Don’t normally post about international or domestic politics, but over the last week or so I found striking similarities between the political pressures in China and in the United States. My comments are not designed to be partisan (those thoughts … Continue reading
Category Archives: I’ve Been Thinking
I don’t blog about myself, as readers of this post well know. However I am breaking my own rule to announce that my first book, a collection of five decades of poetry, has been published. It is entitled “Messing Around … Continue reading
Why does most of my spam received on my blog come to me in Russian or Chinese? If sharks can bite a man standing on a sand bar, as happened in Truro on Cape Cod, why did they keep … Continue reading
I have posted before about how dumb it is to care about the ratio of a CEO’s pay to the median pay of all public company employees. Even dumb ideas also generate unintended consequences, and now it is open season … Continue reading
This is not a political post. It is about perceptions and nomenclature and is not designed to be provocative (sorry for the disclaimer but this is necessary so that we can focus on ideas and not polemics). Nor is the … Continue reading
FIRST runs robotics competitions for High School students. The competition ends with a national championship round in Detroit. But yesterday, the Greater Boston Regionals were held at Revere High School, outside of Boston. It was an education. There were about … Continue reading
Digital data, its analysis and its use, is revolutionizing businesses of all types. According to an expert panel convened today by the New England Chapter of National Association of Corporate Directors, either you digitize or die. What is it? It … Continue reading
The Boston Business Journal recently reported remarks by Alasdair Roberts, Director of the School of Public Policy at UMass Amherst, that a sense of fragility is inherently part of humankind’s experience. It is interesting that it should be reported in … Continue reading
Press reports advise us that the Red Sox are seeking to rename Yawkey Way, the street leading into the main entrance of Fenway Park, because of Tom Yawkey’s record of racial prejudice during his four-plus decades of team ownership. (There … Continue reading
Did the Red Sox schedule a super-early opening day game in Boston because they believe that Global warming has already arrived? Now that the iconic Sunday Times crossword puzzle is full of questions from television, modern pop music and rap, … Continue reading