Writing

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

The discussion around taxing wealth, and in particular billionaires, has been illuminating. Not in the sense of learning something new but rather seeing who is willing to make or defend bad takes instead of engaging in any level of critical [...]  Read more

Twitter Banning Political Ads: Woke but Wrong Twitter is banning political ads . This is Jack sticking it to Mark while the latter is on the ropes in a one-two punch including a jab against Libra . This mast feel [...]  Read more

A question I get quite frequently is “What makes a good leader?” One of the most important aspects of a good leader is that they have values. This may at first sound noncontroversial, but we are surrounded today by leaders who [...]  Read more

A while back I recorded an interview with Jason Jacobs for his podcast series My Climate Journey . Jason did a great job pushing me on a number of different issues which helped clarify my thinkings (thanks, Jason). Today Jason [...]  Read more

Yesterday Google’s paper announcing a first instance of “quantum supremacy” was published in Nature . Not surprisingly for those who have followed the topic there is now a healthy debate around what that actually means. Google was celebrating in a big [...]  Read more

This morning I will be on a panel at Columbia University about Universal Basic Income (UBI) and the climate crisis as part of a conference on the Green New Deal . In my view UBI should be a central component [...]  Read more