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Keith Allen
October 18, 2025

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The Workload Fairy Tale

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A Relationship Challenge: Greet Everyone You Come in Direct Contact With

There is something special about a person who chooses to greet everyone they come in direct contact with.

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Paddling upstream

We notice the current most when we’re headed against it. It’s easy to take our advantage for granted when we’re headed the other way and it’s helping us. Related: When IR…

Seth Godin

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What is the cure for the West’s individualist worldview?

It runs deeply through the Western outlook, hailed and condemned in equal measures. For a corrective, look to Confucius…

Aeon

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