Monthly Archives: October 2011

Swimming with the sharks

And I mean that in the best possible way.

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‘Sup?

Sitting at dinner one night in Durham, North Carolina, with the Chief Commercial Officer of Ridge Diagnostics, the lab manager and the medical director, we enjoyed east Indian food and discussed the progress that Ridge had made.  We were intently … Continue reading

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Auspicious consumption

Why is it that the word “consumption” has been inextricably bound to the adjective “conspicuous”, and the phrase has come to mean a condemnation of our consumer-based economy?

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Thoughts from January 2008, pre-recession…

January 7, 2008  (With 2011 notes) As the 2007 shopping days of Christmas fade behind us, a look forward seems in order.

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