Tag: Chicago

Friedman’s Law of Triangular Relationships

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: the odds of a commercial relationship involving three or more parties going off the rails are far higher than commercial relationhips involving two parties. There’s a reason for this. Say that three parties, called A, B and C, are working together […]

On the Occasion of September the 11th, 2006: A Reflection on Power

Five years on, all of us remember back. For me it is the sound of the sadly-NPR-departed Bob Edwards wafting up through my pillow speaker (a piece of technology that has vastly improved my marriage) saying in a very calm voice and not, apparently, as part of a breaking-in-to-tell-you-some-breaking-news sort […]