Xavier Bishop

FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 2008
5:35 a.m.: The cell phone alarm chimes quietly. I retrieve it from the nightstand and draw it close to my face.
It’s always my first decision of the day: whether to Dismiss the alarm and get out of bed or take the 10 Minute Snooze. I press the side wheel on the phone […]

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You know, 8 hours is a significant amount of time. It’s one-third of an entire day.  As a workday 8 hours appears to be ample time to get things done. But I figured out that on any given workday roughly 70 percent of my time is spent meeting with someone in one of two ways: […]

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Two long breaths. Then 30 rapid compressions.
Two long breaths. Then 30 rapid compressions.

Anyone past the age of thirty knows that most phone calls you receive at two o’clock in the morning aren’t likely to bear good news.
And so it was for me when my phone rang bedside and I reached over to see […]

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