Writing

I have been getting a large number of requests for help with internships. Many students either never got one for this summer or had theirs canceled. My advice to them is: create your own. Figure out what it is you [...]  Read more

Towards the end of 2019, which feels a decade ago, I wrote a post on growth . It was an attempt to get away from the blanket term “growth” and its counterpart “degrowth,” which have become stand-ins for entire philosophies [...]  Read more

One key lesson from COVID19 is that we need a lot more decentralization. This is especially true when the center is as inept at managing the crisis as the US federal government has proven to be. For example, the power [...]  Read more

Since I wrote my post on “The Road Back from COVID19 ″ we have made lots of progress on two out of the three pillars: masks and tracing. Masks went from a discussion of their merits to being mandatory to wear [...]  Read more

2020 marks the 50th anniversary of Earth Day , an annual event supporting environmental protection and increasingly dedicated to fighting the climate crisis . Much had been planned, but due to COVID19 those plans had to be scrapped. Instead there [...]  Read more

The lockdown measures put in place have started to flatten the curve, but they are hugely disruptive and even if we were better about freezing the economy than we are, we cannot possibly maintain them until we have a vaccine [...]  Read more

Something that consistently surprises me is how many people have a fundamentally static worldview. Their motto appears to be: Things are as they are and nothing will change. Never mind that history is full of massive change. And even more [...]  Read more

There has been a lot of discussion of whether or not startups qualify for forgivable loans under the Paycheck Protection Program administered by the SBA (part of the CARES Act). I don’t want to rehash the arcana of affiliation rules [...]  Read more