Flashback

 

Memories of Driving I-95

 Traffic was a little crazy when I worked in Washington, DC and yet.

Kubrick

Althouse admits that she has not seen all of Stanley Kubrick's films.

Neither have I. 

It's nice to learn that I am not the only person who has never watched "Spartacus." 

A great film-maker, of course, but how many of his films would you want to watch more than once? Do I really want to see "Clockwork Orange" or "The Shining" or "Barry Lyndon" again?

On the other hand, "Dr. Strangelove" is a multi-view movie.

Universities and Covid

 Common Sense: Marty Makary on "Universities' Covid policies defy science and reason."

Didion

 

Focus Pocus

Nice people will interrupt you. Attractive projects will distract you. Good deeds will soak up time. Needed rest will take you to bed. Sunrises. Sunsets. Clouds. Beauty. Love. Nature.

Not everything that erodes your focus is bad.

That's why life is complicated. Sometimes you need to get off track. Sometimes the track is a trench.

The Great Woke North

 Tara Henley on why she resigned from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

Big Picture

 It's not sufficient for the senior leadership team to have real work; it also must be crystal clear to members what the ultimate purpose of the work is.

- Ruth Wageman, Debra A. Nunes, James A. Burruss, and J. Richard Hackman in Senior Leadership Teams: What It Takes to Make Them Great

Free Speech for Me, But Not for Thee

 Reason magazine: Nick Gillespie on a taxonomy of cancel culture.

It All Gets Back to Virtue

“Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.”

- Benjamin Franklin