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Gary Becker, Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, wrote an excellent piece on the recently-passed health care finance reform legislation. Yet when I was recently asked whether I prefer the present healthcare bill to no change in the health delivery system for a decade, I answered “no change”. [...] [...]
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 [...]
“Lean Usability” at Meetup
22-Feb-10My 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 [...]
Written and Oral: They’re Both Verbal
16-Feb-10Sometimes 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 [...]
A Favorite Quote: Taking the Long View
29-Jan-10I’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 [...]
