Morning Reading, selected articles of interest from various publications.

How I Did It: Alden Mills of Perfect Fitness
In the office, everyone has a Perfect Pushup by their desks, and we keep two Perfect Pullups on one side of the room along with other fitness products we’re working on. I encourage people to work out there. We have an antique Navy bell, and when someone is excited about something — it doesn’t have to be about business — they’ll ring the bell. And a lot of times they’ll say, “I want everyone to drop down and do some pushups with me!” Sometimes, in the middle of a meeting, we’ll do pushups.
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Les Paul, The man who changed rock music
UNTIL about two months ago a short, slightly bent 93-year-old man would take to the stage every Monday in a New York nightclub. He would place a guitar bearing his name under a right arm permanently set at a right angle, touch the strings with the few working fingers of his arthritic hands and launch into some of the greatest guitar riffs of all time. Few musicians have careers lasting more than eight decades.
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