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Ben Affleck: I would’ve ‘still’ been drinking if I’d stayed married to Jennifer Garner

More questions than answers. [Editor] Ben Affleck felt “trapped” in his marriage to Jennifer Garner — and thinks he wouldn’t have gotten sober had he stayed. “We probably would’ve ended up at each other’s throats. I probably still would’ve been drinking,” Affleck, 49, recently said on SiriusXM’s “The Howard Stern Show.” “Part of why I […]

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Time is free, but

“Time is free, but it’s priceless. You can’t own it, but you can use it. You can’t keep it, but you can spend it. Once you’ve lost it you can never get it back.” ― Harvey MacKay References: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Mackay

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don’t try to guess or make assumptions

If you aren’t sure what to do, the worst thing you can do is try to guess or make assumptions. Chances are, you’ll end up doing the wrong thing.  Elon Musk Sent a Controversial Email to Managers. It’s a Master Class in Leading People If an email is sent from me with explicit directions, there […]

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Planktonium

Scoop up a cup of water anywhere on Earth, and you will find strange, entrancing life-forms called plankton. From brilliantly colored blobs to miniature monsters adorned with tentacles and gigantic eyes, every drop of H2O, be it freshwater or seawater, hums with microscopic life most of us have never seen. For the past three years, […]

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Climber-filmmaker Jimmy Chin: Living life on the edge

Commit, and then figure it out.  “I often get asked, like, ‘What’s the greatest risk you’ve ever taken in your life?’ And I assume people think it’s on a mountain somewhere deciding to continue on,” Chin said. “It’s clear to me in my life that the biggest risk I ever took was deciding to commit […]

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Nearly 80% of downtown Toronto office employees are still working from home

Despite all sorts of efforts to entice employees and employers back into their gleaming office towers, the Financial District remains a relative ghost town compared to what it was before the pandemic struck in March of 2020. see: https://www.blogto.com/city/2021/11/nearly-80-downtown-toronto-office-employees-are-still-working-home/

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Psychological Immaturity Threatens Our Democracy

KEY POINTS Democracy requires psychological maturity. America’s culture is young, and can often seem childish, a bit too loud, self-centered, distractible, and cheerful. America losing its psychological maturity also loses the necessary psychological tools for keeping democracy functional. see: https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/insight-therapy/202111/psychological-immaturity-threatens-our-democracy

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