Last week, I wrote about Casey Johnson, the great-great granddaughter of the founder of Johnson & Johnson (JNJ).  Among your insightful responses was this one, from a reader who’s a Financial Advisor in the Northwestern Mutual Financial Network.
“If Casey Johnson was single at the time of her death–and I think she was–and with no current [...]

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Today’s post contains a lot of little ideas that I assembled last week; in fact, I nearly titled it potpourri, but I was put off by the association with aromatic plant material, not to mention the fact that in French, the term means “rotten pot.”
Upon further reflection, I realized the common theme uniting these elements [...]

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On Saturday, Sunday and Monday, one week ago, here’s what happened.
On Saturday, the New York Times ran a story on the drug wars in Mexico, describing how the power of the criminal gangs often outweighs the power of the law enforcers.
It’s a big problem, and the violence has increased since President Felipe Calderon launched an [...]

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“Simplify, simplify.”–Henry David Thoreau
“Seek simplicity, and distrust it.”–Alfred North Whitehead
The search for simple solutions to complex problems has been going on for a long time.  And with Thoreau on one shoulder encouraging you to pare down and Whitehead on the other telling you to dig complexity, you could easily go totally insane.  First you would [...]

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