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I absolutely love make-ahead breakfast (or brunch) casseroles, especially if I have overnight guests or am hosting a holiday gathering. Preparing these types of casseroles couldn’t be simpler and it’s done a day in advance. A perfect option when time is tight. French toast casseroles are typically made with brioche, challah, sourdough, or French bread. Those bread choices are usually made with refined, low-fiber, wheat flour (aka, white flour). From a health standpoint, it would be beneficial to use a whole-wheat bread instead.

Warren Buffett wrote in his 1996 letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders: “You don’t have to be an expert on every company, or even many. You only have to be able to evaluate companies within your circle of competence. The size of that circle is not very important; knowing its boundaries, however, is vital.” He also said on a separate occasion: “What counts for most people in investing is not how much they know, but rather how realistically they define what they don’t know.

From 2010 to 2015, I was an avid fan of the crime drama Justified on FX and in particular, Timothy Olyphant’s portrayal of U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens, who projected a Wild West bravado in his signature Stetson hat while always maintaining an even-keeled, boundaries-heavy right-side-of-justice vibe. The premise of this show being that after many years away, Givens is reassigned to his hometown of Harlan, Kentucky where his first priority is to catch baddie crime bosses.

Hey, “wrecking crew” (a reference to a gang we know nothing about yet in this show but have heard plenty of overt rumblings over). Note: No real spoilers. Just commentary. We are now past the Gator lands of bygone Justified years as well as this season’s episode 1 and firmly planted in the Motor City aka Detroit, for episodes 2 and 3 of the critically lauded Justified: City Primeval. It’s fair to say Detroit will be our locale mainstay for the duration of the show and like any show worth its storytelling salt, the backdrop of Detroit almost becomes another character in and of itself, melding itself to the vibe of this season well.

I really enjoy going back to old recipes, seeing where they’re at and what can be improved. Some recipes don’t need any polishing, some are begging for a little TLC. This éclair cake dessert recipe I developed for Food52 last year belongs to the second category — this new and improved version has a better structure, a creamier filling, a silkier ganache, and it’s an absolute showstopper. Hope you enjoy,

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“Nelson Mandela reminds us that it always seems impossible until it is done”. — Barack Obama In 35 years hands-on experience helping organisations throughout Europe, Asia, and the US create future-fit cultures of innovation, agility, and adaptiveness I’ve often encountered deeply entrenched beliefs about what is and isn’t possible. And not just in others. I’ve run into some seriously limiting perspectives of my own, rooted in uncritical acceptance of unexamined assumptions and received wisdom that only fell away when I’d witnessed, in practice, things I’d previously perceived impossible.

It feels a little Throwback Thursday to talk about the hack and dump of the Clinton/Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee/Democratic National Committee emails from 2016 — I mean, haven’t we had enough of, “But her emails”? We have, but it’s important to revisit this aspect of Russia’s election interference to understand the current moment, including the Hunter Biden Laptop scandal, the so-called “Twitter files,” and the whole clown show involving Representative Jim Jordan’s “weaponization of government” committee.

Some inside the CIA began to recognize a basic problem in its approach to the ideological confrontation that was the Cold War, barely a decade after fighting had stopped in Europe: focusing on the strengths of the Soviet Union meant neglecting one’s own strengths. ‘Concentration on the enemy’s techniques has tended to result in the overlooking of potential psychological weapons which originate in, and are peculiar to, the free world,’ the CIA wrote in one project outline.