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Read Like a Gent: Island of the Lost, by Joan Druett
Every young boy occasionally dreams of being shipwrecked and living like Robinson Crusoe: hacking survival out of the wilderness, getting by on wits, hard work, and a bit of luck. …
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Personal Annual Review
The term “annual review” doesn’t usually cause a feeling of excitement for anyone who comes across it. Yes, there might be a pay raise of some sort involved with such…
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Unclehood Matters Too
As gents we have primary responsibilities to our parents, siblings, spouse, and children, and that’s plenty to keep us busy. But something we can lose track of, if we aren’t…
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Read Like a Gent: The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger
Human disasters from storms at sea are covered so extensively in the news these days that we might forget that not only are storms are a regular part of the…
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LinkedIn: Better than You Thought
LinkedIn was first founded in 2002 as a social network entirely focused on the professional aspect of people’s lives. In time it added job listings and advertising and first became…
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Trades, Teams, and Loyalty
This summer in particular has been packed with NBA news. A Canadian team won the championship for the first time, perhaps in part due to one of the best players…
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Read Like a Gent: The Black Swan by Nicholas Nassim Taleb
The subtitle of this book is “The Impact of the Highly Improbable” and since the book’s initial release the term “black swan” has become a commonly used term to describe…
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World War II Films Worth Watching
This next week marks the 75th anniversary of the landings in Normandy by the Allied Forces that would go on to end a war that involved many parts of the…
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