Those of you who have ventured into downtown Boston have described the experience as a trip into emptiness; one of my partners remarked that you could hear crickets on the streets. Many people reading this post are working entirely or … Continue reading
Category Archives: I’ve Been Thinking
As I sit at my computer writing this post, I have at my side a single-spaced 187 page document listing in very brief summary all identified US court cases relating to COVID 19 — 1,522 of them. This data grows … Continue reading
This is my first post in over four months. There is so much “writing” out there, so many alerts and zoom conferences and reports, that it seemed to me that the last thing anyone needed was another talking head. I … Continue reading
Everyone knows Boston traffic is gridlocked and public transportation does not perform. Current ambitious State plans to fund public transportation, by an $18Billion bond offering, presently are pending in the Legislature. According to an expert panel convened by the National … Continue reading
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
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