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Just Finished Reading
The Zurich Axioms, Max Gunther 1972, 164 pgs.
The Art of Building Cities, Camillo Sitte 1889,127 pgs.
Undaunted, John O. Brennan 2020, 431 pgs.
The Storm Before The Storm, Mike Duncan 2017, 305 pgs.
What Iâm Reading (finished)
Narrative Economics - Robert J. Shiller (Nobel Prize), 2019, 360 pages
What Is Narrative Therapy? - Alice Morgan, 2000, 130 pages
Memo To A College Trustee - Beardsley Ruml & Donald H. Morrison, 1959, 94 pages
Nudge - Richard H. Thaler (Nobel Prize) & Cass R. Sunstein, 2008, 271 pages
A More Beautiful Question - Warren Berger, 2014, 216 pages
Einsteinâs Unfinished Revolution - Lee Smolin (Hampshire grad), 2019, 279 pages
Modern Money Theory 2nd ed - L. Randall Wray, 2015. 292 pages
The Rules of Contagion - Adam Kucharski, 2020, 266 pages
Good Economics for Hard Times - Abhiji V. Banerjee & Ester Duflo (Nobel Prize), 2018, 326 pages

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Asked A Question
As students get ready to decide whether or not to go off to college I remembered this essay I wrote a while ago. ..........
I frequently ask prospective students what area of study theyâre interested in. There are all kinds of responses back as you might imagine, but sometimes there seems to be more anguish than necessary, more uncertainty, more worry or a nervous blank look and no answer at all. Hereâs a small hypothetical "welcome speech" to first-year students to help them think about how to stake out personal and intellectual turf. It posses that there is an important question that they will eventually confront.
Some time from now you will be asked a question. It may be eight years or fourteen months or two decades, but it will come. It will be the most important question you will ever answer. You may have studied it in school or you may never have thought about it at all. Either way you'll think, why are they asking me, but they are and you'll need to answer, because there'll be no one else.
Your response will save the life of your friend, your lover, your next door neighbor, the person at work you hate. Your answer will save the company you work for, the neighborhood you live in, your daughters school, the little park just down the street, New England.
The person who asks you the question will be your younger sister, the guy in the elevator, your best friend, the CEO of the company you work for, the woman in the car across the street, the governor of Massachusetts. They'll be depressed, crying, fearful, in pain, desperate, stoic, angry, or simply have a blank look on their face. You won't have time to look it up, ask someone else, talk it over, think it through or read about it on-line. Everything will stop. People will turn to hear your answer. Faces will lift. It will get a little quiet. Suddenly it will be now.
The question you will be asked is, "what should we do?" Your answer will change the course of your life and the lives of others for better or for worse. Will you be able to give that answer?
Is this actually going to happen? Maybe. But here's the "really scary" version â perhaps more likely is that no one will ask at all. People will just stand there frozen, uncertain, bewildered, baffled, trapped in the middle of a horrible, desperate situation and simply wait for something to happen. That's when you need to lead. Unasked, you have to step forward and say what you think we should do. Answering the unasked desperate question is the hardest thing in the world to do and the most important, but to be able to do it you have to prepare â starting now.
So that's why we're really here, to get you to a point later in life (maybe only weeks from now), where you could answer that question or even more importantly the unasked desperate question. If you want to change the world you need to get ready. You may not think you're up to it, but everyone here is. However, if you're just here to have a good time, later you're not going to be much help to anyone because you won't be able to answer the question â you didn't prepare, you didnât learn enough, you didnât grow, you didnât gain enough confidence. You'll have small ideas and that great desperate question will just hang there â unanswered.
So what is it that youâll have to learn to be able to answer that question? What is it that youâll have to develop in yourself to be able to stand up and respond? Who will you have to become to be able to do all of it? Thereâs your curriculum. There are your learning goals. Find the questions that you want to be responsible for in the future. Donât pick something trivial, choose to be responsible for ideas and actions that are truly important. Notice itâs not only knowing what the answer is, itâs also being able to convey that information to others in a persuasive way and do that right now.
Yes you could always just follow the crowd. Let them decide. But the crowd is frequently wrong due to lack of understanding or more pessimistically theyâre led by hidden actors who donât have our best interests in mind.
But wait, thereâs one more thing. Not only do you have to be able to answer the question, you also have to be there, donât you. Step forward. Get on the front line. Always be at the head of the crowd. Not only is it a better view, but youâll understand more and have more influence. One day in the future, right there, right then, it could, you know, all come down to just you.

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Youâre Knocking on the Wrong Door
In this our new world itâs easy to become confused about whatâs happening and forget what an effective response should be to a primary problem. Unfortunately weâve lost track of what the primary problem is. Weâre currently worried about enough hospital beds, ventilators, medical support items, and trained staff. Thatâs all medical and a distraction from the real problem. We should be worried about public health instead. The real goal is to stop the contagion. Unfortunately at this time there is no vaccine, nor treatment so the only tools at our disposal are âtestingâ and âkeeping distanceâ â public health tools. âTestingâ is for government and âkeeping distanceâ is for individuals. Even more unfortunate our current government leaders are unschooled in how to effectively operate a governing system and are poor at leadership as well. Oh, and they donât believe in science either. A remarkably bad combination.
The real problem is the spread of the virus, not surviving it. Surviving is important, but itâs not the primary problem. Itâs a result. If you prevent the spread you mitigate a lot of the survival problems. However, if you spend time and energy on the survival portion youâve done nothing about the spread and it only gets worse. Much worse. And it can get worse fast.
As innocent citizen bystanders all we can do is âwear the maskâ, keep 6 to 10 feet apart and âstay at homeâ with only immediate family. What our government officials ought to be doing is testing all of us to find those who are carrying the virus and isolate them to âstop the spreadâ. Then we all wait until scientist develop a vaccine, it gets distributed and we start the long process of returning to a new normal.
Now that the âRe-Openingâ has gone so wrong weâve lost most of the benefit of the sacrifices of the lock-down and weâll have to start over again. Weâll have to isolate ourselves again until the spread rate drops down to a number that can be âcontact tracedâ effectively. Isolation and contract tracing will then allow us to reduce the rate of spread down to single digit numbers, not in the thousands. The only way that works is with strong testing capabilities which we currently donât have and seem incapable of developing.
Itâs always been about âtesting to stop the spreadâ. The corona virus is a social disease and it will take modifying social behavior to stop the spread. That applies to both our government managers and individual citizens.
Test, Isolate, Trace.

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Weâre In It Now: part two
The overriding situation at this time is obviously working our way through a complex and frightening domestic/civic-justice disaster. Itâs also an immersive advanced workshop in government, management, economics and philosophy unfolding in real time with real consequences. We should view this as an exercise in the fog-of-war lifestyle. But youâve heard all of this before.
The world is seldom fully explained to us. Not only are future ramifications of events and actions unclear, but our grasp of whatâs really happening is often vague and superficial. Our job is to wrestle with those imperfect perceptions and partial understanding in order to explore the mystery of not only whatâs really happening, but what should we do about it next. Many things stand in our way.
Sounds familiar, right? Not only are we here again; we never left. Itâs all one thing unfolding obscurely before us with both imaginary and real consequences. Our behaviors cause a feed-back loop affecting whatâs happening, altering or hopefully filling in our incomplete understanding.
Truncated conversations among media, local, state and federal governments, friends, family and that ingrained voice of a long forgotten civics class from grade school all urge us to do the right thing. Itâs just there are so many versions of what that is. Expectations of ourselves and others bounce back and forth acquiring differing meaning and import each day. What a disaster. What a success. How embarrassing as a nation. How proud we should be of our citizens. Rioting. Demands for real justice. Itâs all flux.
Itâs surprising how what we think we understand keeps changing and consequently alters our choice of what is an appropriate response to that ever changing imperfect understanding; all with in a short time span. And then the cycle repeats again. Stir in the history that some of us have already lived through (perspective) as a bitter flavor ingredient and the pot boils once more.
We can usually figure out how to get through today (forget the fact that we may not actually remember what day of the week it is), maybe even tomorrow, but next week and certainly the week after that seem unimaginable. How will we get from here to there safely and with hope?
As we analyze situations we should at intervals ask ourselves whoâs in charge now and what are their goals and associated metrics? What do I support and what do I oppose? Are we counting what we value or just whatâs easy to count? Are we interested in outcomes or checkboxes?
The unfolding of events is really an interaction between actors and responders. Call and response, action and reaction. Each group has itâs own motivations, methods and toolkit to draw from. Some mesh well while others devolve into oppositions and conflicts.
Sometimes problems arise because the players arenât actually playing the same game even though weâre all on the same playing field. What reads as legitimate behavior in one game is way out of bounds when played in another game. The troublesome part is that there are multiple teams in each situation so we end up with a web of intricate cross connections, motivations, rules and actions/reactions.
Not so surprisingly there are often hidden actors as well whose unseen moves confuse and deflect or focus and support the actions of others. Hidden actors have an additional advantage of being able to stop and walk away or simply pause their play for an interval either as a tactic or to step back and create think time. Hidden actors: few, economical and unnoticed may sound paranoid, but that doesnât mean that theyâre not there. Thereâs a thin space between being a player and being played.
Though we all cringe when politicians talk about âbattle-spaceâ; the fight for domestic justice has become our ânew civicsâ protest-space that encompasses not only who controls public spaces, but the public mind as well and we should again ask whoâs in charge now and what are their goals.
Show me your hands. Show me your metrics!