Thanks for your overwhelming response to the first five favorite mistakes. Here are five more to add. There are many more. I once read the mantra for a company called IDEO. It was simply, “Fail Quickly.” I wish I had read that several decades ago. I have the tendency to fail slowly. With a thousand [...]

I once read the mantra for a company called IDEO. It was simply, “Fail Quickly.” I wish I had read that several decades ago. I have the tendency to fail slowly. With a thousand pardons to Sheryl Crow, here are a few of my favorite mistakes. 1. Searching for a soulmate—That term is so sexy…and [...]

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One can wonder how anyone who has the slightest interest in books, or the barest curiosity about what the greatest of all novels may be like, could consider not reading War and Peace. At the same time it is easy to understand why many do not try it. It is too big, too “great,” too [...]