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A couple of decades ago, I met a cab driver named Janice who drove me home from the airport. She was a woman in her early sixties who described how she lived in Panama for most of the year and came back to San Francisco to work each autumn. “I earn all the money I need for the rest of the year in just about three months here.”
It’s your last day at work. Your colleagues took you out to lunch last week, and you received a packet of papers from HR. Now you’re walking out of your office carrying a banker’s box full of personal effects. Congratulations, you’ve been disrupted. You weren’t fired. This was your idea: you just retired.
When the Michelin brothers Andre and Edouard began their travel guide in 1900 as a marketing tool for their tire company, there were fewer than 3,000 cars in France. The roads were a primitive, local network, often unmarked, and there were no gas stations – drivers had to carry a metal container into a pharmacy to purchase fuel.
After yesterday’s stock market drop, the usual alarming news articles appeared, but more interesting were the reader comments that tracked each publication’s editorial focus:
“Stocks Plunge, as Fresh Tensions With China Batter Tech Shares,” The New York Times:
Well now. The stock market is starting to display the same kind of unpredictable behavior exhibited by Trump since before he was elected, not quite knowing how to respond to the conflicting stimuli heaped upon the economy in the many months afterward. Gee...didn't see that coming.
