I think we need to make 2012 a year of learning – but, it won’t be easy. I believe in life-long learning. I am a big fan of every effort to keep learning. Our monthly First Friday Book Synopsis is designed to whet the appetite of such life-long learners. I like to read, I like… Read More The Learning Illusion – a Challenge for 2012
Tyler Cowen is an “infovore.” An economist (he wrote The Great Stagnation – a terrific, provocative book!), he reads more than anyone else that I know of (I think he may even read more than our blogging colleague, Bob Morris. And that’s saying something). Mr. Cowen travels a lot, and he always has a stack… Read More From Tyler Cowen: We Are All Infovores Now – Let’s Get Good/Better At It
We’re going to be hearing a lot about jobs in the coming days. We should have been hearing about it more, a whole lot more, but there have been too many fires to put out. And the bad news is they are not out. They are not contained. (I intend this metaphorically, but at this… Read More “That Used To Be Us” – “The Great Stagnation” – Still, We Keep Asking, Where Will the Jobs Be?
“The minute that the Republican Party becomes the party – the anti-science party, we have a huge problem. We lose a whole lot of people who would otherwise allow us to win the election in 2012,” Jon Huntsman, the former Utah governor said in an interview that aired Sunday on ABC’s “This Week.” Huntsman: GOP can’t… Read More “Anti-Science” – Not a Good Idea
My wife’s mother read the newspaper. I mean she really read the newspaper — from cover to cover. (She passed away last summer). When she would visit us, in Los Angeles and later in Dallas, the Sunday paper was a big challenge for her. She would sit in the chair, and tackle that massive stack… Read More Some Books Just Aren’t Worth Reading all the Way to the End
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