When I joined the Affton School District Board of Education in 2007 I did not understand much of what I was getting into. I had attended meetings, I had met with current board members, I had even met with the sitting superintendent. I had done my homework so I was prepared. My research on the […]
My smartphone journey was a real trip down a geeky memory lane. It was also a reminder of lessons learned and ways to spot innovations doomed to failure. We can use the success and failure of past products to predict new and future product performance. Economic, political and other business factors can influence the […]
As a school board member I am bombarded with information, statistics and acronyms. These are the products of our current system of education. There are those that see this and assume that the system is broken. They assume it needs to be discarded and thrown away. After actually getting involved instead of assuming, I have […]
Watching the rotisserie of new candidates be feasted upon by the media is endlessly frustrating. The over analysis of comments, the search for errors in ideas, the constant anticipation of miscues, these are all irrelevant to the issue at hand. We are trying to select a President, not identify who is the most perfect. On […]
More and more we are a country run by extremists. We flop from Democratic to Republican leaders every few elections and the two parties are becoming more extreme every year. Part of this is driven by the media, requiring something to be titillating before they will report it. The sensationalism drives us to a place where […]
All of my adult life I have watched the steady progression of manufacturing jobs moving out of the country. Two of the most damaging moves have been NAFTA and free trade with China. American workers were simply sold out, they argued a bit but eventually forgot about it. Politicians this last generation stopped thinking about […]