Buy American

Posted on February 20, 2023February 20, 2023 by Simon

“Buy American” as a national policy is a really bad idea. It was a bad idea when President Trump used it to start trade wars and it was a bad idea when President Biden wrote it into his in... Read More

Sharing is Caring?

Posted on February 16, 2023February 12, 2023 by Simon

“When something is shared by everyone, it usually gets ruined by the worst-behaved of us.” This is the “fallacy of the commons” written differently. It is why socialism and communism a... Read More

Gifts

Posted on February 8, 2023February 7, 2023 by Simon

A gift with conditions is not a gift. It is a purchase. The Inukshuk in this photo was built of river smoothed stones in the Merced River near Wawona in Yosemite. No glue is used in the construction o... Read More

Tanks for Peace?

Posted on February 2, 2023January 31, 2023 by Simon

Paradoxically and uncomfortably I find myself favoring tanks for peace. The photo is my most recent Inukshuk. I found the the river smoothed torso stone on the approach trail to Piestewa Peak. It is a... Read More

Math

Posted on January 23, 2023January 11, 2023 by Simon

Which do you think costs more per pound a commercial airplane or a smart phone. Take a guess before you scroll down. To figure this out roughly you have to know how much each of them weighs and how mu... Read More

Blogging in the Age of TikTok

Posted on January 16, 2023January 10, 2023 by Simon

Eating the moon on Piestewa Peak. Photo credit Mark V. My blog is nearing twenty years old with more than 4000 posts. I really not keeping track. It has evolved a lot over the years and the environmen... Read More

Links

Posted on December 5, 2022November 13, 2022 by Simon

Knowledge is power, Power is money, Money is good. Jacque Nessi... Read More

Team

Posted on December 2, 2022November 13, 2022 by Simon

“Have a teamwork attitude about everything.” Thank you to Oscar Guerrero for this one and for the engraved bowl with some of the quotes he attributed to me and found memorable. Ten words o... Read More

Maxim Challenge

Posted on November 12, 2022November 12, 2022 by Simon

“Helping others is the best way to ensure your survival.“ Every day until the end of the year I am going to post a favorite maxim. My constraint is that the maxim will have ten words or le... Read More

“The Apple of My Eye”

Posted on November 3, 2022October 31, 2022 by Simon

“The Apple of My Eye” was originally used in English and perhaps Hebrew to refer to the pupil of the eye. Sometime in the late middle ages it began to mean something or someone that one va... Read More

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