Writing

People who want to fight the climate crisis tend to agree on a lot of things, but nuclear power turns out to be a highly divisive issue. In this series of posts I will use nuclear power to refer to [...]  Read more

I just nominated five candidates for the next election of the Harvard Board of Overseers as part of an effort organized by Harvard Forward . The school has made the process comically complicated by requiring that each nomination be submitted in [...]  Read more

So far I have been writing about the climate crisis primarily as a threat, an extinction level threat for the human species. But the climate crisis is also humanity’s biggest opportunity. It is our opportunity to leave the Industrial Age [...]  Read more

A few weeks ago I started having a strange sensation in my right thigh. When I moved my leg, it felt as if something was slithering between my skin and my muscle in the marked area (these are not my [...]  Read more

I have written Thanksgiving posts in past years thanking entrepreneurs , teachers and my parents . Today I want to thank my immediate family: Susan , Michael , Katie and Peter . You are each amazing in your own way [...]  Read more

These days I often feel as if I am living in a horror movie of the twilight zone variety. People appear to be under some kind of mind control, that seems to be emanating from the handheld devices they all [...]  Read more

We had eight glorious years with Dori, our beloved Goldendoodle. Just seeing her in the street put a smile on people’s face. She was alway up for a pet from random strangers and could be trusted with the youngest of [...]  Read more

It is a common idea that we should learn from our mistakes. In practice though I see many people making the same mistakes repeatedly. I myself have found that it often takes me making the same mistake at least twice [...]  Read more