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Running a CNC Swiss Medical Shop, with Shawn Gaskin–Ep. 161

Our guest on the podcast today is Shawn Gaskin, owner of Swiss Technologies of New England and Stone Medical in Plainville, Massachusetts. Shawn started Swiss Technologies over 20 years ago, with one L20 Citizen making parts out of sterling silver for Tiffany and Company. Over the years, his company has

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Better With Age

Are you getting better with age? The question came up for me watching Tom Brady’s virtuoso performance in the Super Bowl. He threw for over

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Stealing Signs

Chris Correa, an employee of the St. Louis Cardinals Major League Baseball team, hacked into the computer system of the Houston Astros. Over a period

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Can’t Think of Anything

I’ve started this piece several times over the last two weeks, and each time I got deflected and went on to something else like eating,

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My Syrian Driver

Last weekend I took a Uber downtown. After a few minutes of chit chat, my driver told me he was an immigrant from Syria who

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Have a Good Password?

Maybe the pen is mightier than the sword, or so it seems in the worlds of crime and, lately, politics. What with the Russians hacking

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