 pages Publication Date: April, 1982 Waiting for the Barbarians, written during the apartheid regime in…

Chile Joins Latin America’s Turn to the Right
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Chile Joins Latin America’s Turn to the Right

Dec 24, 2025 3 min read

Chile Joins Latin American Move to the Right I'm sure you’ve noticed. In the last several years, we’ve seen a hopeful trend in Latin American politics…

A Skill That I Intend to Master in 2026
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A Skill That I Intend to Master in 2026

Dec 24, 2025 1 min read

A Skill That I Intend to Master in 2026 This is something I wish I had learned 65 years ago. (Nowadays, I’m happy to get down the stairs without…

How to Grow and Regrow Successful Businesses
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How to Grow and Regrow Successful Businesses

Dec 17, 2025 1 min read

I’m writing this while I’m in Baltimore for an end-of-year review of Agora’s seven domestic and six international publishing groups, which will be…

Three Days of Non-Stop Meetings at Agora’s Baltimore Headquarters
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Three Days of Non-Stop Meetings at Agora’s Baltimore Headquarters

Dec 17, 2025 4 min read

Three Days of Non-Stop Meetings – Oh Boy! I had my first meeting right after I checked in to my room at Baltimore’s Hotel Ulysses, which is a few…

Growers and Tenders, Alphas and Betas: Choosing the Right Personalities
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Growers and Tenders, Alphas and Betas: Choosing the Right Personalities

Dec 17, 2025 5 min read

Growers and Tenders, Alphas and Betas Choosing the Right Personalities to Grow Your Business Many years ago, I came up with what I believe may be one…

When “Hell, Yes!” Should Be “Hold On
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When “Hell, Yes!” Should Be “Hold On

Dec 17, 2025 2 min read

“Hell, Yes!” – or Maybe Not When a recent visitor to Paradise Palms wrote to the website asking if she could book a big event there, my reaction was…

Pay Attention to How You Pay Attention
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Pay Attention to How You Pay Attention

Dec 17, 2025 1 min read

“Pay Attention to How You Pay Attention” KM sent me this link to an article by Ezra Klein in The New York Times. “When I read it,” she wrote, “I…

The Indiana Jones of Language Learning
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The Indiana Jones of Language Learning

Dec 17, 2025 1 min read

“Meet the Indiana Jones of Language Learning” Thanks to my fellow Mules member SL for providing this link to our conversation on the American Bilingual…

Three Nicaraguan Surfers Rise from Discarded Boards to International Stardom
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Three Nicaraguan Surfers Rise from Discarded Boards to International Stardom

Dec 17, 2025 1 min read

Hints: Yes, they are surfers. And, yes, this photo was taken at Rancho Santana. Answer: They are three young Nicaraguans who are moving up quickly in…

Why I Appreciate Mary Oliver’s “Moles
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Why I Appreciate Mary Oliver’s “Moles

Dec 17, 2025 2 min read

“I really appreciated your piece on education in the Dec. 2 issue…” “It’s both sickening and appalling to see how the government has dismantled what…