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Steve Barth
November 15, 2007
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Ok, I’m a baaaaad blogger. But things come up. Yesterday I got a frantic call from a friend who has to submit his engineering dissertation next week. He was a nervous wreck. So while I waded through 60 pages of the latest theories on reinforced concrete, I needed him to calm down. I sent him out to the new Reflected Knowledge Executive Leadership Center …

with a bucket and told him to do some light weeding. I thought that was very Zen master of me. Or maybe just very Tom Sawyer, I don’t know. Hi-rise buildings will eventually be a lot safer either way.

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