I’m logging this one under “Mind Control” because I think this is one of the best essays in recent memory about what is really going on in the mind’s of politicians. We, as a country, and the media, have become so obsessed with taking sides on debates that we’ve really blinded ourselves to what makes a good leader. It is not their policies.[^1] It is not their stances on certain issues. What is the ultimate test of a good leader is how they run their organizations. Chip Collis makes the excellent point that the one respect in which W and HRC are alike is in the fact that they favor cronyism over being open-minded and diplomatic. And cronyism is what really did damage to this country over the last eight years, from “Rumsfield to Brownie.” Do we want more of that?

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This entry is somewhat random — really just an email I wrote to my Dad this morning. it was one of those emails that illustrated the perspective of the older folks in our society who lived before all sorts of nifty things like TV, microwaves and penicillin. It seemed to connect with what I had recently read in The Economist about a digital generational divide. Here are my thoughts: Read more…