It's hard to say, but perhaps it began, thinking back, with the Scandinavian crime sagas — by Stieg Larsson, Henning Mankell, Jo Nesbø et al – that we all began gobbling up in increasingly vast quantities around the turn of the century.
Well, "A Visit from the Goon Squad" has such an open-ended quality to it that I began thinking about writing about other people in it almost immediately.
These were my thoughts as I sat over a bowl of fusilli in the restaurant Sfoglia on a recent afternoon, and I confess I was well into my second glass of wine — and, quite frankly, near the bottom of it — when I began thinking them.
Arriving at work at 9 AM, I began thinking it was funny that no one around me had a clue that I was on a drug taken by pilots, ER doctors, and Silicon Valley millionaires.
I love that kind of stuff, but I began thinking that it could be simpler.
But after hours of dragging footlong lures at 8 knots, I began thinking that it could be the big fish that have not endured.
Toyota has identified 60 locales where it has seen this occur, according to James E. Lentz, the president of Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A., and it has begun thinking about whether it needs to open satellite offices to serve customers who've moved away from suburban dealerships.
We were so moved by it and began thinking about what it must have been like in these small towns that got bypassed.
While loveLife began operations in 1999, it wasn't until 2005 when it lost over one-third of its funding, which had come from the private sector, that it really began thinking about how to engage the public sector and increase government participation.
While GoGoVan's exit was its merger, Lalamove is looking to remain independent and it has begun thinking about an IPO, which could take place in Hong Kong, its head of international Blake Larson told TechCrunch.
