In life — work, home, relationships of all kinds — there are people who “brung ya to the dance.” Sometimes we forget them, and this is a mistake. It is essential to remember them, both because gratitude is a noble emotion and so you also remember to pass it on.
Read MoreMy own behavior has changed over the last two years in the course of Amasia’s research into sustainability and climate change. For this new year of 2021, I am sharing a more personal manifesto.
Read MoreOur recruiting process isn’t an automated one. We read every application. Most candidates have a strong resume and transcript. What often sets candidates apart is the cover letter. So here are three Dos and three Don’ts, very much of in the spirit of being helpful.
Read MoreThe table at the end of this post, which can be sorted and filtered, lays out goals and actions regarding climate and the environment for six Bay Area counties: San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Alameda, Contra Costa, and Marin.
Read MoreI’ve come late to the realization that the fight against the coronavirus is truly a war. It has a well-defined enemy; it has invaded our home front; it requires total mobilization. A year or two from now, your child (or friend or relative or colleague) is going to ask: what did you do in the war? Your answer better be a good one.
Read MoreI’m almost exclusively vegetarian. I am so by choice but after reading this article I wanted to dig a little deeper about the interrelationship with climate. TL;DR: it is much more complicated than you think (or I thought before Alina Goh pulled together a bunch of research).
Read MoreThird and last in my series of “factoid” posts about climate denial.
Read MoreI am going to dribble out “factoid” posts about climate denial. These are not intended for actual climate deniers. As I’ve written elsewhere, droning on about the data is not going to make a difference. It is for people I think of as “climate-aware” — to provide useful Information that might clarify things in your own mind.
Read MoreThe structure of modern life, from the conveniences in the First World to the massive poverty alleviation that has taken place in the Third World, is dependent on energy consumption. Nobody is going to sign up for being back in the Stone Age, foraging for berries and communicating by smoke signal. And yet: there are simple things we can all do to “do our bit” without feeling like we’ve taken a hatchet to that which makes life worth living.
Read MoreThis essay is a reaction to Don’t Even Think About It, by George Marshall. This is not an academic work. It is conversational and accessible, and I found it interesting enough to want to inflict my response on an unsuspecting world.
Read MoreIt's been an extraordinary few days in Silicon Valley — a high-profile VC firm has been “blasted off the earth” and the industry is reacting in unusually visible ways.
The reactions have varied from the half-assed apology to the pre-emptive apology to the we-took-care-of-it apology to the high-minded-appeal-to-principles apology to the apology-of-the-day apology, from prominent VC firms (Lightspeed, Lowercase, 500Startups, Greylock and Binary respectively). Sadly all immediately put one in mind of Captain Renault in *Casablanca*.
Read MoreThe appointment of Satya Nadella as CEO of Microsoft has been greeted with joy within the Indian American community and in his native country. I find Nadella's story, however, not especially illustrative of the "success" of Indians in America; there are plenty of prior examples, and there will be others in the future, as there have been for immigrant communities from the Jews to the Irish. That part of the story is a non-story.
A better illustration of the assimilation of Indian Americans may be their pro rata participation in major large-scale white collar crimes, as so brilliantly outlined by my Penn classmate, Anita Raghavan. Thereby showing that Indian Americans are just as good or bad as the rest of America -- what could be more illustrative of assimilation than that?
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