I made the sojourn into campus this morning to have some coffee and talk shop with a colleague. We had an enjoyable discussion for an hour in the recently opened library branch of the global abomination that is Starbuck's . Can someone explain to me. . . Why on earth do cities like Vienna and Rome even need them? I am of two minds here. Starbuck's is handy in a lot of instances. The coffee isn't bad. Somewhat better than what is sold in the competing, campus owned and run Sparty's . And the space in the library, occupied by a branch of Sparty's until early last May, is redesigned, bright, airy, and clean with plenty of new tables, chairs, and outlets for laptop computers, tablets, and recharging phones. All very convenient. Yet it is locally owned, non-corporate cafes that have the character and quirkiness that makes them interesting places in which to kill time, work, and people watch. Why the campus town adjacent to my employer does not have a bette
Robert Greene summarised this concept very well in his book '48 Laws of Power'. He said, "When you are trying to impress people with words, the more you say, the more common you appear, and the less in control. The more you say, the more likely you are to say something foolish."
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Mark
That sounds interesting. I must find and read it. My maternal grandmother had a similar saying (I'm sure she heard it somewhere as a girl). Give certain people enough rope, and they'll hang themselves with it more often than not.
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Heinz-Ulrich von B.