Quite a significant day today. Got a call from SH about him and his people being quite interested in the idea, generally making me feel chuffed. I didn't think I would be mentally prepared to confront a fork in the road quite so soon, or have the decisiveness to flip open my Swiss-knife and cut... Continue Reading →
Sacred Cows & Spittoons: Faking-Friendly Fads
I can't help marveling at how the maturity, sophistication, and impressive intellectual capital of an organization seems to become so feckless and cramped in the face of forces that derive from patently short-sighted motivations. All it takes is for a few key people gifted with lumbar pliability to convince the circus master of their contortionist... Continue Reading →
What Matters: Reflections in Twilight
An aphoristic remark I heard at John's recent farewell is worth recording. While it could be easily dismissed as a bit of mildly amusing word play of the greeting card genre, it has an amazing poignancy because of who made it and whom it was about. The laconic and mysterious ex-MD of Poland had specially... Continue Reading →
Endings: Closure and Continuity
This has been a summer of goodbyes. So many colleagues have left (mostly retirements) that one cannot help wondering at what point the individual discontinuities will accumulate into a more culturally pervasive sense of an epoch-shift. The only thing that prevents one from feeling this transition acutely is that the replacements are often people we know. ... Continue Reading →
The Owl Takes Wing
I can afford no fanfare in this rather clumsy and overdue launch. It shall have to be frugal and perfunctory today, but a prelude to better things to come...hopefully.
Notes to Self 