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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...
Key Bridge 2
Current Events:  The Key Bridge Collapse, as of 6:30pm on March 26, 2024. 
Talk about a “black swan”! There has been non-stop news coverage on local Baltimore TV stations since I got up this morning.  Here’s what I’ve gleaned, so far.  Not clear how much will make it on to national news. 8 construction workers were repairing potholes...
Mead Home
Life & Living:  A Tribute to Larry Mead.
Larry Mead passed on May 24, 2022, peacefully at home surrounded by family.  His son called me when Larry was on his deathbed in NJ.  Since I was in Baltimore, I wrote a “thank-you” to Larry and emailed it to his son and asked him to read it to Larry and his family. Along...