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 […]
Category: Creativity
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 […]
Who should bear the risk? who should be the judge of value?
If we have decied that our banks are too large to fail, then how about the following idea? 1. When an individual and a bank agree on a loan, its based on a shared estimate of the value of the home. 2. When a bank decides to underwrote a speculation then both the individual and […]
The 4 part learning journal
My dissertation research involving planning and managing a network of related Participatory Action Research projects. For most of these I was doing theoretical, methodological and practitioner literature reviews and background readings to supplement the group actions. At the same time I was maintaining an individual learning journal to record my reflections on the research processes […]
Forced cuts and Congressional politics
Given the political climate in DC and the cynical, self-serving behavior of both parties which is the predictable downside of an entrenched 2 party system, the following scenario really concerns me: I dont think the Republicans in Congress want to win the Presidential election in 2012, since they know the economy isnt going to heal […]
Bypassing democracy, the Democrat way
It is typical of the elite to lose faith in the messy processes of democracy and the normal political friction of legislation. Without the intrinsic faith in the people (and the wisdom of crowds) its too easy for them to look for shortcuts. For example, here is Peter Orszag, fresh from the Obama administration recommending […]
Why trade?
I have to trade because of the intellectual and emotional challenge and the satisfaction I get from trading well. I love to trade because I find it interesting, and it challenges me every day to discover who I am and what I can do. I like to trade because it combines my passions for action, research, intellectual challenge and adaptation. Trading […]
Robert Higgs on the connection between the private economy and property rights
Jim Rogers echoes these sentiments when he describes his preference for investing in regions with more political stability Here is Higgs on regime uncertainty As I understand regime uncertainty, it has to do with widespread inability to form confident expectations about future private property rights in all of their dimensions. Private property rights specify the property owner’s […]
Political correctness come full circle
There should be a lot of political correctness tap-dancing on this one. Choose your side and start shaking. Whose race card will trump the other? in the battle between the Native Americans, descendents of slaves held by the Cherokee, self-determination, and the Bureau of Indian Affairs http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44516027/ns/us_news-life/#.TnCthk_VRSc Related articles Cherokee Nation (coffeenchat.wordpress.com) Why ‘Political Correctness’ […]