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Reflecting on 500

I’m writing this from 30,000ft in the air on the trip my family was supposed to take exactly one year ago today. We didn’t go because, while we didn’t exactly know what was about to happen in the world, we knew things would get strange. But that’s a story for a different day, and, quite […]

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Fish Stink From the Head

ETE REMAN’s founder, Sam Loshak, is known for his many insightful and pithy statements. We’ve regularly refer to his statements as “Sam-isms.” One of Sam’s most frequent reminders to ETE’s leadership is “fish stink from the head.” What Sam means is that the worst smelling part of a dead fish is its head. But what Sam […]

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Own Your Ugly

I cry. I ugly cry. I get jealous. I get professional jealousy. I am short. I sell myself short. I procrastinate. I procrastinate on my dreams. I judge. I often judge quickly without the correct amount of information to do so. I eat donuts. I eat a lot of donuts. My hair does this thing […]

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New Year's Reflections

As 2016 nears its end, it’s common to start to reflect on the previous year: the good, the bad, the ugly, the stuff that made us smile, the stuff that we want to close our eyes and forget. In the shop, you might be cleaning up invoices, doing inventory of the parts you have and […]

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Dear Girl-Who-Knows-Literally-Nothing

Dear girl-who-knows-literally-nothing, Ok, that’s a little harsh. You do know some things – important things like the value of hard work and how to respect your professional elders. But, contrary to popular belief, you do not know it all. No worries, though. You’re really just beginning. In the next 1,460 days (four years for those […]

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Lynyrd Skynyrd. Turkey. And You.

I took my daughters to see the movie Freebirds a few weeks back. Now, before you go getting yourself all excited about the idea of a Lynyrd Skynyrd rockumentary, refocus your eyes and realize there was an “s” at the end of that word. Freebirds is one of the worst movies I’ve ever seen. The […]

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