Category: Ideas
Selling Out
Writing Well
“When I am writing well, it’s as if nothing is going on at the intellectual level. It is all happening at the emotional level.” George Saunders, from A Swim in a Pond in the Rain... Read More
Traffic Circles Part Two
Last week I wrote a blog entry about traffic circles and my discovery of why I dislike them. Alert reader Andy B. Directed me to a podcast on this very subject on FreakonomicsRadio. It was packed with... Read More
Traffic Circles
Bend, Oregon might be the traffic circle capital of the United States. We are in Bend so I’ve been driving through dozens every day and thinking why I don’t like them. I have never been a big prop... Read More
Email Zero
Sometimes an impossible sounding idea becomes a wonderful reality. eMail Zero is such an idea. The idea is to get your eMail inbox down to zero every day. How is this possible? There is a limited rang... Read More
Group Think
“If you only read books that everyone else reads you will only think what everyone else thinks.” Fran Lebowitz... Read More
Working Lizards
If I could breed lizards to do economically useful work and rewarded them for it would there be an ethics issue? We eat chickens and cows. Horses do work and the French eat them. Elephants work in Sou... Read More
A Wise Person
“In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds.” Martin Luther King Jr The rest of the quote reads: “Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for fre... Read More