I think, therefore I am' - René Descartes 1596 - 1650
(Click the title to see a follow-up comment to this post) “Thomas Piketty’s book Capital in the Twenty-First Century caused a stir this summer. It’s a major contribution to the study of inequality—but it has some...
A Story Recently, I’ve been reading Persun’s Cathedral of Dreams. Residents bask in blissful, meaningless monotony. Outsiders strive thru hard, desperate, emotional days. Some want out from within. Others want in from without. There is a...
In Hacker News this week I found two articles, right next to each other, that shared a theme. I’ll call this theme “I’m not as smart as I seem” or maybe “A crisis in confidence and I...
This afternoon, K, Fran, & I drove to Western Washington University in Bellingham, WA to listen to Nick Wees play his junior trumpet recital. It was a beautiful day, about 75F and sunny. After dropping...
I work for the Northwest Institute of Literary Arts. An organization that promotes the value of quality writing in many forms and genres. There was an interesting discussion in this weeks staff meeting about online bookstores, ...
Because we can think and verbalize a specific idea, and map it to a set of values, does not make that idea fit for application in any broader sense. The idea must contribute or at least...