Comments (0) The Downtown Springfield Association (DTA) held a “listening session” Saturday morning, at the Downtown Church. DSA Executive Director Crystal Quade and a team from PeopleCentric (Philip & Don) spoke with about 20 people. These are my random notes.
Read more » Comments Off on Setting up our Little Free Library Here’s our story of setting up a Little Free Library (LFL) at our home in Springfield, Missouri. — DRAFT —
Read more » Comments Off on Today’s Reading Distractions (mid-2025) These are my BlueSky posts for the past 3 months for “today’s reading distraction”
Comments Off on Thinking, Fast and Slow 
Wow. I just realized that I’ve been reading one book for more than a year, and I’m still not even half-done.
The book is Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking, Fast and Slow. Of course, I’ve read dozens of other books during this time.
Don’t get me wrong — it’s a really good, really interesting book — but it constantly forces me to think, and sends my brain into a tailspin of distraction. Read more »
Comments Off on Game-Changer and Liars & Outliers     |
I ordered about 20 books from Amazon last month; two are unexpectedly similar: David McAdams’ Game-Changer: Game Theory and the Art of Transforming Strategic Situations (2014), and Bruce Schneier’s Liars & Outliers: Enabling the Trust that Society Needs to Thrive (2012).
Both discuss “Game Theory” at some length, and both do it in a way that I found engaging and understandable. Alas, Game-Changer ultimately disappointed me, as the author shared some very flawed example suggestions in the latter half of the book. I haven’t yet finished Liars & Outliers, as I became distracted by some other business books.
Comments Off on The Filter Bubble I wanted to attend an event today, where Stephen Dunn will speak and read poetry. It’s in Sacramento, nearly a two-hour drive each way, and I decided not to go.
But all weekend, I’ve been thinking about poetry and how I came to love poetry. And so I’ll write about it. Read more »
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