I generally avoid politics; people have their own views and do not need mine. I try to stick to things I know a little about: law and occasionally the Boston Red Sox. (I do better on predicting the former.) But … Continue reading
Category Archives: Anomalies of Life
80% of mobile “wearable” medical devices today are focused on the treatment of chronic disease; some are good, some “garbage,” and in any event more than half of them will disappear in three years. This was the view expressed by … Continue reading
Lunching at my desk today, and needing a break from thinking, I was flipping through Fortune Magazine (March 15 issue) and came across a list of the 100 best places to work in the US. Putting aside both the source … Continue reading
Out for my usual luncheon stroll around town in today’s picture perfect weather, I was attracted to a noisy gathering, surrounded by flashing blue police lights, at the intersection of State and Congress Streets, in the heart of Boston’s downtown … Continue reading
Most of us invest. We read the business news, we read the national and international political news, we rely on research and analysts and our personal observation of trends, products and the like. It seems we are missing important data, … Continue reading
The app “A Word A Day” noted recently that Stellenbosch as a verb means to be demoted to a useless job without loss of rank. Comes from the town of the same name in South Africa, which today is wonderful, … Continue reading
ONE: It is 1959 and I am newly settled into the dormitory at Columbia College in New York City. I am sixteen and very excited. I go downstairs, cross Broadway to the smoke shop and ask for a pack of … Continue reading
Recently I was asked for my take-aways from the Occupy Boston movement, about which I have blogged several times; the Occupy site was just below my office window and I spent some lunchtimes talking with the tent people and taking … Continue reading
Reagan made famous the phrase “there you go again” and I am guilty. One day after I promised myself not to post about the now-closed Occupy Boston site, I am compelled to do it again. From my office directly above … Continue reading
I keep anecdotal track of Boston, the horizontal city. I know this is unscientific and subjective and smacks of the imprecision that I abhor on the internet and particularly with respect to bloggers, who have a free fire zone regardless of hard … Continue reading