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What have you learned?

This is always the question, direct or implicit. It’s the theme of every commencement address and more than a few conversations in the principal’s office. It’s the point of pop quizzes and graduate theses.

It’s what Glinda the Good Witch asks Dorothy, after everything Oz – what have you learned?

(Full disclosure: Dorothy does not have a good answer.)

And it’s now our question, or at least mine.

It struck me recently that this past year has all been about reduction, for me. Obviously my social life has been minimized to essentially nonexistent, but thatâ€...