A considerable part of my job is reading the tea leaves to determine why our market share is what it is and what it is likely to do next. We calculate our market share by submitting our sales and getting aggregated totals back. There are various details to this information, but to maintain confidentiality of contributing members’ specific information a Read More

I’m living a pretty easy life right now, but I still find ways to complain about it. I told a friend I wished I had more friends. “Why?” he said. “What’s lacking in your life now that having more friends would provide?” Stupid question, right? A lack of friends would be cured by having more friends! And, you shouldn’t value Read More

An uncommon sight on the internet: a homeschooled conservative Christian who does not believe the courtship is the answer! God should be the owner of a person’s heart and when a Christian young lady gives her heart to someone, it should be because it’s God’s will. There’s no stealing involved. No one can force you to love someone anymore than Read More

Five days out of the week you go to the same place at the same time to do the same thing. One day you notice this pattern. There is a reason for it, of course, but suddenly the regularity of it, the pattern-ness, is strangely compelling. For a moment you have an impression of a vastness consisting of small repetitions. But Read More