The first rough draft
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This whole business of ours, a newspaper publisher once said, is nothing but the first rough draft of history.
On Friday, I was working on this thing about the 20th anniversary of Bill Gates stepping down as CEO of Microsoft.
I published it on Inc.com Sunday. You can read it here, if you like.
But, I realize now it was one of those “rough drafts.” I wrote…
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