I Wonder Now How Tough

It Seems Perverse To Focus Too Much On The Casualties Or Hardship In Afghanistan ...[showing The Misery Of Afghanistan Ran The Risk Of] Promoting Enemy Propaganda...we Must Talk About How The Taliban Are Using Civilian Shields And How The Taliban Have Harboured The Terrorists Responsible For Killing Close Up To 5,000 Innocent People.

Was He Smart? No, Not Exceptionally. Instead, He Was A Genius.

Ed Woolard, His Mentor On The Apple Board, Pressed Jobs For More Than Two Years To Drop The Interim In Front Of His Ceo Title. Not Only Was Jobs Refusing To Commit Himself, But He Was Baffling Everyone By Taking Only $1 A Year In Pay And No Stock Options. I Make 50 Cents For Showing Up, He Liked To Joke, And The Other 50 Cents Is Based On Performance.

Good Telling Of Human Stories Is The Best Way To Keep The Internet And World Wide Web From Becoming A Waste Vastland.

I Have My Own Theory About Why Decline Happens At Companies Like Ibm Or Microsoft. The Company Does A Great Job, Innovates And Becomes A Monopoly Or Close To It In Some Field, And Then The Quality Of The Product Becomes Less Important. The Company Starts Valuing The Great Salesmen, Because They’re The Ones Who Can Move The Needle On Revenues, Not The Product Engineers And Designers. So The Salespeople End Up Running The Company.