The Ethical Mind

This is a pdf of an article in the Harvard Business Review:

harvard study.pdf (application/pdf Object)

Read and heed!

Rice Biz Plans

I have been a judge at the Rice Alliance Business Plan competition for three years now. I enjoy it more than any of the other organized events I attend.

36 schools from all over the world come to Houston and compete for over $300,000 in prizes. They present real business plans for real businesses. In some cases the businesses are already generating some revenue. In others, they are just getting started.

I participate in several of the events. The first is the feedback round. This is an informal round where teams present their plans to a group of judges and they get (unscored) feedback. This is the best. It is very interactive, and the teams generally take the feedback and make their presentations better.

The next is the Elevator Pitch competition. This is where each team has 60 seconds to pitch their idea and company. Intense! Some of these are quite amusing.

Then I judge the competition itself, followed by the while card round. (The wild card round is the #2 teams from each of the 6 flights). I don’t judge the final round. Too hard to make a decision!

The awards dinner is tonight. I know who my favorite is.

Let Sleeping Pigs Lie

St. Patrick's Day

Today is St Pat's day. I have not really celebrated this holiday for a while. But we do have an Irish Sports Bar down the street from us called Griff's.

All the street parking is full, and you can hear the music pounding in the yard. It is 2:12 in the afternoon.

Erin go Braugh!

Analogy Punctuations

Punctuation in Politics

Skilling gets 24+

Skilling

Lay's conviction vacated.

Vacated

Justice may be served, but it sure doesn't feel right

Hitch Quote

"What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof."

Christopher Hitchens

College Excuses

Top Ten No Sympathy Lines

On the road again

I have been spending too much time at work, and on my other, self indulgent aging blog to post more of my interesting insights (right) here.

And now we will be taking another trip to France – part for work, part for fun (does this seem to be a habit?). During this time, I will be reposting to my Europe 2006 blog, since it is still 2006, and I will be once again in Europe. We will be eating at some interesting restaurants (at least ONE three star!) and I will be posting comments about the food and wine.

Send me an e-mail if you want me to send you a post card.

Hitch on Terrorists and The Left

Stranger in a Strange Land

Science backs up the Pope!

CTV.ca | Long work hours linked to high blood pressure

Pluto a Planet No More.

SciGuy: Pluto's fate has been decided -- NOT A PLANET

So sad.

It will always be a planet in my heart.

Makes you glad to be Catholic!

Pope: Working too hard harms the spirit

Good site for bad science

Not Even Wrong

Not necessarily about Global Warming

The most interesting thing is the heat equation. We are making our cities hotter for sure - that heat has to go somewhere:

The deluded world of air conditioning. By William Saletan

Bad news for secure passports

Wired News: Hackers Clone E-Passports

Summertime

These are really the dog days of summer. It seems as if half of our staff and ¾ of our clients are on vacation. We always forecast a low July, and we were able to meet that. Or even end up lower that forecast! Man oh man.

I recently finished the book Theft by Peter Carey. It is set in Australia and New York City. It is a novel about the art community. What is good, how do agents and galleries work, who is hot, who is not. What gets stolen and why. Oh, it is also a love story. I have read several of Carey’s other books and was fond of them. Well, all except for Oscar and Lucinda. I could not abide that one.

If you like wine, here is a great v-blog worth spending some time with. Very fun.

Poor Andy!

Law Blog � Duck, Andy! (Or Just Stand There and Take it Like a Felon)

Another great Jon Katz dog story on Slate

Can a dog be a workaholic? By Jon Katz