But as I watched the Model S roll out the door, it struck me what a survivor its factory has become.

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But then, as I watched my own kids, I marvelled at how they gradually learned how to delay and how that made so many other things possible.

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At one point in the eighties, I owned over 10 percent of NYT, but I watched in frustration as management bartered away serious money for the aging Cowles magazine stable, invested in the teaching machine craze and divested a promising foothold in a cable TV system.

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But as I walked around various gift shops and watched people purchase bag after bag of Disney products, I wondered what the ultimate fate of most of the goods would be.

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But as soon as that was done, I watched the money I had once thought would be a down payment on my own place someday dwindle, owing to the additional expense of health insurance.

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As I watched Topher Grace and Dennis Quaid "standing on their heads" I couldn't help but draw some comparisons to Microsoft's upside-down WMV strategy.

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