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Thomas Jefferson, a gifted inventor and architect, acquired the largest personal collection of books of its time in the country, established West Point, founded UVA, abolished the slave trade, doubled the size of the United States, and somewhere in...
According to his grandson, he was an “absolute miser with his time” who spent every moment in pursuit of knowledge. And yet, he never owned a database (an electronic one, anyway.) And right now, HEAV doesn’t either. Just 26 days before the convention, the words “Termination Letter” appeared in my inbox. Shockingly, the company providing HEAV’s customer management system was terminating our account on June 30th. Why? Because they weren’t earning enough money from HEAV. No extension of time to find a new system. No appeals heard. No mercy given. It didn’t matter that 12,000 of our nearest and dearest...