I read a lot of books about business, but it just recently came to me that I was reading them for the wrong reasons. I’ve always read books with the expectation that I would get the right information on how to build my own thing. Take these characteristics from this guy and those characteristics from […]
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Books to Read – April 2011
It’s a day late, but here is my April list of must-reads. There are only two this month, but both are excellent. War by Sebastian Junger I don’t know where to begin with this book. It is one of the best books I have ever read. This is the first book by Sebastian Junger I […]
What a doctors’ visit really costs
There is a school of thought that one of the ways to help fix the health care problems in the US is for everyone to understand the true cost of providing care. If you have insurance, what you pay does not resemble in any way the actual cost is. There are many articles where you […]
Sorry, Girl Talk. I Don’t Get It
I was in Phoenix last week and had the opportunity to go see Girl Talk “live.” I say “live” because, while Mr. Talk was definitely alive, as was the arena, the music was not. I don’t mean it wasn’t a quality production, but at the essence of things, he is really just clicking a mouse […]
Project-based education
I met Chris Lehmann from Science Leadership Academy on the way to Austin last Saturday. Chris runs a school in Philadelphia called Science Leadership Academy ( scienceleadership.org ). I would highly recommend that you spend some time on their site reading about what he has done. Chris has managed to build a standout school in […]
A Recap of SXSW 2011
I just got home today from a great but tiring trip to Austin for the SXSW Festival. This is the first time I have attended the event, and it was both more and less than what I expected. The conference was much larger than I anticipated. The rumors put the number of Interactive attendees at […]
LegalZoom and Password Resets
The other day I got an alert from LegalZoom telling me that I had some filing deadlines approaching for a company I have an interest in. When I clicked on the link and went to log in, I had one of those moments where I just could not remember my account information. I tried my […]
The Harvard of…
I like it when people refer to things as “The Harvard of…”. I thought I would compile my own list of “The Harvard of…” Harvard – The Oxford of the US University of Virginia – The Harvard of the South Davidson College – The Harvard of the South for those who went to Davidson Duke […]
Books To Read – March 2011
The Warmth Of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration By Isabel Wilkerson I stumbled across this book thanks to Amazon’s recommendation engine. This book re-tells the story of three Americans as they migrated themselves and their families from the segregated, oppressive South to the more free, less oppressive North. Their stories are […]
Are Sanctions the Answer in Libya?
I don’t understand how sanctions against Libya are supposed to force Gadhafi from power. Economic sanctions hurt the very people we are trying to help, the citizens of Libya. The people of Libya are already sufficiently pissed off with their situation to risk death in the streets for freedom. How about we think of creative […]