It was great fun writing about these topics - and thank you very much for engaging in such lovely conversations; here, on the phone and in-person!
Business & Economics
1. Schooling – Is liberal or vocational schooling better for our economy and society?
2. Manufacturing – is manufacturing important for sustainable economic growth?
3. Markets and Morals – is there room for morals and ethics in market economics?
4. Innovation – Turn of the 20th century innovation (Alexander Graham Bell et al)
5. Apogee – Mega trends that are up right under our noses that will transform everything around us
6. Connecting the dots – how this could be one’s most useful skill
7. Of Mountains and Molehills – gaining perspective on one’s business problems
8. Impact on Culture – what happens when there is an exogenous shock to a community or organization?
Arts & Literature
9. Lincoln – take on Speilberg’s movie
10. Jefferson – my visit to DC
11. Debates – What are some of the greatest debates the world has seen or heard?
12. Crab Cannon – A new favorite excerpt from ‘Godel Escher & Bach’
13. What She Wants – yeah man…. what does she want?!
14. Detective Stories – what are the top 10 detective stories of all time?
15. Yajnavalkya and the iPhone – how does one interpret a 3000 year old poem in the age of the iPhone?
16. Yeats and the Mandukya – William Butler Yeats shows how to interpret a 3000 year old poem in the jet age
17. Pandit Ravi Shankar – the godfather of world music passes away
18. Gardening – could not be anything more soul nourishing
19. Poems - Ode to Winter, On the beach, Thousand Flakes
20. Photo Essays – world travel
Science and Philosophy
21. Philosophy of science – are mathematical equations accurate representations of reality?
22. Mind or Body – would you choose mind over body or vice versa?
23. What is Life? – my rumination on Erwin Schrodinger’s seminal question that led to the discovery of the DNA
24. On Nothing – even nothing is something. Just sayin’
25. Thin Blue Line – Hubble telescope is blowing our minds!
26. Messiah – somewhere out there in an unexpected place is the next genius that will transform how we look at this world
Summary of 2011 Essays:
http://agingonthevine.blogspot.com/2011/12/summary-of-2011-blog-entries.html
Business & Economics
1. Schooling – Is liberal or vocational schooling better for our economy and society?
2. Manufacturing – is manufacturing important for sustainable economic growth?
3. Markets and Morals – is there room for morals and ethics in market economics?
4. Innovation – Turn of the 20th century innovation (Alexander Graham Bell et al)
5. Apogee – Mega trends that are up right under our noses that will transform everything around us
6. Connecting the dots – how this could be one’s most useful skill
7. Of Mountains and Molehills – gaining perspective on one’s business problems
8. Impact on Culture – what happens when there is an exogenous shock to a community or organization?
Arts & Literature
9. Lincoln – take on Speilberg’s movie
10. Jefferson – my visit to DC
11. Debates – What are some of the greatest debates the world has seen or heard?
12. Crab Cannon – A new favorite excerpt from ‘Godel Escher & Bach’
13. What She Wants – yeah man…. what does she want?!
14. Detective Stories – what are the top 10 detective stories of all time?
15. Yajnavalkya and the iPhone – how does one interpret a 3000 year old poem in the age of the iPhone?
16. Yeats and the Mandukya – William Butler Yeats shows how to interpret a 3000 year old poem in the jet age
17. Pandit Ravi Shankar – the godfather of world music passes away
18. Gardening – could not be anything more soul nourishing
19. Poems - Ode to Winter, On the beach, Thousand Flakes
20. Photo Essays – world travel
Science and Philosophy
21. Philosophy of science – are mathematical equations accurate representations of reality?
22. Mind or Body – would you choose mind over body or vice versa?
23. What is Life? – my rumination on Erwin Schrodinger’s seminal question that led to the discovery of the DNA
24. On Nothing – even nothing is something. Just sayin’
25. Thin Blue Line – Hubble telescope is blowing our minds!
26. Messiah – somewhere out there in an unexpected place is the next genius that will transform how we look at this world
Summary of 2011 Essays:
http://agingonthevine.blogspot.com/2011/12/summary-of-2011-blog-entries.html
4 comments:
I am quite impressed. All I can claim is writing out the grocery list on Saturday morning…
Happy New year!
I’ve really enjoyed reading these, and find the topics and writing style very engaging and informative!
Can’t wait for you to pull them together for a book to sell!
Please stay in touch with your insightful musings. I wish I had more bandwidth to study and respond more often - but instead I will content myself to watch your unfolding with awe and muse along.
Wishing your family a happy holiday and wonderful new year.
Maybe it will suffice to read this one post and skip the full year, like I
did?! :-)
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