Failing to change the world
The new issue of Harvard Business Review focuses on failure. That’s not a […]
Category: readings
Time, gravity and the modern physicist
I took a class with Peter Galison last term, in which we studied […]
To borrow or not to borrow?
Will Americans decide it’s time to borrow again? The Wall Street Journal thinks […]
American kids aren’t dumb, after all
There’s a lot of talk about America’s failing schools. Here at Harvard, there […]
Hot Tuna and a Hippopotamus
It’s Ash Wednesday. Over breakfast, my children looked blankly at me as I […]
Five Books that Changed our World
It puzzles me that Harvard offers no courses on non-fiction narrative. I like […]
My Antonia
Curious to see what’s happened to story-telling over the course of the last […]
Why we work
Often I think our modern math and neuroscience just tell us what we […]
Dosteovsky’s view of behavioral economics
Sitting in my political economy class yesterday I watched Roberto Unger and Ricardo […]
Ordinary and extraordinary
I like poetry that speaks to the ordinary as well as the sublime. […]