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#WhyIAmASolo – I Don’t Like Management Teams, And I Don’t Play Well With Others.

April 13, 2023

And, I don’t want to have to go shirtless and wave a flag at meetings to get my ideas heard. In fact, I don’t want to go to management meetings at all. And, I am long past wanting to wear suits, starched white shirts, and nondescript ties to work.

#WhyIAmASolo – Don’t Believe Me, Listen to Owen McGrann.

By rickgeorges

April 12, 2023

Owen McGrann Left BigLaw. This Is His Story. I love it when I see stories like this one. In Owen’s case, it took a life-threatening illness for him to recognize that BigLaw was killing him. He left a six-figure income on the table and has never been happier. I made the solo decision many years

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Nobody Wants To Write An Obituary.

By rickgeorges

April 12, 2023

Some things in life are harder than others. The Stoics believed that recognizing the inevitability of death every day would give impetus to living life to the fullest. Writing obituaries for loved ones is a distasteful but necessary task. When I wrote one for Jacquelyn a few years ago, I was struck by the contradictions

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You Have Only One Day To Live – And Today Is That Day.

By rickgeorges

April 12, 2023

Every life only lasts one day, because all you get is today. If you don’t live it up today, you will have wasted the only day you get. But, you say, what about tomorrow? Well, grasshopper, there is no tomorrow. It never comes. There is only today. Will you live it?

Find My Phone, Please.

By rickgeorges

April 11, 2023

Finding your phone when it’s turned off – a new Android feature? I have been a fan of Find my phone apps ever since I left mine in a Las Vegas restaurant some years ago. Luckily, I had installed one of the new find my phone apps, Lookout mobile security. When SWMBO and I got

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Galaxy Fold 4 – It’s A Phone. No, It’s A Tablet! No, It’s Both!

By rickgeorges

April 10, 2023

Galaxy Fold 4. I love the concept of the Fold 4. It is a regular phone when folded, and not too heavy and thick. Unfolded, it is a good looking mini tablet, at almost 8 inches. I saw a Fold 3 in the wild, and I confess I wanted one. At least, I did until

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A Scorecard For The Ages.

By rickgeorges

April 9, 2023

Those who know me well, know that I enjoy scoring the Rays games. My favorite part time job as a kid when I wasn’t playing Little League baseball was as an Official Scorer for the Jacksonville REcreation Department, and sometimes an umpire. I don’t ever publish the cards; but, today, when the Rays set another

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The Dead Don’t Care About Obituaries.

By rickgeorges

April 9, 2023

If there is a God, the dead have a lot more going on than worrying about what people here say about them. If there isn’t a God, there isn’t an after death consciousness to worry about anything. There are no other options. So, why do we care about what people say about us during

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A Moment’s Peace.

By rickgeorges

April 8, 2023

His nerves were frazzled.

There were too many people congregating in the streets.

Car horns blared,

traffic jostled at the stoplight.

The theaters were crowded,

and the stores were packed.

He endured he incessant rambling

of the preacher on the corner

near the courthouse,

who thought he knew

when the world would end.

He endured

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Welltory – Now I’m A Believer.

By rickgeorges

April 8, 2023

Welltory Heart Rate Monitor. A confession. In the early days of Smartwatches, I was critical of apps that purported to measure physical activity, and prod the user to exercise. I confess that I have not been a big advocate of a lot of exercise. I still am not. However, lucky as I am to have

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