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But so I went offline for just a few hours, thinking to myself, I'm thinking to myself, "Hey self, it looks like there's nothing going to happen Friday afternoon. Yeah, this Kavanaugh thing will just take the vote next week." And then I turn on my phone and it turns out we have a one-week delay. So the president has agreed — I think he just took the lead of Congress to request it — but he's agreed…

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Now you're probably wondering, will this be a big deal or a little deal? Should we worry about this? What's gonna happen? Well, I'll give you my best take on this. So as I often say, your filter on the world depends on your experience and a little bit about how you were born. But if you look at the Kavanaugh situation, you're saying to yourself, well, if you're a woman who's ever had any run-in with sexual abuse, which turns out to be just about every woman, you're automatically looking at it through a filter of, "Hey, people who are accused are usually guilty." If you were a man who has been accused, if you've been unfairly accused of anything, you might be looking at it like Kavanaugh is being unfairly accused. So everybody's bringing their filter to this. You know, you're a Democrat, you're a woman, you're a man, Republican, whatever you are.

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But the other filter that I like to put on this I got from my corporate days. Let's call this the corporate filter. Now the corporate filter is really about any large organization. There are things that are true of a large organization in terms of their inefficiencies, the way they operate, how fast or slow they are. They're sort of common across all large organizations. So the FBI in this case wo…

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