Recently I’ve read two good recent articles on Health Savings Accounts and their usefulness reducing health care costs, increasing health care quality, and helping employees take home more cash.
When I was on the management team at a former company, we agonized about employees’ health care. Not just how (or whether) to absorb the astonishing annual [...]
My friend Andres Glusman works at Meetup in some capacity (Insights? Marketing? Strategy? Products? any/all of the above?) concerned with web product design.
Earlier this month (February 2010) he gave the following excellent presentation at a Meetup in NYC. I don’t know his co-author Anna DeYoung, but let’s give her some credit, too.
Really good stuff here [...]
Sometimes the plea for better grammar isn’t just pedantry, but rather a desire for clearer, more efficient communication. (At least that’s how I’ll justify this post to you, my three readers.)
It seems obvious to me that “written” (committed to paper) and “oral” (spoken) are just two more distinct forms of “verbal” (using words). Yet in [...]
I’m no fan of spectator sports, but I often like the writing they inspire.
And I love the following sentence, from John Updike’s 1960 New Yorker article about Ted Williams:
For me, Williams is the classic ballplayer of the game on a hot August weekday, before a small crowd, when the only thing at stake is the [...]
Over the past few years I’ve posted more than a thousand photos to Flickr. A few of them are actually good.
But somehow this mundane shot of an electric bass is the most-viewed. Thousands of looks at this unremarkable photo, followed by hundreds of others in the same set.
Posted only as a supplement to a for-sale [...]
Regular readers of my blog (both of you!) come here for comments on Scotch whiskey, maybe also the occasional photo album of funny street signs.
And my friends (yes, both of you!) know that I’m generally apolitical, at least in the sense of organized party affiliation. Certainly I have little to add to the vast flood [...]
