Speaking is like foreplay: too short and it leaves you unsatisfied; too long, and it leaves you unfulfilled. Original writing date: May 27, 2009 What footprints do we create as we go through our lives? And how do we judge those footprints once we’re gone. Original writing date: May 27, 2009

I came across this article written by Professor Richard H. Thaler, Professor of Economics at the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago. It is a rational, non-polarizing analysis of the current debate, suggesting, that at the end of the day, the debate is misfocused and that there is an actual way to [...]

Entrepreneurship: The relentless pursuit of opportunity without regard to resources currently controlled. Original writing date: April 23, 2009

Janet and I were commenting the other day, that as bad as it has been suffering through this particular downturn, probably the most disappointing of all has been what the downturn does to human beings when economics are involved. I think it’s a fair statement to say that everyone is affected. I don’t know one [...]

I experienced an interesting situation today and, to some extent, a sign of the times with respect to layoffs. I had an interaction with a company that had been a very solid company in every respect. On the other hand, it lost 50% of its staff since the time I first began working with it. [...]

Kathleen Parker is talking about an article which was written by John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods Market and published as an op-ed piece in The Wall Street Journal. She is pointing out the enormous irony of having supporters of President Obama’s health care compendium at odds with Mr. Mackey’s common sense self-deterministic approach to [...]

The forms of political structure and types of economic orders play second fiddle to the fundamental tenets of human dignity. We tend to argue in favor of democracy because we know it, as a political order, to probably be the closest we have ever seen to the fundamental tenet of freedom and free choice, an [...]

What an era! I recently came across two articles in The New York Times I thought I’d share in light of the inauguration of our first black president. The first related to Ursula M. Burns who is taking over as CEO of Xerox upon Anne Mulcahy’s retirement. Unique is that this is the first time [...]

Take a look at this article taken from the Orlando Sentinel on President Obama’s Earth Day talk in Newton, Iowa. The venue was once a giant Maytag appliance factory which now houses a wind energy company. It represented, for me, not so much the ecological theme President Obama was touting but the ebb and flow [...]

Multi-cellular structures appeared approximately 700 million years ago. There were 2.3 billion years of single cell organisms. Original writing date: June 18, 2008 Out of curiosity, what is the difference, at the end of the day, between the trading of a derivative and a Ponzi Scheme? Original writing date: March 6, 2009