by Whitney | Jul 25, 2008 | Uncategorized
I have a close friend who lives and works in Beijing. He wrote me an email about his experience getting tickets for the Olympics today, and he said it would be okay to share this with the rest of you- I thought you would find the contracts between his report and the...
by Whitney | Jul 24, 2008 | Uncategorized
This is a follow up to my recent post on the Social Contract. Humans have a basic need for social connection. The experiments done by Harlow and others in the 50’s show that primates need touch and nurturing to do well. In fact, many of the cases of failure to...
by Whitney | Jul 18, 2008 | community, economics, politics
There’s a great blog post over at IT Toolbox, on the Original Thinking blog by Dennis Stevenson on The Myth of Job Security- Employer Version, with a promise for a follow up giving the employee’s point of view. I was going to comment, but because my...
by Whitney | Jul 17, 2008 | Uncategorized
In this world, much of it works by the economic theory of supply and demand. This means that typically, when supply is tight, the price will be higher than when a commodity is in abundance, in which case the “equilibrium” price will be lower. (see the...
by Whitney | Jul 15, 2008 | Uncategorized
As many of you know, I have been involved in the planning and execution of a number of Podcamps to date, and I’ve also been involved in providing onsite services to people with disabilities at the Super Bowl in the past. Being part of these large events,...
