Perspectives
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
This week’s House S&T Committee EPIC hearing.
Wednesday afternoon I had occasion to participate in an iconic 21st-century American pastime – decamping from the office in order...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Living in the (Rabbit)-Hole-ocene
Go down the rabbit hole: To enter into a process or journey that is particularly strange, difficult, problematic, complex, or...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Value and Worth.
The real world’s value doesn’t decrease based on our inability to see its worth. (paraphrase of an inspirational quote) Most...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Stay in the fight.
(a bit bleary-eyed this morning – getting up at 4:50 a.m. after staying up until 12:15 a.m. watching the Nationals...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
The Spirit of Elijah
“Mr. President, you’re now 70-something, I’m 60-something. Very soon you and I will be dancing with the angels. The thing...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Takeaways from yesterday’s Global Climate Strike
“There go my people. I must follow them, for I am their leader[1]” – Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin Populism – a political approach...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
An aspirational goal for the next administration: crafting a superbloom in the predictability desert?
(Yesterday’s LOTRW post introduced the subject of transition documents. Today’s post continues that train of thought.) Yes, a superbloom is...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Tis the season… for developing transition documents.
We all know that Washington DC is the nation’s capital. Unsurprisingly, it’s also the capital city for non-governmental organizations (NGO’s),...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Critical thinking versus criticism thinking
Critical thinking: the objective analysis and evaluation of an issue in order to form a judgment. Google the expression critical...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
AMS at 100: core values for tomorrow.
“Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.” – Robert Frost...
