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 […]
Dispatch from Maui
Some random observations from our time in paradise: Peter from Westchester, discernible accent from one county to the south, golf partner, who commented on the first tee that he couldn't get over how beautiful it is here. Seeing it fresh through his eyes… he's right. Mark, larger than life character with physical proportions to match, […]
Observations
Yesterday, I wrote about introspection and pending career choices. Here's a first pass list of some of the things I've noted in the process so far, about myself and work life: In my experience, laughter and success are almost perfectly correlated. I do best when working around intellectually honest people entirely commited to winning. I'm […]
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