Global Change

The Case for Optimism: The Gates Foundation 2018 Letter

Global Change, Innovation, Leadership, Life Balance

This week the Gates Foundation released their 2018 Annual Letter. The letter has the following introduction: “A decade ago, we started a new annual tradition: sitting down to write… Continue Reading...

Epistemology and the Earth Apple

Global Change, Innovation, Leadership

As you can tell by the title of this post, I tend to ignore the common title tropes of the blogosphere. If I were in the business of attracting as… Continue Reading...

What is Artificial Intelligence?

Global Change, Innovation

The purpose of this post is to help the non-technical understand the term “Artificial Intelligence” as well as related terms like “Machine Learning” and “Deep Learning”. Since I work in… Continue Reading...

Are You Ready for Change?

Effectiveness, Global Change, Innovation, Leadership

When I was at my Military Intelligence Officer’s course in the mid-1980’s, our coursework was almost completely focused on encountering Soviet armored divisions storming into Germany’s Fulda Gap, despite the… Continue Reading...

Two Lessons from Elon Musk

Global Change, Innovation, Leadership

Elon Musk. It’s hard to read any business publication and not run across some story of the Thomas Edison/Henry Ford of our time. I read two particular stories – one… Continue Reading...

Desert Storm, Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Lentil

Global Change, Innovation, Leadership, Life Balance

As I write this I am eating a bowl of lentil soup, which reminds me of a story. Let me set the stage…. It’s winter of 1991, and I’m in… Continue Reading...

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