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Comments Off on Missouri Legislation Ideas

This is a collection of possible “new and revised” legislation that I’d like for our Missouri state representatives and senators to consider (Data Center issues are near the end).

Comments Off on Downtown Springfield Listening Session

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.

Comments Off on Giving up is unforgivable: a manual for keeping a democracy (2024) by Joyce Vance

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Comments Off on The Privateers: How Billionaires Sold School Vouchers” (2024) by Josh Cowen

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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 —

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.