When Mario Savio introduced the Free Speech Movement to the world with his famous speech on UC Berkeley’s Sproul Plaza in 1964, he started off with a few unexceptional remarks before getting to the famous part about putting “your bodies upon the gears” of the American corporate machine. Here’s part of what he said: I'd like to say — like to say one other thing about a union problem. Upstairs you may have noticed they're ready on the 2nd floor of Sproul Hall, Locals 40 and 127 of the Painters Union are painting the inside of the 2nd floor of Sproul Hall.

My cell was reading John’s account of Jesus calling his disciples, and they wondered why Andrew and Peter were so willing to follow Jesus. The narrator is trying to get us to see Jesus as a prophet, and a figure above John the Baptist. John the Baptist models the Jesus Way by declaring that he must decrease, and Jesus must increase. Jesus continues modeling this by insisting that John, who claimed he couldn’t even untie Jesus’ sandals, baptize him.

Building products across India, SE Asia and Europe, I have first-hand witnessed the contribution and impact of Marty Cagan’s work on the product world. Once in many decades, someone brings a near absolute clarity on craftsmanship of a field and Marty Cagan brought that moment to the product world through his famous book INSPIRED and his other works. By now, most of us who have read Marty’s works know (by heart) that Product Manager is fully responsible for the value (Will customers find value in the product?

This piece originally appeared in Dirt on January 23rd, 2023, in a better-edited form. This is the director’s cut which means it’s a little too long and meandering, but so it goes. Support Dirt for great stuff 5 days a week.“Consider submerging yourself in the canon of great works. Read the finest literature, watch the masterpieces of cinema, get up close to the most influential paintings, visit architectural landmarks, there’s no standard list, no one has the same standard of greatness, the canon is continually changing across time and space…” - Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way Of Being

Good morning! Today is Wednesday, August 21, 2019. Need to subscribe? Sign up for free here (charlotteledger.substack.com). Send to a friend. Nearly a year ago, a group of about 90 doctors with Mecklenburg Medical Group left parent company Atrium Health to launch an independent practice — Tryon Medical Partners. It was one of the Charlotte area’s biggest healthcare stories of the year, as it defied the trend toward industry mergers and consolidations. The doctors pushed Atrium to allow them to leave by filing a lawsuit that claimed the hospital system was “self-serving” and “monopolistic” and run by a “bloated management bureaucracy.