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Life & Living:  Guns.  Why risk it?  The numbers say you’re more likely to kill yourself.
On the news I saw that the Crumbley’s, husband and wife and parents of the school shooter who killed 4 classmates, were sentenced to 10-15 years in prison for manslaughter.  At the sentencing, they apologized. What struck me was how people associated with gun violence never...
Politics Industry
Current Events:  How Maryland Independents Can Vote in the Primary -- Hacking Maryland’s Out-of-Date Election System.
I highly recommend The Politics Industry: How Political Innovation Can Break Partisan Gridlock and Save Our Democracy by Katherine Gehl and Michael Porter. Reading their work and my other research made me an advocate for Open Primaries and Ranked Choice Voting. I’m a lifelong...
Middle Class
Current Events:  Sounding the Alarm – AI Will Further Depress More of the Middle Class and We’re Not Going to Stop It.  (Not an April Fools’ Day joke.)
We really, really need to think about how we are going to deal with big increases in the ranks of the under- and unemployed … and the resulting even larger disenfranchised middle class.   Americans are great at reacting to a crisis.  We need to get good at avoiding...
Davos
Business Strategy – Bain’s Take on Davos 2024 (aka the World Economic Forum):  Saving you a trip to Switzerland. 
“2024 is set to be a pivotal moment. The shape of things to come is being radically disrupted and redefined. As our discussions in Davos emphasized, driving this wave of change are four factors: … rapid evolution of artificial intelligence, … … the urgent imperatives of...