Som good ideas here: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/o...

Super interesting history and ideas: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/o...

“A resurgent freight rail industry would benefit businesses, the public and the planet.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/b...

It’s up to humans to determine how robots get used. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/b...

Innovating emergency housing www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/a...

Some innovation and progress on increasing the housing supply www.nytimes.com/2025/08/02/b...

Mutually leveraging public and private investment has been the U.S. superpower in so many endeavors. Will we keep it up?https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/13/business/windborne-weather-noaa-cuts.html?unlocked_article_code=1.WE8.1Itc.-vJVHap6Y7R1&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Farmers banding together to reach more buyers while growing more sustainably www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/c...

They need a lot of clean firm energy. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/t...

This is good news for domestic auto manufacturing. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/b...

They need domestic, clean, firm resources like geothermal and nuclear energy, just like we do. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/b...

Water conservation can work. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/h...

U.S. government gets a “golden share” - Is this a new model or a one-off? www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/b...

Excellent news: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/c...

We need more of this: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/b...

Just finished How Big things Get Done by Bent Flybjerg and Dan Gardner. A very readable geeky book. His rules for project success are (1) Hire a master builder, (2) Get your team right, (3) Ask “Why”, (4) Build with Lego (modularly), (5) Think slow, act fast, (6) Take the outside view,

A New Liquid Gold www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/s...

Policy and business decisions have to account for real-world constraints www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/b...

So cool… www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/s...

This is interesting: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/19/o...

Sisterhood of ap a keeps males in line www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/s...

Well this is interesting…https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/science/bonobos-matriarchies-females.html?unlocked_article_code=1.DE8.l3Nm.AqCM4ijEzCQB&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Leadership is disappointing people at a rate they can handle.

Just went to an excellent Politics and Prose event for this remarkably timely book.

good points from the NYT opinion section today: “The answer to a politics of scarcity is a politics of abundance; a politics that asks what it is that people really need and then organizes government to make sure there’s enough of it.” -Ezra Klein

Global interest in the nuclear energy sector is at its highest since the 1970s. techxplore.com/news/2025-03...

Newly resonant old joke: Man #1: “My brother-in-law thinks he’s a chicken.” Man #2: “Have you taken him to a psychiatrist?” Man #1: “I can’t. I need the eggs.”

Science can be awe-inspiring - discovering the wonders of the universe in the sea and sky www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/s... and www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/s...

Just saw the coolest exhibit of Lego art by artist Nathan Sawaya - The Art of the Brick at the Rhode Island Center in DC.

Why do we have independent agencies? Their bipartisan leadership and specialized expertise enables vital economic activities, provides regulatory certainty for long-term investment, and maintains public trust.

I've now seen all the Oscar nominees for best international film. Tough call between "I'm Still Here" & "The Seed of the Sacred Fig". One is based on a true story in Brazil & the other is historical fiction set in Iran. Each explores the impact of brutal dictatorship on a particular family.

Firing the newest federal employees is the opposite of what we should be doing. We need their new ideas, new skills and new perspectives for the government to best serve the American people.

Why do we have a permanent professional civil service? To provide independent and expert input to political leaders, and to ensure the continuity of essential public functions through changing political leadership.

Wondering what federal employees do? To see examples of what excellent civil servants do, see the Government Success Database of the Partnership for Public Service: : ourpublicservice.org/our-solution...

One of the Giant Pandas at National Zoo in DC. You need passes but it’s free!

When the infamous bankrobber Willy Sutton was asked why he robbed banks, he said, “Because that’s where the money is.” If we want to improve government efficiency, we should look at where the explosion in costs is coming from. And it’s not from the federal civilian workforce.