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This passage of news made me shudder:“The White House is discussing easing social-distancing guidelines as early as next week amid a broader debate over how much economic loss the country can bear to save an unknowable number

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Why the Coronavirus Panic

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Mar 20, 2020March 20, 2020 - 11:38

One characteristic that distinguishes humans from other living creatures, that makes us unique, is the need to understand. Other living systems have an organism that guides the what, how, when, and with whom of action,

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Justice in Peri

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Mar 13, 2020March 13, 2020 - 8:47

Years ago, I sued a former associate for stealing and appropriating my intellectual property. We went to court. After two hundred thousand dollars in legal fees, I lost on a technicality. I protested, where

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Who is the Client? The Hypocrisy!

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Mar 6, 2020March 6, 2020 - 9:44

Clients are those entities for whom an organization exists to satisfy their needs. Who are those clients? According to the Chicago school of economics, led by the Milton Friedman thesis and followed largely by economists

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Once Again on Love

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Feb 28, 2020February 28, 2020 - 9:27

Sahaj Marg, meaning the Natural Way or Heartfulness, is a Mission that practices and promotes a meditation that focuses on the heart. I practice it. It has a prayer. To paraphrase the prayer, it

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How to Make a Complete Decision

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Feb 21, 2020

To have a decision that will be implemented as desired, we need a complete decision. A complete decision is one that answers the five questions that it is imperative to ask. The imperatives are: why, what, how, who, and by when. Leaving one or more imperatives out confuses delegation

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Success is to Have Successful Failures

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Feb 14, 2020

Life is never smooth and free of troubles. Life is change, and change produces new challenges one needs to address. To address them, one needs to make decisions in situations of uncertainty, and the implementation of such decisions is risky. Thus, change spells: problems. So? I, for one, have

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The Dying Democracy

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Feb 7, 2020

Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu of Israel controlled the executive branch to the point that the most important ministerial roles he took for himself. He is accused of bribing the media to support him politically and is trying to control the

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On Gun Violence

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Feb 5, 2020

The right to bear arms, which is a constitutional right, was designed to grant people the right to oppose an oppressive government. I suggest that while this reasoning might have been legitimate when it was written into the Constitution,

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Extrinsic Versus Intrinsic Rewards In A World That Is Changing

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Jan 31, 2020

Extrinsic rewards are those that reward even if you do not necessarily do a task. Getting a subsidy , for instance. You still can buy something with the money although you did nothing to earn it. It is extrinsic because their perceived value