Rethinking the Economy

There’s nothing like owning the mistakes you’ve made to help keep your ego a healthy size. Since it’s almost the end of the year, I thought it be a good time to come clean about the biggest mistakes I made in 2011. Two in particular stand out:
Bill McKibben: near the end of [...]

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By last week, my latest theory jag had run out of steam. I felt stuck and uninspired.
After 2 1/2 years of practice, I’ve finally gotten to the point where when I stop feeling inspired to write, I know it’s a sign. Not that I’m an idiot — although it sure feels that way when [...]

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Working on my theory’s emotional resonance turned out to be a lot more complicated than I thought. Between that and the higher than normal level of crazy at work and in my personal life, I’m going to cut myself some slack. For the next three weeks, I’m going to be banging my head against the [...]

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When I started the Creating Good Jobs series, I was really fired up, especially because I was feeling stuck in the mud when it came to my framework. But now that I’ve worked on a few Creating Good Jobs posts, my brain’s back in gear. So, I’m going to take a week to regroup [...]

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Between various body parts acting up and a spike in craziness at work, I’m running behind. Rather than pushing my hands too hard and possibly blowing them out again, I’m going to follow my New Year’s resolution and give myself a week to catch up.
Up next week: a new series on creating good jobs.

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New year, new resolution: I’m going to really try to treat this blog like a journal. So, since I’ve been struggling with putting the pieces together, here’s a dump of the pieces:
Stack the Odds in Favor of the Good Guys
Really seeing other people’s point of view
(go deeper here — how hard it can be to [...]

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I’m feeling pretty brain dead from banging my head against the theory wall, and work on the rest of my life is getting pretty crazy. So, I’m going to take the rest of the year off. I’ll post whenever I bump into something interesting, but I’m going to give myself a little respite from making [...]

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I’d planned out a whole series on innovation and the economy. But after the first few posts, I’m running out of steam. Why? Because what I really want to do right now is bang my head against the places in my framework where I’m blocked. Even though I’ve been spending a lot of time [...]

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One of the questions I’ve been struggling with is, who do I want to talk to? When I’m putting together my framework, who’s the audience I want to imagine?
It’s tempting to spend my time banging heads with Professional Right – Raging Republicans and Democratic “deficit hawks” who only seem to get excited about actually doing [...]

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For the next month or two, I’m going to try to really take care of my hands so I can reduce the amount of pain medication I’m on. I’m also going to try to push myself hard to make some progress in my theorizing — and to do it by writing about the issues I’m [...]

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