It occurred to me that I might have a great way to inject some vitality and vigor into USAID. Granted, this is somewhat of a flippant post and doesn’t address all the serious policy issues that USAID has to deal with. But I figure with all the problems USAID is having, what with most Americans [...]
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December 9, 2008
Inefficiencies: Everywhere
I have this running series of posts grouped into “Inefficiencies”, where I want to look at really poorly-run business sectors and figure out how to attack them if I were an entrepreneur in their space. Thanks to the US’s infatuation with “free markets”, which really means protected corporatism these days, there’s a litany of examples [...]
December 7, 2008
Hawai’i Trying to Be a Better Place
[NOTE: Some of the stats used in this article are outdated but I think they still capture the depth of Hawai'i's energy risks.]
Hawai’i wants greater energy independence and is taking active steps and forming policies to do so.
This has fascinated me since this summer when I went to visit my brother on O’ahu. I stayed [...]
November 9, 2008
Enlarging the Playing Field
Tonight I was watching 60 Minutes and they were running a story on Obama’s advisors and how they managed the campaign. Anita Dunn, the communications, research, and policy advisor, said of David Plouffe, the campaign manager: “David’s mantra was that we were gonna enlarge the playing field.”
This struck me. The idea was that the campaign [...]
August 5, 2008
Imprinting
I opened up a Shelfari account and populated it with most of the books I’ve read from 2005 on — I don’t have a list of what I read before then.
It’s quite an easy service to use. Search for your book and edition, then add it to your shelf. Then add in some [...]
January 19, 2006
February Plans
When I get home (soon), I’m going to be over-hauling my web site. A lot will change for the better, offering a more distilled, pure version of benturner.com. I have a lot of new ideas for content. Most significantly, much of what comprises benturner.com will be made private; I’m building a private side and making [...]
