January 19, 2010
The trauma in Haiti is horrible. And not too long ago there was the earthquake nightmare in Pakistan/Azad Kashmir, and just before that, the tsunami in Southeast Asia. Major loss-of-life tragedies of this sort are the predictable result of natural catastrophe combined with non-existent building code, social safety net and security/police systems.
I dedicate this post to first responders the [...]
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January 5, 2010
Family
(Readership of this blog stretches to over 120 countries, but as I prepared to post this particular essay I realized the message is most applicable to parents in the western world, parents who have the luxury to over-complicate things. Parents in the developing world, where basic survival is often the day’s challenge, will intuitively understand the mechanical sensibility of what I discuss here.)
Flash! Your child doesn’t need [...]
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