Want to listen to today’s blog post? Hear it here. In 1966, Harvard researcher Timothy Leary would spend weekends with his students at a mansion in Dutchess County, New York where they’d smoke dope and drop acid. Now Dutchess county was and is one of the most right-wing counties in America, and the good burghers […]
Want to listen to today’s blog post? Hear it here. Today’s blog is to brain food what eggs benedict is to weekends: great-tasting, highly socializing and not great for your arteries. But hey, try these tidbits and see how they fill you up. 1.You can train to be an astronaut. You no longer need The
Want to listen to today’s blog post? Hear it here. What are high-performers going to do now that addictive overwork is losing its allure? Not overwork as in 10 hours a day and the odd Sunday at the office. Or consecutive Zoom meetings, with you feeling a bit tiredy-wiredy at the end of the day.
Want to listen to today’s blog post? Hear it here. None of us was alive for the original Jim Crow laws back in the 1920s which made racial segregation legal in the southern United States. “Colored only” washrooms, poll taxes, “back of the bus” and IQ tests asking “how many bubbles in a bar of
Want to listen to today’s blog post? Hear it here. Until the late 1800s, people worked six days a week, with Sunday their day of rest — and in many places, church. The idea of a weekend as two very different days “in which we can do what we please” was lovingly chronicled by Witold Rybczynski in Waiting
Want to listen to today’s blog post? Hear it here. Travel porn isn’t travel for sex. It’s the pictures of destinations that are so gorgeous they defy the reality of even our most precious memory of a lovely place. It’s not my phrase. It’s an industry phrase. Some people would call Condé Nast Traveler travel porn. New
Want to listen to today’s blog post? Hear it here. The Royal Bank of Canada has more employees than the Canadian Armed Forces – 86,000 compared to 68,000. While the Royal is the 11th largest bank worldwide, the Canadian Armed Forces rank 50th in size as a military force. In other words, our banks are
Want to listen to today’s blog post? Hear it here. I used to write these Omnium-Gatherum (OG) blog posts every month, with 8 to 10 brief items to lead you down the rabbit hole. Now, they’ll land every week, a mark of how much strange and beguiling life is online these days, and how quick-like-a-bunny
Want to listen to today’s blog post? Hear it here. In 1943, Winston Churchill allegedly ordered a special run of condoms to be manufactured at double the regular size. He then had them shipped to Moscow in boxes stamped “Made in Britain – Medium.” This reminds me of the fusillade of Long-Form essays sprouting up
With few of us flying, we don’t hear stories of air rage anymore. They used to be all the rage, and on the rise. A nutter goes wild because a flight attendant doesn’t say “Please.”A frequent flyer doesn’t get his upgrade. Some fanboys drink too much, forcing the pilot to land in Dubuque. Booze is
Want to listen to today’s blog post? Hear it here. I started writing The Plague-Ground last March 18th, five days after my wife, Jean, and I fled north to our cottage. Within a couple of weeks, most of my work had vaporized. RamsayTalks. RamsayTravels. In-person courses. All gone. For the first time in my life, I had little to
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Want to listen to today’s blog post? Hear it here. Back in 2010, a publicist persuaded me to invite an unknown Columbia Law Professor to speak at a RamsayTalk about his new book. The Master Switch showed how tech companies that were dedicated to openness soon evolved into “a more closed system.”. Eleven years ago, this idea was
