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Do You Ask Answers Disguised as Questions?

By Tim McCarthy

August 31, 2026

Brad Roller, our Vistage (peer group) Chairman, kept a stuffed toy potato within reach during our meetings. Here’s why. Part of the Vistage discipline was how we processed issues. A...

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Truly Funny | Tall Guys Have Heard It All

By Tim McCarthy

August 31, 2026

Truly Funny : Our family has many large humans, mostly men, whose size has drawn some funny lines over the years. One favorite was the clothing salesman who greeted my...

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Against the Gods

By Peter Bernstein

August 31, 2026

By Peter Bernstein Editor’s note: The subtitle describes this book well: “The Remarkable Story of Risk.” Referenced by Tom Keene on Bloomberg, it piqued my interest because of my fascination...

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Built For Open Water

By William G.T. Shedd

August 31, 2026

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Today

By The New Christy Minstrels

August 31, 2026

by The New Christy Minstrels Editor’s note: My sister, Mary, continues her brave battle against breast cancer (currently winning), and so many memories of my big sister come to...

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Seeing Life Through the Lens of Supply and Demand

By Tim McCarthy

August 4, 2026

In business, all I own is a hammer, so everything looks like a nail. That hammer is supply and demand. I measure it for every product or service I invest...

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Truly Funny | Lost in Translation: Toddler Edition

By Tim McCarthy

August 4, 2026

Truly Funny : Reminder to all parents to write down words your toddler gets a little wrong! On our annual family vacation this past week, our 18 month old, Isla,...

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See the Changes

By Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young

August 3, 2026

by Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young Editor’s note: I learned this song recently to celebrate our son, Kevin’s, life changes. Favorite lyric: “She has seen me changing. It ain’t easy...

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Self-Renewal

By John W. Gardner

August 3, 2026

Editor’s Note: This book, written in the mid-1960s, profoundly provides a construct for what is going on sixty years later. Gardner’s theme revolves around the need for self-renewal individually and...

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A Little Grace Goes a Long Way

By Charles Glassman, "The Brain Drain"

August 3, 2026

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You Were On My Mind

By We Five

June 26, 2026

by We Five Editor’s Note: My sister, Mary, is my guiding light for resilience. In my mid-teens, she lived and worked in Washington, DC, and my parents let me visit...

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Truly Funny | Houston, We Have a Sandwich

By Tim McCarthy

June 26, 2026

Truly Funny : Of the many short videos I have of our grandchildren, one is of our Stella, dressed in a space suit, helmet on, when she was three or...

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Life is Good

By Livingston Taylor

June 1, 2026

by Livingston Taylor Editor’s Note: I had coffee this week with a fellow searcher, Marianne Gaydos, and she reminded me of this upbeat, and very true song. It came up...

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