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Gerrymandering in North Carolina
I was studying Demosthenes’s treatises on Rhetoric in college and I noticed an interesting insight. I had expected him to expound upon delivery, but he also emphasized preparation. It was not only important to have good arguments and the right presentation, you also had to make sure that the audience was prepared to receive your Read.
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Metrics Are Not Real, They Are Just Platonic Forms
Metrics are not the real things that we are doing in our businesses, they exist to help us do the real things better. Metrics must not be confused with goals. Once metrics become goals then we start to game the system of our own devising. Metrics should be simple, so that they reveal reality easily. Read.
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Dunkirk: Can the English Get Home
The Enemy has the English and French armies surrounded at Dunkirk. We never see the faces of the Enemy. The score of Dunkirk is incessant and driving. The film is a masterpiece. I was skeptical that this military disaster could be rendered as something heroic. Christopher Nolan has captured a change in the zeitgeist. This Read.
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Covert Operations
B.H. Liddell Hart is sometimes credited as the founder of Third Generation, “maneuver” warfare. He wrote Strategy: An Indirect Approach after witnessing first-hand the horrible casualties of direct assaults during his time as an English soldier in the First World War. “In Strategy the longest way around is often the shortest way there. A direct approach Read.
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Your Great-Grandfather’s Hustle is the Hip New Thing
Molly McHugh recently wrote in The Ringer about new communal living arrangements in Oakland and New York City. I recommend her whole essay. The Nook is a microhousing apartment complex with communal spaces that residents share… This building -mild, modern, and far from ostentatious- could very well be the future of middle class housing in Read.
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The King is Dead, Long Live the King
Gentlemen’s Quarterly UK translated some interesting excerpts from newly elected French President Emmanuel Macron’s book Macron Par Marcon (Macron by Macron) “Democracy is always presented as if it were incomplete, because democracy is not enough by itself,” says Macron, elaborating that there is always something missing in the democratic process; some sort of void. “In Read.
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Emmanuel Macron and the barren elite of a changing continent
My Op-ed in the Washington Examiner Emmanuel Macron founded a new party, and his election as France’s president is said to herald the “revival of Europe.” Interestingly, Macron has no children. This is not that notable in itself. After all, George Washington had no biological children. But across the continent Macron wants to bind closer Read.
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Pandora’s Box: the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
The first Artificial Intelligence ever created was Pandora, a creation of the Greek gods Hephaestus and Athena. Pandora means both “all-gifted” and “all-giving” and was constructed with attributes from every other Olympian god. Pandora was created at the request of Zeus, the king of the gods, as a punishment for Prometheus stealing fire, the first Read.
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The Hera Principle
When Ross Mayfield’s article, The Coming Tech Backlash appeared in my LinkedIn feed I was intrigued because I have been thinking a lot about the role of technology in work after several years of working in education technology. Who gets the surplus value of automation? Who gets the leisure time created? I have been re-reading philosopher Josef Pieper’s book, Leisure: Read.
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Vladimir Putin and the Devastation of the Baby-Boomers Redux
With Russia and Putin hovering over our election, I thought back to Mr. Putin’s New York Times Op-Ed in 2013 regarding Syria. Mr. Putin opened his op-ed to the U.S. and its political leaders seeking to avoid devastation. Relations between us have passed through different stages. We stood against each other during the cold war. But Read.
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