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Reconnecting with personally important people

I ran across a newspaper article reporting a past employer as having lost tens of millions of dollars last year. This triggered a wide range of memories. Images of people and places and events from 20 years ago formed in my mind, and as those images crystallized, I wondered: what happened to the people who … Continue reading »

What is the value of intuition?

This is a story about a young geologist discovering a new, world-class orebody, and it happened because he was able to see things in a different way than those who came before. Thirty years ago, I was a newly hired mine geologist in a historic mining district in Nevada. As a mine geologist, part of … Continue reading »

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