One of the topics I want to study more about is what we’re all going to do in the future for work and jobs. Part of the sharp upheaval of the 20th century of rapid economic development was that a stable career was not sustainable except for certain professions. It is true in the US [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Development’
June 16, 2009
We Want No Taxation, No Representation
Financial time bombs are no longer shocking to discover these days. Collateralized debt obligations, the American auto industry, real estate, credit, struggling state government balance sheets, etc.
IRC Stupidity
Yesterday Obama gave a speech on how health care needs to be fixed immediately as costs are spiraling out of control. The New Yorker just had a good [...]
May 31, 2009
Big, Interesting, Mysterious Pragmatic Problems
I’ve just finished a master’s program full of amazing classmates seeking policy solutions to some of the toughest problems the US and international institutions have to currently deal with. For my part, I deeply love to spend a lot of my recreational thinking time searching for gaps in solutions to problems — entrepreneurial thinking — [...]
April 6, 2009
Going International to Become More American
In mid-May, I will graduate with a Masters of Science in Foreign Service degree from Georgetown University. This program is within the School of Foreign Service, formed after World War I to train Americans to engage with the rest of the world both in business and in diplomacy. Today, about a third of our class [...]
March 24, 2009
Reinvigorating USAID
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 [...]
October 29, 2008
Why I Chose Development
When I tell people I’m studying development at grad school, their eyes glaze over. What does this mean?
Are they confused as to whether I mean business development as in getting new clients? Or as in employee training? Do they only understand what I mean if I say “international development” instead?
Do they know what the field [...]
October 13, 2008
Webheads for Africa
This is an aside but today’s market rally (Dow +936) was astounding. I barely made any money though (sadface) because most of the move was on a gap up and I think you would’ve had to be suicidal to buy on Friday to hold over the weekend. To be honest I don’t know [...]
October 3, 2008
Developing Nations and Leapfrogging
In Prof. Nelson’s “What’s Shaping the Internet” class yesterday, one of our colleagues gave a good presentation on broadband in Africa. We discussed a new backbone cable that will go live soon in Africa as well as the new O3b project to provide satellite service to the other 3 billion global citizens without internet access.
Our [...]
August 4, 2008
My Career
Perhaps the main thing I’ve been wrestling with since coming to Georgetown is what my career is going to look like.
I’ve struggled to apply to different think-tanks in town, some of which I’ve interviewed for and lost out to other people. I did manage to get a web contractor job at USAID for all [...]
July 14, 2008
Some Thoughts
Solar for Developmental Planning
I read this story about Baghdad installing solar panels for streetlamps.
I’m a little skeptical. Are there materials that people would want to strip these devices for? How durable would they be? And, well, do they actually work?
But I think it shows the potential of solar power. In the [...]
