David’s Articles

The highlights:  The Value of Design, Philanthropic Struggles, and Photocopiers. Fifteen on Friday - 10/26/18 - Issue 306 Happy Friday Everyone, After a week off for Fall Break, Fifteen on Friday is back to its regular schedule. Have a great weekend, David Food for...

This week's highlights:  The Walmart of Heroin, Malls of the Future, and The World's Hardest Math Problem Fifteen on Friday - 10/12/18 - Issue 305 Food for Thought: NYT - Trapped by the ‘Walmart of Heroin’  A Philadelphia neighborhood is the largest open-air narcotics...

This week's highlights:  The Corruption of Scholarship, Inside WhatsApp, and Schizophrenia and the Immune System Fifteen on Friday - 10/05/18 - Issue 304 Food for Thought: Areo - Academic Grievance Studies and the Corruption of Scholarship  Something has gone wrong in...

This week's highlights:  Fighting Poverty, Debt Bubbles, and Zinc Batteries Fifteen on Friday - 09/28/18 - Issue 303 Food for Thought: GatesFoundation - 2018 Goalkeepers Report.  To put it bluntly, decades of stunning progress in the fight against poverty and disease...

This week's highlights:  Lawnmower Parents, The Last Short Seller, and Tiny Homes Fifteen on Friday - 09/21/18 - Issue 302 Food for Thought: WAT - Lawnmower Parents Are the New Helicopter Parents & We Are Not Here for It  Chances are, you’ve met this new breed of...

This week's highlights:  James Madison and Mobs, Timing the Market, Downsides of Early Retirement   Fifteen on Friday - 09/14/18 - Issue 301 Happy Friday Everyone - Our thoughts are with the FoF readers in the Carolinas - stay safe everyone! Best, David Food for...

This week's highlights:  Finding Family, Speed and Incentives, and Comcast tackles healthcare. Fifteen on Friday - 09/05/18 - Issue 300 Well here it is - the 300th issue of Fifteen on Friday.  Maybe this is a classic warning to be careful what you begin.  Little did I...

This week's highlights:  The Problems with Skim Reading, Avoiding Venture Capital, and Bat Material Fifteen on Friday - 08/31/18 - Issue 299 Food for Thought: TheGuardian - Skim reading is the new normal. The effect on society is profound - Credit SC - When the...

This week's highlights:  A Nation of Hoarders, TripAdvisor, and Baseball's Woes Fifteen on Friday - 08/24/18 - Issue 298 Food for Thought: TheAtlantic - ‘We Are All Accumulating Mountains of Things’  How online shopping and cheap prices are turning Americans into...

This week's highlights:  Success in College, Managing the Helmsley Trust, and The Magic of Bees. Fifteen on Friday - 08/17/18 - Issue 297 Happy Friday Everyone - Periodically I post updates of a few interesting books that may be worth your time (in addition to your...