Gluten is not the problem – herbicides are
See all those gluten-free foods at your local supermarket? Think you’re gonna lose weight when you eat them. Fuhgit about it. The skinny is that they are a useless fad. Don’t take my worthless opinion for it – instead check out the respected Consumer Reports’ article “6 Truths about a gluten free diet”. The conclusions […]
Climate Science Useless: the Real Problem is Behavioral
It has now become painfully obvious that all the climate science in the world isn’t going to do anything useful to change the climate. That’s because the problem is behavioral rather than primarily physical. In fact it’s probably the case that the more gloomy reports the climate scientists produce, the more people become inured to […]
The Ice-Bucket Challenge – Leadership for Sissies?
I’ve been watching all the celebrities getting involved in the ice-bucket challenge. It’s quite a sight. And you can’t gainsay the fact that so far it’s raised over $40 million for the fight against Lou Gehrig’s disease. That’s genuinely impressive. But isn’t the thinking behind it less so? The idea is that someone pours ice cold water over […]
How do Exoplanet Leaders Create Highly Sustainable Worlds? The 9 Leadership Principles of Really Prescient Aliens
So scientists are now finding a staggering number of exoplanets. My guess is that, eventually, we are going to find out that they harbor, or have harbored, an uncountable number of alien civilizations. I am also guessing that, of this huge number of alien civilizations, the vast majority will have, like us, destroyed or are […]
The Role of Chutzpah in Leadership: Re-Electrify GE with Elon Musk?
You don’t hear much about that one, chutzpah, right? Yet its probably one of the most under-rated of the leadership qualities. The polite definition of a person with chutzpah is someone who likes to disrupt the status quo. The impolite one is it’s someone who likes to stick it in the eye to an organization […]