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This week I met two Silicon Valley execs and I asked them how they were processing the news - "in memes", was the response.
From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2026
Gary’s surprising acquiescence implies how much larger the threat is than he wants to let on — and, worse, it empowers the mobster to ask for more.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2026
He devotes much of the book to how he got his stories—not just the names of his sources, but how he persuaded them to be sources.
From Slate ● Nov. 12, 2026
If you want to understand just how brilliant this is, consider this: According to FactSet, there are 72 different analysts on Wall Street covering Nvidia.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 12, 2026
Emotional response is difficult to measure, but there is one usually reliable sign of how you are feeling—sweaty palms.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
“The hows and the wherefores can wait, but it’s OK to say that I won that battle … by a story means that I wasn’t expecting.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026
The hows are easier to explain than the whys when it comes to all this madness, so let’s start there.
From Salon ● Nov. 7, 2023
Physicists believe that there must have been some primordial imbalance that allowed matter to dominate the universe, yet the hows and whys remain open questions.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 27, 2023
This thoughtfully inclusive guide makes a great starting place, supplying the hows and whys of creating an edible garden to further our personal resilience, strength and healing.
From Seattle Times ● May 12, 2023
I have to hear the hows and whys and what-ifs.
From "American Street" by Ibi Zoboi
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