One of my favorite books is How Doctors Think, Jerome Groopman, M.D., 2007. Dr. Groopman is a good writer and an engaging storyteller. More than that, he pulls advice from the stories so that we can become thoughtful patients and apply his observations to our world. The story One of the chapters is the story of…
This continues the questions and comments that came from MindPrep 196 – You Tell Me. Ken wanted more re: “thinking blocks” and four versions of the future. Here are the thinking blocks. I’ll send the “four futures” in a few days. Thinking Blocks: we all have them! Marcel Straub on Unsplash “This book is concerned…
When the pandemic started “in earnest” in 2020 I responded to a blogpost from my friend Erica Nelson and wrote a month-long series of posts about books on my shelf and ideas I gained from them. You see, I like “real” books and I often write notes in the margin. I was keeping busy (all…
Inflation is out of control! Who should we blame? When something goes wrong, we want to find someone to blame. It seems to be human nature and it’s turned into an art form for our Congress. It’s easier than figuring out why something went wrong. And sometimes the answer is so complicated that we find…
“An act of writing is an act of thinking.” William Zinsser, Writing to Learn I’m a writer (in addition to a bunch of other things) and I was taken aback by a recent article in Atlantic Magazine, “The End of High School English.” The article, written by an English teacher, provides commentary about OpenAI’s ChatGPT, a “program…
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