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This section contains some newsletter articles I wrote as CEO of a company I helped start in 1980. I will add new ones from time-to-time. The company was recognized by Fortune Magazine as one of the top 100 companies to work for in America. I worked with great people; it was a fun 23 years.

 
How my attempt to sell my Chevy Vega GT turned out to be a lesson in a "failure to communicate" as Strother Martin said to Paul Newman in Cool Hand Luke.
Some thoughts from the open road on coffee shops, Death Valley, and life in general.
What's hard is very relative. Here are some lessons I learned from a blind jogger who frequently passed me on my early morning runs.
How an English clock maker won a King's Ransom by finding a solution to the most pressing scientific problem of the 1700s. His story shows the power of perseverance.