The Evolution of Steve Jobs

It’s been 9 years since Steve Jobs has died. And I can say his absence is greatly felt in the business world. We all know about Walter Issacson’s seminal biography for which I have not read. However, my favorite blogger Gus Van Horn posted about a biography that is not as well know called Becoming […]

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I know I am late on posting this but in November was 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. A month later on Christmas Day the Romanian dictatorship of Nicolae Ceausescu was overthrown and he and lowlife wife were finally executed. About 10 years ago I came across an autobiography from Nadia Comaneci, […]

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Dorothy Vaughan, Katherine Johnson, Mary Jackson, Margery Hannah, and Virginia Tucker the NASA Americans have never heard of until movie came out over two years ago. I first heard about Hidden Figures from reading an article in the New York Magazine. The author Margot Lee Shetterly was interviewed about her research on these incredible women […]

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I know it has been a long time since I have written a blog post. My father’s health took a turn for the worse in January. Sadly, he died in May. I just have not been in the mood to blog. I’ve been dealing with grief, my father’s estate, and my own life. I am […]

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As of December I have had my blog for a decade. I can’t believe how much time has passed. The past ten years have seen some extreme lows and some incredible highs. I started this blog in the midst of the financial crisis; I had just been laid off, and effectively kissed a finance career […]

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Imagine yourself as a young girl from an obscure German family.  You are asked to move eastward, to the mighty state of Russia.  There you are to marry the future czar who unfortunately turns out to be an insufferable dolt, too inept for his position.  You take matters into your own hands after years of […]

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It is always important to recognize forgotten American heroes.  Especially during this anti-heroic period we are living in.  One such hero played a pivotal role in post-antebellum southern society.  Booker T. Washington was that figure.  Born into slavery in Virginia, Washington was able to reach the highest levels of American society.  His autobiography Up From […]

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We all remember the day when US Airways flight 1549 landed on the Hudson River on January 15, 2009.  That was not a good time for me or for the whole country.  I had just been laid off from my banking job, and was very fearful of the future.  This was at the height of […]

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I am a big fan of the Brontë sisters novels.  However I had no idea Emily Brontë wrote poetry.  It wasn’t until after watching an excellent PBS movie about the sisters called To Walk Invisible that I was introduced to her poetry.  I was able to find an old edition of her poems at my local […]

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As much as we bemoan the state of the world today with Muslim terrorism, economic turmoil, and leadership that only cares about maintaining its own power as an end in itself.  It’s easy to fall into the mindset of the world being a hellish place.  I am guilty of it as well.  Yet, some of […]

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