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  1. Jan 2022
  2. Nov 2018
    1. Nigel Travis, who is the Executive Chairman of the Board for Dunkin’ Brands. He has an exercise that he calls “define your demise” (he describes this in his book, The Challenge Culture: Why the Most Successful Organizations Run on Pushback).

      Important to define why and how the company could fail. Provides insight into weaknesses and how to overcome some of them.

      Book is by Chairman of the board for Dunkin' brands.

  3. Feb 2017
    1. Chapter 5

      Chapter 5 seems like a City of Ladies styled listing of evidence for women, but then it's followed by citing how men are approving of these examples. Most of it probably can be accounted for by assuming she primarily has a male audience in mind, though it also seems more in line with Astell's polite, stable approach to the dialogue than Pizan and Grimke's more direct attacks.

  4. Jan 2017
    1. Historians arc therefore in error when they try to evaluate earlier periods using the standards or their own time.

      Gonna put a shoutout to Lolo if she remembers Schiappa and Poulaksos coming to blows on defining Sophism by present standards and if it's possible to get beyond that.