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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 […]

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The Plague-Ground – This Could Be Dangerous

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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

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The Plague-Ground – Women’s Work is Never Done

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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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The Plague-Ground – RABBIT HOLES FOR EAGER DIGGERS

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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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The Plague-Ground – Irrational Exuberance

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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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The Plague-Ground – You have a right to disconnect

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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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The Plague-Ground – Walk and Chew Gum.

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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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The Plague-Ground – Remember When Women Were Called Women?

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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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The Plague-Ground – SOME HAND-WARMERS FOR YOUR HEART AND MIND

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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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The Plague-Ground – The rise (and shine) of a near-dead medium.

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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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The Plague-Ground – Monopolies and Men

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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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The Plague-Ground – Save the performing hearts

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This Sunday, you can’t have dinner in a restaurant in Toronto, but you can in New York City. Governor Andrew Cuomo decided last week to allow partial- capacity indoor dining there because Valentine’s Day is one of the biggest restaurant nights of the year. This gives new meaning to the phrase “dying for love.” Or, if you’re a

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RamsayWrites – WHAT’S BETTER THAN SUBSCRIBING TO MY BELIEFS? SUBSCRIBING TO MY BLOG.

The Plague-Ground – This Could Be Dangerous

The Plague-Ground – Women’s Work is Never Done

The Plague-Ground – RABBIT HOLES FOR EAGER DIGGERS

The Plague-Ground – Irrational Exuberance

The Plague-Ground – You have a right to disconnect

The Plague-Ground – Walk and Chew Gum.

The Plague-Ground – Remember When Women Were Called Women?

The Plague-Ground – SOME HAND-WARMERS FOR YOUR HEART AND MIND

The Plague-Ground – The rise (and shine) of a near-dead medium.

The Plague-Ground – Monopolies and Men

The Plague-Ground – Save the performing hearts

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