Humor Foolish Ideas SimonMarch 18, 20220 “Some ideas are so foolish that only an intellectual could believe them, for no ordinary man could be such a...
Ideas Lessons from History SimonFebruary 16, 20220 "That people do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of the lessons that history...
Ideas Grey Cars SimonFebruary 3, 20220 If you are not different you don't exist. If you are too different you are scary. Battleship grey is the...
Ideas Writing Well SimonNovember 13, 20210 "When I am writing well, it’s as if nothing is going on at the intellectual level. It is all happening at the...
Ideas Traffic Circles Part Two SimonAugust 17, 20210 Last week I wrote a blog entry about traffic circles and my discovery of why I dislike them. Alert reader Andy B....
Ideas Traffic Circles SimonAugust 13, 20211 Bend, Oregon might be the traffic circle capital of the United States. We are in Bend so I’ve been driving...
Ideas Email Zero SimonAugust 12, 20211 Sometimes an impossible sounding idea becomes a wonderful reality. eMail Zero is such an idea. The idea is to get...
Ideas Group Think SimonApril 21, 20210 “If you only read books that everyone else reads you will only think what everyone else thinks.” Fran...
Ideas A Door SimonApril 14, 20210 “A book isn’t supposed to be a mirror. It’s supposed to be a door!” Fran...
Ideas Working Lizards SimonFebruary 26, 20210 If I could breed lizards to do economically useful work and rewarded them for it would there be an ethics...