It's an art to be optimistic for the right reasons and pessimistic for the right reasons (by "right" I mean "right" according to you, of course, and I guess I'll let "right" according to others slide in there as well).

Costs and benefits are inherent in all phenomena that involve more than one person or one outcome.
It's often easier to express one ( Read more... )

The title of this entry embodies one of the major reasons why I have spent my post-Macalester years exactly the way I have spent them, with good reason. I think big-to-small. I am a conceptual-monger. I attack ideas from the top and then, eventually, get to the details. The details are sometimes hard for me, but the big picture never is. And, when ( Read more... )