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 […]
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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
RamsayWrites – WHAT’S BETTER THAN SUBSCRIBING TO MY BELIEFS? SUBSCRIBING TO MY BLOG. Read More »
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
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Want to listen to today’s blog post? Hear it here. Today is International Women’s Day. As “days” go, it’s the biggest of all since it celebrates more than half the human race. But these days there are more ‘days’ and ‘weeks’, ‘months’ and ‘years’ than ever, from National Librarian Day, to British Pie Week, to Black History Month, to
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Rabbits get a bad rap these days. Or rather, their roads do as they hop from Uncle Remus’ house to Farmer John’s. A rabbit hole today is that dark cramped place where your addiction to social media takes you to confirm your political views. Any new or contrary idea dies in its darkness. But I
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Want to listen to today’s blog post? Hear it here. I don’t mean irrational exuberance in the economic sense. The phrase became instantly famous when Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan coined it in 1996 to describe the burgeoning internet bubble in the stock market. I mean irrational exuberance in the sexual sense. I mean it especially
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“I am sending you this email at a time that works for me. I don’t expect you to respond to it until normal business hours, or when it suits your own work-life balance. I encourage you to make guiltless work-life choices and support flexible working.” Starting in 2019, that paragraph appeared in the signature of
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When one thing is a disaster in your life, that’s manageable. Two things and it’s a crisis. Three – like lose your job, lose your health and lose your spouse — and you have permission to pull the covers over your head and never come out. I have a feeling the Trudeau government is headed
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Last weekend, I was reading the proofs of my memoir which comes out in June. My editor queried one word in this sentence: “Like most couples, we have our unspoken tics and habits that signal everything’s okay, or not.” She wanted to know if I would change “tics” to “idiosyncrasies.” As she wrote in the margin: “Some people, especially
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T.S. Eliot called April the cruellest month. But February is the coldest, though only outdoors, unless of course you’re in Texas, which is on the Mexican border, and where parts of Dallas are so cold that water bottles are freezing next to people’s bedsides. Yet on February 2nd, Wiarton Willie predicted an early spring for Ontarians and I’m
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Surely the Letter to Shareholders is one of the most torpid prose forms in any language. Written by an organization’s CEO, it precedes the annual financial statements and is written in code. “Losses” become “negative growth.” A “challenging year” means “we’ll soon be broke.” This is why only financial analysts read these Letters, and the rest of
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“When you’re used to having 100% of the market and someone comes along and takes 1% of your share, this can turn your world upside down.” That was how a highly-perched woman viewed the real reason Canadian women can’t seem to break the last glass ceilings of corporate power around board positions, compensation and C-Suite
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