Drive up the Windward Coast to the North Shore for surfing, stand-up paddle boarding and windy walks out to Kaena Point.

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But Merchant says that she still jots down notes on walks when an important point comes up and that cell phones are just distractions during meetings.

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She walks into a formerly dominant and still asset-rich web company with almost nothing but potential at this point.

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On meandering walks with friends through his childhood East End haunts he would point out both the streets where writers had lived and the old signs, for fresh milk or synagogues, fading on the walls.

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