by Morning Reflections | Jun 10, 2022 | Uncategorized
Do you occasionally sleep past your designated wake-up time? Maybe 255 volts will help your feet find the floor. That’s the thinking behind Pavlok, the fitness band that (according to its website) helps you “wear your willpower” and “form good habits.” Or, as others...
by Morning Reflections | Jun 9, 2022 | Uncategorized
There wasn’t much glamor associated with stagecoach travel in the Old West. The “roads” were dusty, miserable, and subject to radical changes of elevation. The food was lousy. The weather inside the coach was pretty much the same as the weather outside. In...
by Morning Reflections | Jun 8, 2022 | Uncategorized
Small talk is a big deal. More than a decade and a half ago, Sullivan & Cromwell, one of the most highly regarded (and typically “buttoned-up”) east coast law firms, was experiencing a culture crisis. Its annual staff turnover was an alarming 30%, and...
by Morning Reflections | Jun 7, 2022 | Uncategorized
One hundred years ago, British author and philosopher H.G. Wells was one of the most lavishly optimistic thinkers on the planet.In his 1922 book A Short History of the World, he envisioned the dawning of a golden age. Even though the horrors of World War I had...
by Morning Reflections | Jun 6, 2022 | Uncategorized
If you’re a parent, and your child is seriously ill, nothing else matters.You would move heaven and earth to find the right doctor. You would pay any price for the right medicine. If you could, you would gladly take her place. In the case of a...
by Morning Reflections | Jun 3, 2022 | Uncategorized
A few years ago, I experienced the adventure of walking through an authentic European garden maze. The first time I saw an aerial photo of one of those labyrinthine backyard hedges – the playgrounds of the rich and bored during the Enlightenment – I yearned to...
