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What women think about ‘Letters from Ceilia’

I’m told by women who have read it that Letters From Ceilia is the best book they ever read about a young woman’s business life and choices. Being both a man and the author, I take that as high praise. I claim that the best thing about reading fiction is that it allows you to live another persons life for a few hundred pages. On that basis, go ahead and live Ceilia’s life.

The Trouble with Getting Published

Thirty years ago, when I first came to Prague to ‘write and live in Europe,’ I made a serious error of judgement. I had access to a 50-year-old motorcycle, a Jawa two-cycle twin and decided to ride it over the Austrian Alps down into Italy to see a friend. In itself,...

Discover how to be More of Who You Are, rather than a Version of the Competition

In business, you’re likely engaged in either a finite or infinite game. Think professional sports: The finite game is winning this Saturday’s soccer game. The infinite game is soccer itself—it will be around as a sport whether you win or lose. It’s hard to do work...

Mike Wallace Died last Sunday at Age Ninety-three

That’s fact and incontrovertible, announced to us from every page and media source. It’s taken me these five days or so to get my thoughts together sufficiently to comment. Mike was a lion among journalist-commentators and brought to his trade a new paradigm. Not only...

There Was a Time I Wrote Poetry…

There was a time I wrote poetry. Then it turned itself off and prose returned. If you write, have you ever had that happen? I’m not really even a fan of poetry and rarely read it for pleasure. And yet for probably a year and a half it simply came to me on a tram, or...