Learning Makes Fools of Us All

It’s funny, isn’t it? The more we seek to know, the more we’re reminded of how much we don’t. After finding some old YouTube videos of me proclaiming my knowledge

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Is Poetry Dead in 2025?

Could you guess the most commonly shared poem on this website? Rudyard Kipling’s “If” has been a staple read to revisit in my life and I recently read it to

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A Gathering for Men Set for Sunday

You can’t rush smoking a cigar. And, that’s the point. We’ve been doing DEUCE Gentlemen’s Nights for more than a decade and it’s never about the food or the golf

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Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and Theoretical Leadership

One of the biggest punchlines in humanity is the monumental divide between understanding theory and experiencing it. Leadership comes to mind as one of the most classic cases.  There are

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Backstage at the Greek: Freespirits Call a Truce with the Type-A Mafia

It’s almost as if there is a coin toss at your birth. Are you a structureless, free spirit, artist mind or are you a logical-brained, Type-A, list crosser-offer?  I caught

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