Breakfast means breakfast cereal to me. I eat the same breakfast for many years. It began when I was a teenager: Cheerios during the week, a dusty sundae on Saturday (vanilla ice cream, chocolate sauce, with powdered malt on top); and waffles with maple syrup on Sunday.
Since I started reading sports car magazines in my mid teens I’ve been interested in cars. We lived on the Navy base in Long Beach, CA – where a neighbor had a MG TC, and was kind enough to take me for a ride in it. I liked this enough that – while my first
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HBS found me an apartment within walking distance of campus. It wasn’t a nice part of Cambridge and there were cockroaches. I moved in, cleaned it poorly, but eliminated the cockroaches. Later, when I saw them entering under the door, I added a poison strip just inside to keep them out. I planned to find
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When I returned home to look for a job after graduating from Case, my father talked about my studies with one of his friends. He said that my background sounded like “human factors”. As I didn’t know what that was I went to the library – this was before the Internet – and looked it
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I’d dreamed for decades of building a house adjacent to my grandparents’ land in North Shrewsbury, VT. But we put building off until we were in our 70s – which turned out to be too late. However, we learned a lot about building in the North, and I’m taking this opportunity to pass some of
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July 15, 2020 Dear Friends: I have sent this letter to classmates and other friends. I hope you will read it and understand my deep concern at what I see happening in our country. Please note that I am not writing to ask you or anyone else to change political affiliation or to engage in
I had selected Case Institute of Technology because my uncle was on the faculty. Our family had moved from Long Beach, California to McLean, Virginia during the summer before my freshman year. My parents drove me to Cleveland, Ohio – where it is located – and I moved into the freshman dormitory with my first
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I grew up with stories of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as my father had grown up nearby and he received his masters degree there. Here is my favorite story from him: A streetcar stopped in front of MIT and was surrounded by a crowd of students. They began to get on and off the
I began thinking about vitamins after I quit smoking in my late 20s. (I was sick and away from home – and decided that I wouldn’t feel much worse, so I quit.) This new interest in health led me to look for information on vitamins – and I found Adele Davis. I found, bought, read
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A “lip sync problem” is when your brain finds a discrepancy between your TV’s audio and video – which has become more apparent with today’s large TVs.
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