Tonight I am in Chicago for the Dream Speeches of the remarkably talented men and women who are about to graduate from i.c.stars* (www.icstars.org) i.c.stars* is an amazing charity with whom I've had the great good fortune to work for the past five years, since I was a student at Kellogg. Their mission is to [...]
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When I declare, in the middle of summer "Yeah, I'm pretty much a true Northerner - summer doesn't do it for me," I can clear a room pretty fast. I've lived all over the world and experienced life in places where one season was it. Sure, when I lived in Phoenix it wasn't always one-hundred-and-sixteen [...]
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Plastics. The famous line from The Graduate in which Mr. McGuire counsels our young graduate, Benjamin Braddock, to wrap himself (pun very much intended) in plastic. Prescient counsel for a young man graduating in the 1960s, as the boom in plastics was about to hit. I wonder how many Mr. McGuires counseled how many young [...]
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Be forewarned: this entire piece is a love letter to Sweden. If you're not feeling very pro-Swedish (no idea why anyone would be anything but immensely pro-Swedish) you should go grab a coffee now and visit hampsterdance.com But if you're still here, I'll at least assume that you have a passing interest into why I [...]
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