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A Thousand Gentle Touches
I say often that leadership is option management. If someone has too many options, they might get bogged down. If they feel stuck, sometimes you have to open up an option that wasn't originally there.
Another facet of leadership at any level of an organization is around being connected to the pulse of as many people as possible. This scales with your role, but instead of going down, I feel it's the opposite: leaders at the top should spend even more time checking in on the organization.
A Thousand Gentle Touches
I just spent the last few days at a very important ecosystem event. On the ground, I had no specific duties. I assigned myself the role of support: did our president need anything? Was our CMO feeling good? Product team getting some great feedback? That was my primary role: overwatch.
But the most important work I did this week involved checking in with as many people as I could where it made sense. I put myself in places where they could step out and 

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The Power of the Powerless
Vaclav Havel October, 1978
A SPECTER is haunting Eastern Europe: the specter of what in the West is called “dissent” This specter has not appeared out of thin air. It is a natural and inevitable consequence of the present historical phase of the system it is haunting. It was born at a time when this system, for a thousand reasons, can no longer base itself on the unadulterated, brutal, and arbitrary application of power, eliminating all expressions of nonconformity. What is more, the system has become so ossified politically that there is practically no way for such nonconformity to be implemented within its official structures.
Who are these so-called dissidents? Where does their point of view come from, and what. importance does it have? What is the significance of the “independent initiatives in which “dissidents collaborate, and what real chances do such initiatives have of suc- cess? Is it appropriate to refer to “dissidents as an opposition? If so, what exactly is such an op

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import java.util.Date;
import java.util.HashMap;
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Evaluation Summary
Dylan is a thirteen-year-old 7th grader at Graland Country Day School in Denver, Colorado. He was referred for a psychoeducational re-evaluation by his parents and school staff due to concerns of poor sustained attention, mental fogginess, executive functioning deficits and declining grades. Dylan has previously received speech language support for articulation and physical therapy for fine motor and balance issues. While Dylan also has a history of reading intervention support at school, he is only receiving learning intervention support for organization, homework and study skills at this time. In addition to ADHD, Dylan’s parents also indicated mild anxiety symptoms surrounding germs and the need to frequently hand wash. The present evaluation attempts to offer diagnostic clarification, as well as to determine what additional support he would benefit from.
Dylan’s full scale IQ and General Ability Index (GAI) on the WISC-V are in the very high range. His visual spatial skills continue to 

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# MIT License

# Copyright (c) 2016 Chandler Abraham

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# of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
# in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
# to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
# copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
# furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

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    while (true) {
        let startTime = Math.floor(Date.now());
        let nextNumber = getNextNumber();
        if (testNumberForPrime(nextNumber)) {

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