by Susan Gates | Apr 15, 2020
Photo by Eco Warrior Princess on Unsplash It’s hard being non-essential. Millions of workers have been shocked to learn that what they spend 40 hours a week doing, in the end, is non-essential in these virus-stricken days. Non-essentiality began...
by Susan Gates | Apr 10, 2020
Photo by Hans Eiskonen on Unsplash In 2008 Jere Van Dyk spent 45 days as a Taliban hostage. In this week’s Wall Street Journal he draws on that experience to advise those of us now isolated by an enemy of a different sort. What are his keys to...
by Susan Gates | Jul 18, 2019
Bear with me. I am drinking red wine. But I want to tell you a story. But first know, I love you very much. In the background is a TV documentary on the trials and triumph of the US space program. I was ten years old when Apollo launched and Neil and Buzz put feet on...
by Susan Gates | Oct 17, 2018
Photo by Nina Strehl on Unsplash Searching for a single smoking gun to explain the financial crisis is a fool’s errand. So many hands, so many set-ups, so many agendas–combined with massive movements of capital from all parts of the world–puts this crisis...
by Susan Gates | Oct 10, 2018
Photo by Tom Pumford on Unsplash The horrible news spread quickly, thanks to morning radio. I was preparing to take my daughter to the orthodontist when someone reached me with the news that our acting CFO, David Kellerman, was found dead from an apparent suicide. The...
