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the seal (opens the original)
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Plenty of strong market positions are actually mandates: a rule, a designation, a requirement somebody else wrote. They look identical on a P&L but behave very differently when the rule changes. Three organizations found this out, in 2010, in 2011, and over the course of a single night in 2021. A fourth, the American Bar Association, is finding out this week in a hearing room in Washington. It’s worth knowing whether your business runs on the same exposure.The covers of most American comic books
how i learned to love firecrackers (opens the original)
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We landed at Shanghai Pudong Airport on the 15th of August, 2006. As we entered Suzhou, we noticed fireworks going off directly ahead of us. We figured it must be a holiday. Neither my wife nor I knew the Chinese calendar well enough to guess which one. It seemed like a generous thing for a country to be doing on the evening you arrive in it for the first time.They went off the next night too, and the night after that, and most nights for years afterwards.It took me a while to figure out why. Fa
the unhurried breakfast (opens the original)
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For the better part of a decade, my commercial existence was defined by a state of constant, high-velocity flailing that I routinely mistook for entrepreneurial drive.On any given day, my routine was predictably grueling. I would sit at my desk, my face illuminated by the harsh blue glare of three overlapping monitors. I was in my thirties, an immigrant founder born in Karachi who had spent his adult life clawing through the operational dirt of Shanghai, Singapore, and Washington, DC to build a
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