All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
I just finished Anthony Doerr’s novel “All the Light We Cannot See,”* which won...
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Warning: Insurance company gadgets could be hazardous to your safety
I recently got a letter from my auto insurance company offering me a deal: Install a little electronic gadget in our cars, and we would receive a discount on our insurance rates. The gadget would plug-in to the on-board computer...
Read MoreA sane analysis of Obamacare
Greensboro benefits consultant Rob Luisana has an unusually sane, balanced discussion of the pros and cons of the Affordable Care Act (or Obamacare, as its opponents like to call it). It’s worth a read. If the ACA is...
Read MoreMost popular web content isn’t journalism
That digital publishing more closely resembles everything-that’s-not-a-newspaper than it does newspapers is an interesting fact about newspapers not about digital publishing. Vox: The most popular stuff on the web...
Read MoreTricks for meeting deadlines
Researchers have uncovered some tricks that can help you meet deadlines by manipulating your own psychology: Research into procrastination has noted that people have much less concern about their future selves than their present...
Read MoreStudy: Expanding N.C. Medicaid would create 43,000 jobs
According to a study funded by two state foundations, expanding Medicaid in North Carolina could create about 43,000 jobs and $22 billion in new business activity. (In addition, of course, to the benefits that would accrue to...
Read MoreWhat scientific idea is ready for retirement?
2014 Edge Annual Question Video by Jesse Dylan from Edge Foundation on Vimeo. (via boing boing and io9)
Read MoreReview: “Smartcuts: How Hackers, Innovators and Icons Accelerate Success”
I read Shane Snow’s “Smartcuts: How Hackers, Innovators and Icons Accelerate Success” over the holidays. The book lays out several strategies that high achievers have used to achieve success faster than their...
Read MoreHunter S. Thompson on what you should do with your life
This is several months old, but worth posting with New Year’s around the corner. Hunter S. Thompson, legendary gonzo journalist, offers some very solid advice in this 1958 letter to a friend. So if you now number yourself...
Read MoreRed states are using Obamacare to rip themselves off
This will not deter any of the ACA-haters, of course, but this analysis of the impact of GOP refusals to participate in healthcare expansions is very interesting. North Carolina is one of about 15 red states, Ezra Klein says,...
Read MoreWhy you’re not getting a raise, part 2
The Washington Post has an interesting piece exploring the “hollowing out” of the middle class, a phenomena that North Carolina — and the Triad area of North Carolina especially — has been at ground zero at. In 1979,...
Read MoreWhy you’re not getting a raise, part 1
Money that employers might have used to give you raises (or bigger raises) the last few years instead has been going to pay for higher health insurance premiums. This is not new – economists have been saying this for years...
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