I’ve been rummaging through old notebooks lately to see what I should throw out. Not having a lot of luck. But I did find some quotes about “the future” worth pondering. Ponder away! Søren Kierkegaard: “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” Life is pretty cool for us in the…
Time on a treadmill is boring, so I try to find interesting stuff to watch. I was watching the lecture series World War II: Battlefield Europe, presented by David Stone who teaches at the U.S. Naval War College. This series looks at WW II from a European perspective, but I was surprised that the series…
I was on the treadmill this morning pondering macroeconomics and whether cryptocurrency is part of the M1 or M2 money supply. (Darn impressive, huh?) And, as I considered my confusion about cryptocurrencies, I sensed something familiar from my youth. What was it? And then it hit me – cryptocurrencies are like baseball cards! Baseball cards…
Past + Present >>> Future As we prepare to launch our new course, Intercepting the Future, we’ve been digging into some of the tools and techniques that are needed for the foundational skills of learning from the past and responding to the present. And, in doing so, we keep running into a very uncomfortable reality – in…
MindPrep 173 – We are so screwed! This is a copy of our latest newsletter. I wanted to “share it with the world” because it highlights a BIG problem that my generation keeps ignoring — I hope the young “up and comers” can fix what we’ve messed up. Please. The following article makes me wonder…
The last issue of MindPrep described leaders as those who live by the motto of “Learn from the past, deal with today, and prepare for the future.” They know that surprises are inevitable, but they don’t want to be taken by surprise. It’s late 2022 as I write this, and many companies are hoping…
Polio Virus – New York City – 2022 I read a little blurb today about the discovery of polio virus in the wastewater in New York City. This reminded me of a post I wrote in the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic. Here’s the front end of that post. We’ve been down this road…
Here is this week’s mini-history for you education and entertainement. I hope you find it useful. A crash The Transcontinental and Western Air flight was a Fokker F.10 Trimotor enroute from Kansas City to Los Angeles on March 31, 1931. On the first leg of the flight to Wichita, the airplane crashed and all eight on board died,…
I was re-reading Barbara Tuchman’s 1981 book Practicing History and came across an article she wrote for Foreign Affairs, in 1936. It was entitled “Japan: A Clinical Note.” It smacks of today’s news. Historical context Japan invaded Manchuria on September 19, 1931. They established a puppet state, called Manchukuo, and occupied it until the end…
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