(2 of 3) you skip past Trust and Trust-and-Verify to Until You Put It In My Fucking Hand, Nothing's Happened. Same rule if your negotiating partner or his agents lied to you in the past *even once*.

If your job concerns public opinion and public opinion's on your side, it's leverage—not irrelevent.

I feel like placing the blame for that on the person who sold them the drink is... dubious at best.

If we want to sell commercial sodas from a cart at the park, we need $1 million in liability insurance. What, precisely, I could do that would cause $1 million dollars in damage with a can of cola is beyond me.

Tech Bros Understanding Dystopian Tech is Bad Challenge once again failed, even at difficulty level zero.

Mine sits on the counter and pokes me with her paw every time I walk past for about an hour before dinner every night.