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Reflections: 35,000 Feet

Open Question How might it be possible to inform the great unwashed (first class) multitudes that it is impolite to recline their seats in a spastic lurch rearward, on a flight where the pitch (regrettably) results in their seat backs approaching the proximity of my nose with stunning suddenness, threatening to crunch my laptop (were […]

Respect Inversions

Vacations, perhaps especially on tropical islands, create inversions of our normal routines. Instead of a steady block of workdays being punctuated by weekend breaks, we loll in continuos leisure, perhaps interrupted occasionally by the odd email or call that needs immediate servicing. Then, when the weekend arrives, it's time to head back home… and to […]

A Small Step Forward

Idea for how students should be prep'd for the president's talk to them on Tuesday… The teachers should say something like this: We're a country built on ideas. Some of these ideas end up as laws that govern the basic rights, responsibilities and duties we have as citizens. Others shape how our money is spent, […]

Changing Health Care: What’s the Challenge?: The Balance Sheet : The New Yorker

Not to beat up on David Brooks two days in a row, but his Op-Ed piece in today’s Times is a bit peculiar. Brooks’s argument in the piece is that instead of pushing for incremental reform, the Obama Administration should be pushing for fundamental reform, and particularly that it should be pushing for the kinds […]

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I built this site (in 2004) around the idea that the conventional divisions between professional and personal life are artificial. They don't reflect how we live, work, and play today.

I don't shut down my professional responsibilities (with rare exceptions) on evenings, weekends, or holidays. Our competitive environment doesn't permit that, and I'd get bored.

Further, it occurs to me that if you are interested in doing business with me somehow, you should be interested in Rich Bravman, the person.

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Richard's books

Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away

by Rebecca Goldstein

The Baby Boom: How It Got That Way (And It Wasn�t My Fault)

by P.J. O'Rourke

Alice in Quantumland: An Allegory of Quantum Physics

by Robert Gilmore

Gone Girl

by Gillian Flynn

We Can All Do Better

by Bill Bradley

Read this and regain at least a modicum of faith in the presence of wisdom among the leadership class in this world. Unfortunately, Bradley is past his impact moment, and his exemplar of a new way forward ("Americans Elect") foun...

Reflections: 35,000 Feet

Respect Inversions

A Small Step Forward

Changing Health Care: What’s the Challenge?: The Balance Sheet : The New Yorker

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