Mitch's Blog

I’ve been lamenting for a long time the performance of our elected officials, and I mean almost all of them. I’m not overly pleased with what’s going on, and I’m not going to pick and choose who to blame. Instead, I’m going to castigate them as a whole for not doing what needs to be [...]

Last week I met a guy I’ve known for a long time for lunch. I wanted to meet him because I’ve known him for a long time, and I know he’s struggled with his career. I had once mentioned an idea to him that I thought he could pull off well, based on the little [...]

Sometimes the lessons leaders need to learn come from comedy. In this case I’m reminded of a skit that was on Saturday Night Live in the 80′s. In this particular skit, the priest went to see the mother superior because he’d been troubled by the behavior of some of the nuns recently. What he realized [...]

I was reading an issue of Discover Magazine where they were interviewing different scientists who are specialists in their fields on what they believe will be the biggest happenings over the next 30 years. One of the scientists was talking about being able to actually produce dinosaurs from old DNA for further study because science [...]

Over the past month or so I’ve been working my way through a book titled The Ethics of Star Trek. I usually read books very fast, but this one has so many concept involved that, well, I won’t say I’m struggling to get through it anymore, but it’s so detailed and compact that it’s become [...]