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You’re Probably Wrong About That

I spend a great deal of my day being wrong about things. How about you? You and I know a great many things. We know, we hope, how to do our jobs, how to get from point A to point B, how to survive from day to day. But there is a lot of our [...]

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The Foundation Of The Future: Isaac Asimov, Steve Jobs, and What’s Next

08.22.2011 Business

I hope you’ll allow me this momentary hyperbolic flight. Isaac Asimov wrote a very interesting series of novels called “The Foundation.” In them, his character, Hari Seldon, developed a science called psychohistory, with which he was able to accurately predict the large scale course of human events. It’s a great series, and was added to [...]

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Some Thoughts On Travel

06.28.2011 Family

My wife and I took our youngest daughter on a trip to the UK recently, a graduation from high school celebration. I’ll have much more to write about it in the coming weeks, but here are some initial thoughts and observations: Air travel sucks. Avoid if at all possible. Travel light and wash out things [...]

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The Play’s The Thing

03.15.2011 The life of the mind

My recent trip to see one of my plays produced brought the value of live theater right back to the forefront of my thinking. I’m a bit of a radical when it comes to theater history and philosophy. I don’t think that theater is a sophisticated development of advanced civilizations and societies. I believe that [...]

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Only Yesterday: How The Past Really Is Prologue

09.14.2010 Books and Literature

I am generally loath to recommend books to friends or acquaintances. There are few people, other than my friend Penny, to whom I can reliably say, “You’ll love this book,” and have it turn out to be true. But Penny and I have a long relationship and a shared love of books. We know each [...]

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