Stuff without a home that I wrote and don’t know where to put it, so I put it here for your enjoyment. Enjoy!
The Incidents
In a dark-wood-paneled room, the executives gathered. It was a smallish room with 10 leather seats. Most were the same, but some were older and wobblier. The late arrivals got those, unless they were senior executives, in which case the more junior, such as me, would jump up to relinquish a more stable seat and go take a wobbler or lean against the credenza. One window gazed over the Manhattan skyline, one wall hid a whiteboard—these were the days before Zoom would add a giant LCD to every conference. Instead, on the center of the table was a gray starfish, a Polycom speaker that allowed callers to dial in when ...
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