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Self-Fulfilling Prophecies
“Sometimes when we anticipate the worst in people, we destroy what is best.” I have a tendency to worry. I expect things to go wrong…
September 10, 2009
PopCap: Full Disclosure, Complete Transparency: Basic Minimums of Trust
(Friday’s Populist Capitalist Blog Post) Markets, businesses, and relationships all flourish when trust exists. If I have to spend all my time guarding my back,…
September 4, 2009
Taking Calorie Counts With a Grain of Salt: Don’t Believe Everything You Read
Requiring restaurants, particularly chains, to put calorie counts beside each item is the latest skirmish in the battle against American obesity. But can you believe…
September 3, 2009
Reality Please
A lot can go wrong when we measure ourselves against bogus standards, standards that cannot be met because they are not real. They are fake,…
September 1, 2009
DNA Evidence Foolproof? NOT!
One of my pet peeves is our willingness to accept information offered up as solid fact without giving it a good smell test, without subjecting…
August 31, 2009
To whom much is given, much is required
To whom much is given, much is required. Every now and then my attitude of gratitude strongly kicks in and I begin to think of…
August 27, 2009
Rational Assessments of Risk
We humans are a funny lot. We voluntarily take on significant risk when we “think” we are in control and frequently shun the mildest safety…
August 25, 2009
Finding the Line: Small Improvements, Big Cumulative Impacts
Howard Schultz is the founder and CEO of Starbucks and evidently he likes to tell this story about milk: Starbucks uses a lot of milk.…
August 20, 2009
PopCap: Unseen Choices: Defined Benefit vs. Defined Cost Health Care
(Friday’s Populist Capitalist Blog Post) Many government programs are so-called “defined benefit”: “X” level of benefits will be provided regardless of the total cost. “Defined…
August 14, 2009
Hostile Interactions and Wound Healing
Wow! This is a mouthful of a title for a blog post: Hostile Interactions and Wound Healing. It is from the title of a study…
August 13, 2009
A Soft Answer
A diligent young American studied Zen philosophy in Japan. So as to hone and discipline his body as well as his mind, he also studiously…
August 10, 2009