A winning non-strategy
When I headed to the Bay Area in 1984, years of success and championships followed for the 49ers, the A's, and the Giants.
When I came to Boston in '07, the Patriots went undefeated (except for the Super Bowl), and the Red Sox and Celtics won championships. Then the Pats and the Sox continued on that path.
Now I'm in Bloomington, Indiana, witnessing the IU Hoosiers football team win the Big 10 championship and continue its undefeated season.
Coincidence? Yes, but a fun one.
Also coming to Bloomington
New Public has launched a new community organizing tool called Roundabout, plus Local Lab: a way create digital public spaces. Eli Pariser, a New Public co-founder, explains Local Lab here. He will also speak about all this stuff next month here at Indiana University as part of the salon series we put together with the Ostrom Workshop and the Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies. Mark your calendars now: Thursday, 22 January at 4pm Eastern. It will be on Zoom as well as live here.
But you're free to feel the same anywhere
They don't like Temu in Arizona.
Brilliant and right
I avoid politics here, but I can't resist pointing to this post by Daniel Barkhuff, emergency room MD, former Navy SEAL, and A-1 writer.
An additional thought is that after political conservatism recovers from MAGA fever, it will be much sharper than it was before. It may take longer for the Left. Just a guess.
We need both. We need the Right's sense of how business works, the value of thrift, and other stuff like that. We need the Left's sense of how government works and can care for people. We also need AND logic between the two. OR logic is a big fail.
Picking the UnLocke
I just updated this 2009 post, so its single link points to this post by Chris Locke in the Internet Archive. Chris had twelve years left at the time. Among his not-famous but no longer lost words:
Did we fall asleep? Just for a little while.
We only have a little while to live. Such a precious time to be here. Wherever here is. To see each other and this awesome, incredible world. So let us not talk falsely now. Let us be what we truly are, which is human, and try to get our heads and hearts around what that might conceivably mean.
And mostly, miracles of science notwithstanding, let us not take ourselves too overfuckingseriously.
I miss his ass.
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