“Although I did not call my home office the “Virtuous Scheme Laboratory” back then, I’ve used the term often over the years after hearing a guy I sometimes think of as the “Buddha of Business” named Dean Jackson use a similar phrase. Certainly, what I was doing in that office was “scheming” with the stubborn tenacity of Wile E. Coyote to find a way out of hell without sacrificing my intelligence or believing in some vapid god that couldn’t possibly exist.”