A long snippet, but it has important things to say about solitude, inquiry, creating new knowledge, innovation and scholarship: the importance of “alone time” from a thoughtful article Games, consultants Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister compared the work of more than 600 computer programmers at 92 companies. They found that people from the same […]
Month: January 2012
Patton in the California desert, and the best coffee I ever tasted
i just love that desert; i miss sitting in the dirt and making a little stove for coffee and going to hang out with the mechanics. thats the best coffee I ever tasted I like how simple Patton’s HQ and his entourage are. A dirt soldier at heart who understand war Related articles Desert training […]
The irreplaceable tax cheat Tim Geithner
That there are 36 Obama aides who owe back taxes is great news for the country which had just learned at the State of the Union speech that Tim “Tax Cheat” Geithner wouldn’t be around for a second term as Treasury Secretary. We now have an expanded pool of candidates to take over from Geithner, […]
Waiting for superman: the sad story of American schools
Heartbreaking condition of our schools. The nation will go into debt to fund the military industrial complex, but we cant fund kids to go to quality schools. Sold our soul for oil and stock options Watching the lottery draw to see which 100 of the 500 kids gets to win the success lottery by being […]
Making the Invisible Visible: Understanding Leadership Contributions of Asian Minorities in the Workplace
This small quiet book on leadership deserves to become visible so that its message of quiet leadership can be absorbed into our business and political organizations worldwide. Who are the invisible leaders? How do we make them visible? Back up for a moment: SHOULD we MAKE them visible, or is our understanding of leadership in […]
Surprise: hipsters fail to motivate themselves into action
it would’ve been a sad day for the Republic if Stephen Colbert’s latest idiotic attempt at cynical satire had further disrupted national politics in South Carolina. it is reassuring that so few people actually took him up on his promise of adding even more chaos to the Republican primary process. Colbert is becoming just a […]
Santorum is Romney’s last, best friend
Since Romney seems unable to tell the simple truth about Gingrish’s unfitness for executive leadership, it’s up to Santorum , who is unelectable, to do the dirty work. There is a cabinet position for santorum in the Romney administration, hey, maybe even the VP position, if he carries the water for Mr Bland Related articles […]
Gingrich: an inch deep and a mile wide, his own anti-message
What a disaster for the Republicans Gingrich is. having had 3 years to craft a message of hope, growth, opportunity and fiscal sanity, they have found themselves worshipping the mouth that roared. Gingrich’s personal life evidences such a lack of discipline that it undermines the party’s claims of bringing sober, responsible, controlled limited government to […]
David walker: truth-teller
Time for the adults to take charge: here is a candid assessment by a guy who is so honest that I am surprised he hasnt had a car accident financial condition is bad and getting worse; last 8 years have been catastrophic need tough budget controls, tax reform, and entitlement reform out of control health […]
Obama locks up the illegal alien vote
The Republicans are so busy barking at the moon that they pay no notice to the Democrats reinforcing their position as the party of the much sought after illegal alien vote This should come as no surprise, as the President has been working hard on this issue for the Amurrican peeple Related articles Pamela Powers […]