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Being Non-Transactional.

Beyond "What's in it for me?"

6 hours ago 3 votes
Playing with Politics

Everything is permitted but nothing is possible.

a week ago 11 votes
The Man Who Nearly Woke Up.

Narrative found hidden in an HR Textbook.

2 weeks ago 12 votes
De quoi parlons-nous quand nous parlons de négociations ?

Another of my essays in French.

2 weeks ago 10 votes
A Swan-song For Europe

It didn't have to be this way.

3 weeks ago 21 votes

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Beyond "What's in it for me?"

6 hours ago 3 votes
Do you want to be a synonym?

I had a dinner with a friend tonight and we spoke of how the new era which has just begun makes lots of our knowledge, or the ways of thinking, about international relations, economic policies, poverty and wealth etc.

15 hours ago 3 votes
The Madness of Messalina

What Sort of Woman Makes History?

5 hours ago 1 votes
When Jorge Luis Borges met one of the founders of AI

One reason I became a historian is the joy of encountering moments in the past that are foreign, yet also oddly familiar.

2 hours ago 1 votes
Fiction is truer than fact

Willing suspension of disbelief is not a good basis for lawmaking

9 hours ago 1 votes