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Bits and Bobs
Musk, Terkel, Oppenheimer, rubber bands, stale chewing gum, nickels and dimes, and whatever else I pull from the grab bag.
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Profanity, Past and Present
The evolution of language is all the trickier when words are obscene
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Dan Gardner
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August 2023
"Stewards of an Intergenerational Project"
Old place names have their own histories, whatever their origin
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Art, History, and Race
Criticisms of "Oppenheimer" demonstrate the folly of dogmatic head-counting
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Why Support Ukraine?
Let's change "Ukraine" to "Britain" and go back in time
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Zuck or Musk?
There are far more fundamental questions we're not asking
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July 2023
Get The Basics Right
Skip the esoteric stuff. Good decisions come from good fundamentals.
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Why All Organizations Need History
Military leaders know the answer; few civilian executives do
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June 2023
Gone fishing
It's not a vacation. But it might as well be.
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Bits and Bobs
A little of this, some of that...
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Is The AI Backlash The Same Old Story?
A close look at Marc Andreessen's claim
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Lucky Delusions
We're bad at seeing randomness. And that has consequences.
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