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we haven’t established how we’re going to overcome that. We could go on this path for a while. Me in my life, you in yours, but eventually, what will we have? Two people who might love each other who haven’t built a life together. I don’t want that.”

None of us are safe. None of us know when the timer is going to go off. I don’t want to waste any more of my life hiding or being scared. I don’t want to waste any more time worrying about things I can’t control.”

The way you treated me—from the beginning—you were very natural about it. The way you took care of me. The way you checked in with me when we weren’t together. Part of me worried it was love-bombing. The other part of me thought that maybe you’d done all this before

A bad boy that sees you as the center of his entire world.” Her eyes grew misty. “A bad boy who promises you everything and actually delivers. That’s the secret to falling in love with a bad boy.”

Sometimes we have to stop looking at our lives through the lenses of what makes sense. Has making sense made you happy?”

. “A man who protects what’s his.”

“when a man really likes you, it doesn’t matter how busy he is. He’ll reply”

“Sometimes we don’t like the truth, even if it comes from the person we love most in this world”

listening to the audio book for MBA class "innovation"

o What Coke realized is that it may not make sense to compete the same way in all markets.
o Compete in a way that neither ignores the differences across countries nor caves into them entirely – that is, it recognizes the reality of semiglobalization
• Coke notes:
o Goizueta 81-97
o Vester 97-00 standardization and centralization
o Daft 00-04 Localization
o Isdell 04- Managing similarities and differences

o Technological drivers of increased cross-border integration may be irreversible, we cannot say the same about policy drivers. Policy-drivers therefore, an even shakier basis for apocalyptic visions of the complete cross-border integration.
o It is possible to turn the clock back on globalization-friendly policies- commonly seen in times of war, sovereignty, etc.

o Two drivers of cross-borderer integration that have been emphasized the most by apocalyptic
•Technological improvements, particularly in communications technologies
•Policy changes that have engaged more countries in the world economy
•Do these two important forces really push us toward an integrated world in the near term?

• Chapter 1 – Semiglobalization and Strategy CONT.

•Goal – stretch our thinking about cross-border strategies for a semiglobalizated world
•Semiglobalization is the real state of the world today

o Popular texts focus on apocalyptic argumentation: emotional rather than cerebral appeals, reliance on prophecy, treating things as a sign, emphasis on creating ‘new’ people, and attention.

Chapter 1 – Semiglobalization & Strategy
o Apocalyptic vision leads to a focus on strategies for a post-apocalyptic, integrated world
•Strategies with a one-size-fits-all character
•Redefine global strategy to to describe a broader set of strategic possibilities
•Differences btw countries are larger than generally acknowledged
•Strategies for global integration focus too much on international standardization

o Arbitrage is the simultaneous purchase & sale of the same asset in different markets in order to profit from tiny diffs in the asset's listed price. Exploits short-lived variety in price of similar financial instruments in different markets or forms.
o Goal – Finish this book with a refined sense of what global strategies really entail and can translate those insights into action – and profit from them.

Introduction (page 4)
o Globalization remains, in many respects, uneven and incomplete.
o Development of CAGE framework – Cultural, administrative, geographic, and economic differences between countries
o Strategies for dealing with differences between locations
•Forgoing local identity, adapting to particular locations
•Aggregated across boarders
•Poorer clubs assist in arbitrage

things that made the world flat:
falling of berlin wall
Personal computers and communication devices
computers/internet
9/11

Paper Book - Reading for Grad School

Audio Book - Listening for Grad School

THe fourth book of the series, and frankly hardest to get my hands on. It's basically book 3 (Serafina and Remo) told through Kiara (FMC of book 2)'s perspective. Which is fine by me Kiara is a fantastic FMC

Hmmm the first book has such great storyline and this isn’t starting out in a promising way 🤞🤞 I’m just picky after such a good first book in the series

51 days of 2022 I have read 46 books... but I'm not sure what to read next!! Recs? Contemporary Romance is my usual go to. Sex Clubs, surprise babies, Age gaps, AlphAholes are all pluses!

“Women are so needy,” he complained. “ you always need a man to tell you how how you are.”
“No, we just need a man to not make little disparaging comments about our looks all the time-making us wonder if maybe there’s a grain of truth to all the jokes.”