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August 27, 2013     The debate rages: is it quality, or quantity? What’s the objective?     If you live in the “developing world” (our euphemism for billions whose needs are great, and whose supplies are minimal), quantity is the hands-down winner. If you live on one meal a day, anything that fills your […]

August 19, 2013     Most of us spend most of our days, lost in the micro… and blind to the macro.     In baseball, there is a strategy called small ball. The idea is simple: lacking any home-run hitters, the team relies on getting runners to first base. A steady flow of successes […]

August 12, 2013         There are just 25 days left…     “Until what?” is the reasonable question. It’s months until Christmas shopping closes; schools are already reopening across the country. No NASA launches in the new sequester era. What’s up?     There are only seven times each year when the […]

August 5, 2013     “The Childfree Life.”     The headline for this week’s cover story in Time magazine grabs your attention. You’ll seldom see the words “child” and “free” welded together; the government estimates the cost of the trip from birth to 18 – for families making more than $100k/year – to be […]