The Importance of Being First
When Aldi opened a grocery store in my home town, Armidale, a few years ago, I wanted to be its first customer. So I arrived at the store 70 minutes before opening time. I reckoned that other people with the same goal would show up 60 minutes before opening time. I...
Radical Changes
Radical change can lead to great improvements. We see those improvements mostly with technological changes, such as the Internet, cell phones, search engines, and all kinds of medical advances, including gene therapy and 3-D printed body parts. People tend to...
Being a Character
I used to work with a guy who was a wild dresser by Australian standards. Let’s call him Stan. He would wear to work suits with bright yellow and pink dress shirts, colourful suspenders and multi-coloured sneakers. Stan, originally from Ireland, moved back...
Psychopaths
When I lived in the U.S., I met a university student, “Graham.” He told me he had been in the South African army prior to the end of apartheid and said that he had seen terrible things. He had short hair and talked with a South African accent. He...
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