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What you can’t measure, you can’t improve.
This is one reason the alcohol lobby is fighting so hard against instituting a common definition of “a drink” on its bottles. If that happened, people…
Bob Ramsay
Feb 4
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January 2023
I have seen the enemy and it is…
Words. An odd thought from someone who lives for them and earns a livelihood from them. But while we’re all still fighting over fake news and free…
Bob Ramsay
Jan 21
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I’m not wild about Harry.
Like most people who come from a family, I cringe for the Windsors whose prodigal son gives fresh new meaning to the idea of zealous indiscretion. And…
Bob Ramsay
Jan 14
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Little Losses
The big losses we all know and dread. It’s the little ones that chip away at who we think we are. I read this week that the Kiwi shoe polish company is…
Bob Ramsay
Jan 7
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December 2022
“Come see us before we come see you.”
That’s what the US attorneys say to anyone associated with Sam Bankman-Fried’s massive crypto-caper. Or is it anyone associated with Donald Trump whose…
Bob Ramsay
Dec 31, 2022
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Happy birthday, Jesus.
I remember growing up in Edmonton, Christmas was the busiest time of year. My father was a florist and my mom and I picked him up at 6 p.m. on Christmas…
Bob Ramsay
Dec 24, 2022
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Fear and loathing…and awe.
We all knew the day would inevitably come. But so soon? It seems artificial intelligence can now write almost as well as humans. Last week, OpenAI…
Bob Ramsay
Dec 17, 2022
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There’s no such thing as bad weather. There’s only bad gear.
Indoors, there’s also “no such thing as information-overload, there is just filter failure.” So as we march into the most information- overloaded season…
Bob Ramsay
Dec 10, 2022
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The horse's mouth
Far too few of us get our information from it. We only have time to gnaw at the click-bait,and my mirror reflects who the biggest culprit is. So let’s…
Bob Ramsay
Dec 3, 2022
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November 2022
Complicit
Victory may have a thousand hand-maidens, but so does complicity. This podcast tells how to avoid turning your gaze when others’ bad behaviour comes…
Bob Ramsay
Nov 26, 2022
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Loud quitting
Princess Märtha Louise of Norway has quit to work with her shaman fiancé. Christian Bluhm, the Chief Risk Officer for the Swiss bank UBS, has quit to…
Bob Ramsay
Nov 19, 2022
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“I wasted time, and now time wastes me.”
Richard II said that, or at least his creator William Shakespeare did in 1595 when the word “doth” was used a lot before “waste”. I mention this for two…
Bob Ramsay
Nov 12, 2022
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“I wasted time, and now time wastes me.”
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