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Greg Donovan
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Passionate about doing good, well. Leadership. Innovation. Compassion. Integrity. Perpetually curious. Native Rhode Islander thriving on the Great Plains
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Hallmark Card’s surprising contemporary art collection allows employees to enjoy and be stimulated by museum-quality art [Luke Spencer @atlasobscura.com ]
www.atlasobscura.com/articles/why...
Why the Hallmark Card Company Owns Thousands of Priceless Artworks
Exploring the modern art collection at Hallmark HQ in Kansas City.
www.atlasobscura.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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Shamari Jackson, a St. Louis mortician, came to the job after gun violence took her boyfriend’s life. In her work, she’s compassionately cared for the bodies of friends and classmates, as well as strangers [ @ivyscott.bsky.social @themarshallproject.org ]
www.themarshallproject.org/2025/10/17/m...
What Being a Mortician to Homicide Victims Taught Me About Grief
St. Louis native Shamari Jackson began studying mortuary science after her boyfriend was fatally shot. Now she uses her work as a form of therapy.
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November 12, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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“A republic survives only when its citizens see themselves as responsible for its defense. Not only in war, but in peace. Not only in emergencies, but in the steady work of preserving liberty”~ @scottenglish.com #VeteransDay
www.scottenglish.com/p/the-citize...
The Citizen Soldier
Liberty’s Living Thread
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November 11, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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Contentment is peaceful, not passive.
Be content with the present & restless for what’s next.  Restless contentment enjoys today, steps toward the future & believes tomorrow can be better [Dan Rockwell ~ Leadershipfreak] leadershipfreak.blog/2025/09/10/t...
The Art of Restless Contentment - Leadership Freak
Contentment is peaceful, not passive. “Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.”— Thomas A. Edison Be content with the present and restless for what’s next.  Restless contentm...
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November 10, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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Masskrugstemmen - the German name for the increasingly popular sport of steinholding - where participants try to hold a 5-pound glass of beer at arm’s length for as long as they can [Martin Fritz Huber @outsidemag.bsky.social ] www.outsideonline.com/culture/love...
Raise Your Glasses. Now, Hold Them Up Until Your Arms Shake.
Five pounds of lager, one outstretched arm, and the slow creep of regret. This is Type 2 fun at its finest.
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November 9, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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Led by a genuinely gregarious Texan coach, Joey McGuire, and funded by some of the richest oil barons in the world, Texas Tech football aims to rise to a whole new stratosphere [ @rossdellenger.bsky.social @yahoosports.bsky.social ] sports.yahoo.com/college-foot...
Texas, oil and football: How Texas Tech has raised a football monster in no time at all
The Red Raiders are scoring in bunches and stuffing opponents. Their oil-rich boosters are keeping the coffers full. Is this the dawn of a new era for Texas Tech?
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November 8, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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“She’s a diva, an absolute diva,” fourth-generation Washington apple farmer Kait Thornton said of the Honeycrisp - the finicky fruit whose crunch has transformed the industry [Amira McKee @wsj.com ]
www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ho...
America’s Favorite Apple Is a Farmer’s Nightmare
Honeycrisp’s iconic crunch transformed the industry, but for the people who grow the finicky fruit, she’s ‘an absolute diva.’
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November 7, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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From murder scenes to whale blubber, Ben Giles has seen it – and cleaned it – all. In their stickiest hours, people rely on him to restore order [Tom Lamont @theguardian.com ]
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/se...
The human stain remover: what Britain’s greatest extreme cleaner learned from 25 years on the job | Tom Lamont
From murder scenes to whale blubber, Ben Giles has seen it – and cleaned it – all. In their stickiest hours, people rely on him to restore order
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November 6, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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The damaging impact of food delivery on restaurants & the eating experience [Ellen Cushing @theatlantic.com ] www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...
The Innovation That’s Killing Restaurant Culture
Delivery has turned America into a nation of order-inners.
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November 5, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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A deep dive into the preciseness and practices of dedicated Revolutionary War reenactors [ @caity.bsky.social
@theatlantic.com ] www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
You Have No Idea How Hard It Is to Be a Reenactor
Benedict Arnold’s boot wouldn’t come off, and other hardships from my weekend in the Revolutionary War.
www.theatlantic.com
November 4, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Ease defeats us. Difficulty inspires us
* Defiance: An enemy brings out your best. Fighting AGAINST generates instant energy
* No Sugar: Use pain, anger, & fear to energize resolve
* Play to Win: You lose when you play not to lose
~ Dan Rockwell |Leadershipfreak
leadershipfreak.blog/2025/07/23/d...
Desperate Times - Defining Moments - Leadership Freak
Sun Tzu said, “For it is precisely when a force has fallen into harm’s way that is capable of striking a blow for victory.” Desperate times are defining moments. Ease defeats you. Hardship defines you...
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November 3, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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Proud to have played with many highly talented Cape Verdean teammates in leagues in Rhode Island. Now their homeland will be in the #2026WorldCup [Rob Stevens @yahoosports.bsky.social BBC Africa] sports.yahoo.com/article/cape...
Cape Verde become second-smallest nation to reach World Cup
The Atlantic archipelago with a population of just over half a million people makes history by topping its group in African qualifying.
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November 2, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Gambling doesn’t just sponsor sports. It shapes them, deciding which matchups are worth watching & how players are covered. Gambling doesn’t just buy ads. It owns sports networks, producing shows that prod fans to bet ever more [ @joon.bsky.social @nytimes.com ] www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/o...
Opinion | Gambling Is Killing Sports and Consuming America
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November 1, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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From mom-and-pop shops, the Halloween costume business has entered the same frightening stage as numerous industries: Familiar brand names are just masks, concealing a holding company or private equity firm underneath [Mark Dent @thehustle.bsky.social ] media.hubspot.com/the-families...
The families that made Halloween costumes a big business
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October 31, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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The motel might seem like an ageless fixture of the American landscape, but in fact, this roadside mainstay didn’t exist before Dec. 12, 1925 [Megan McCrea @nytimes.com ]
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
100 Years of the Motel (Gift Article)
In 1925, the first motel opened on a California highway, ushering in a new era of convenience and comfort for a nation falling in love with the open road.
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October 30, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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Heartbreaking. Exceptionally crafted look at the effort to pull minors from LA’s Figueroa Street - ‘the Blade’ - one of the most notorious underage sex-trafficking corridors in the United States [Emily Baumgaertner Nunn @nytimes.com ]
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/m...
Can Anyone Rescue the Trafficked Girls of L.A.’s Figueroa Street?
www.nytimes.com
October 29, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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Promising instant gratification to an economically eager audience, ‘Buy Now Pay Later’ has built a delirious new culture of consumption — and trapped users in a vortex of debt [Amy X Wang @nytimes.com ] www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/m...
They Got to Live a Life of Luxury. Then Came the Fine Print.
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October 28, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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Everything you're being sold is framed as lower-friction and higher efficiency.
Everything is about taking the hard and making it easy. But it's time for a harsh truth: The things that matter in life are hard to build [Sahil Bloom] www.sahilbloom.com/newsletter/d...
Death by a Thousand Shortcuts | The Curiosity Chronicle
The Curiosity Chronicle has quickly become one of the most popular newsletters for growth-minded individuals in the world. Each week, subscribers receive a deep dive that covers topics ranging from gr...
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October 27, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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I feel terrible for fans of the Jets, the poor downtrodden souls who didn’t ask for this, and can do nothing whatsoever to change the downhill direction of this misbegotten franchise ~ @jaybusbee.bsky.social
[ @yahoosports.bsky.social ] sports.yahoo.com/nfl/article/...
Jets fans, we’re offering you amnesty. Come jump on another bandwagon.
The Jets, who haven't made the postseason since 2010, have ruined an entire generation of fans.
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October 26, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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it’s easy to wonder how athletes with massive paychecks could jeopardize their entire careers by gambling. The truth that the same traits that make someone become a world-class athlete can make them vulnerable to a gambling addiction [ @jaybusbee.bsky.social ] sports.yahoo.com/nba/article/...
Why do millionaire athletes get involved with gambling?
It’s easy to wonder why athletes with massive paychecks could jeopardize their careers by gambling. But there’s a key flaw in that reasoning: the assumption that money underlies a drive to gamble.
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October 25, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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Misadventures in home cooking: There are lots of potential errors a home cook can make, whether mistaking a bulb of garlic for a clove or experimenting with a banana sauce for pork. Here are some culinary experiments to avoid [ @theguardian.com ] www.theguardian.com/food/2025/oc...
‘I felt my soul leave my body’: 13 readers on the worst meal they ever cooked – from ‘ethanol risotto’ to gravy cake
There are lots of potential errors a home cook can make, whether mistaking a bulb of garlic for a clove or experimenting with a banana sauce for pork. Here are some culinary experiments to avoid
www.theguardian.com
October 24, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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A group of Florida friends thought it would be fun to open a restaurant in the 1980s that “they couldn’t get kicked out of.” Now in their 70s, they’re buying back Hooters franchises with a plan to restore the brand [ @chloesorvino.bsky.social @forbes.com ] www.forbes.com/sites/chloes...
For Hooters’ Original Founders, Saving The Chain Is A Higher Calling: “America Needs Us.”
A group of Florida friends thought it would be fun to open a restaurant in the 1980s that “they couldn’t get kicked out of.” Now in their 70s, they’re buying back franchises with a plan to restore the...
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October 23, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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Morris Rosen, a survivor on a mission, left this world on December 12, 2020, in his adopted hometown of Baltimore, MD. His mission: To be a voice for those who died in the Holocaust [ @scottenglish.com ]
www.scottenglish.com/p/living-to-...
Living to Tell the Story
The Life and Legacy of Morris Rosen
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October 22, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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From dodging bullets in the Black Sea to hiding from police in Tibet, Aina Cederblom lived life on her terms. Her daring, norm-breaking personality is why the museums have chosen to highlight her adventures [Malin Annie Jansson @atlasobscura.com ] www.atlasobscura.com/articles/swe...
The Swedish Female Adventurer Who Sailed Solo Around the World
From dodging bullets in the Black Sea to hiding from police in Tibet, Aina Cederblom lived life on her terms.
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October 21, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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People tend to hate meetings. Here are steps to take to make sure ones you plan are lousy - along with guidance on running good meetings. [@Leadershipfreak] leadershipfreak.blog/2025/08/08/h...
How to Run Lousy Meetings - Leadership Freak
71% of the executives surveyed say meetings are unproductive and inefficient. (HBR)* Responsibility for great meetings always lies with the person who calls them. Great meetings require preparation. I...
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October 20, 2025 at 12:44 PM