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The Human Constraint
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The Human Constraint

by Angela Montgomery
August 2024
Intermediate to advanced
282 pages
10h 58m
English
Productivity Press
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Chapter 29The Original Thought

DOI: 10.4324/9781032644288-30

December 5, 2012

Citigroup is going to cut 11,000 jobs worldwide after nearly collapsing during the financial crisis.

Vancouver Island, January 2013

Sam waved goodbye to the faces of May and the Rabbi on the screen, then quit Skype. Their weekly study session together was over, and he was alone again. He closed his laptop and got up to make coffee. The same motions, repeated, of rinsing, filling, and setting the moka on the stove top always calmed his mind and eased the pain. Seeing May on Skype was painful. People thought it was a good way to stay connected, but seeing her face in pixels seemed like a cruel, technological joke. When he wrote to her, he imagined her close to him in ...

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