Reed Harrison

I often wonder if legalizing all drugs would benefit society.  Why? 1.)  Some control (like with alcohol and gambling) is lot, lot better than no control.   No control of drugs is today’s status quo, despite decades of law enforcement priority and efforts.  Is there more underage drinking with alcohol being legal?  Is there still more […]

I’ve been wearing Jack Purcell’s for about a decade now.  After a hiatus of, oh, about 50 years.  In my early teens, they were what I wore when I lived on a tennis court about 6 hours a day.  Even with double Wigwam socks, my ankles were stiff and sore in morning as I hobbled

My Hypothesis.  Biased news (both left and right) radicalizes our fellow Americans.  In my own (admittedly limited) research, I find otherwise reasonable, intelligent, good-hearted people believe some crazy crap and/or support extreme positions because they “live” on a continuous diet of highly partisan Fox News, or MSNBC, or whatever.  Fewer radicalized Americans would be a

Imagine how nice life would be if you got 1 sincere, even minor compliment every day.  From an article in Time, 05/27/24.  Credible research by credible experts says “ … people feel ‘significantly better’ after both giving and receiving a compliment …” I guess I’m a Pollyanna but it’s hard to imagine each and every

This is a long one.  I want to capture the emotions of that day and the months that followed.  Emotions so strong that I still tear up when I think about them almost 25 years later.  I want to capture the heroics and sacrifices of thousands of AT&T people.  I am limited to what I

An article in HBR The Working Future got me thinking.  The premise is that successful institutions gain competitive advantage by adopting leadership strategies that 1.) recognize that individual people have different motivators and values, and 2.) customizing leadership, work assignments, development, and incentives to individuals.  Presumably, competitive advantage is gained by attracting and retaining a

  I’ve often wondered if the free flow of information, discourse, and opinion might be the “silver bullet” for incenting people in autocracies to demand a better life in a free-market democracy.   A Time magazine, Feb13/20, 2023 article … “Shadow Network – Inside the clandestine effort to smuggle a free internet into Iran, one

There is considerable tension in the workplace today about working in the office vs. remotely.  The objections to remote work center on its (possibly) negative impact on productivity and on collaboration.  I find the productivity objection unpersuasive.  With quantitative goals and metrics, productivity can be measured and managed.  The hard (but by no means impossible)

I think the good people of Georgia’s 14th congressional district should be ashamed.  In 2022, 170,000 of them elected Marjorie Taylor Greene to represent them.  I’d be ashamed if the person in Congress representing me acted like her.  She is a clown and rude.  She promulgates crazy conspiracy theories.  She either believes this stuff (not

If you are trying to understand the Metaverse, it’s an evolving concept, one that is not well defined, and one that I don’t fully grasp.  For example, I don’t get the “so what” of VR, AR, and avatars.  But then, I’m not a gamer; a lot of tech sees its invention and 1st adoption in