Separating Productive Populism from its Worst Impulses Ray Dalio, The Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail Charles Goodhart, Manoj Pradhan, The Great Demographic Reversal: Ageing Societies, Waning Inequality and an Inflation Revival When Colorado Private Equity partners Chad Brue and Geoff Baukol invested in the mountains instead of Read more…
The bio on Andrew Yang’s book says he has “been the CEO, co-founder or executive of a number of technology and education companies.” He leveraged success to train “the next generation of entrepreneurs” through his non-profit, Venture for America. In The War on Normal People: The Truth about America’s Disappearing Read more…
Happy City by Charles Montgomery features encouraging stories about places improved by individuals. The first and best story of Happy City is about the Mayor of Bogota who altered the Columbian capitals’ sense of possibility through no-car days. Happy City sprints from Athens through tales of modern places revealing urban Read more…
The author depicts this book as “a debate with my friends” deconstructing familiar TED talks, business consulting strategies, and events at The Aspen Institute where the author was a fellow in 2011, so just how radical Winners is as social critique will sneak up on readers. Author Anand Giridharadas rubs Read more…
If there was ever a time for a plainspoken, avuncular wise voice to remind us of the shared path that has bound us as Americans, and remind us how much has shifted (in how we absorb news, and how we have blurred the opinion vs objective news separation, and how Read more…
Kurt Andersons’ Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500 Year History is an unsettling read for unsettling times. I picked Fantasyland off the shelf because just like every other American, I believe the country is “haywire.” I feel compelled to attempt to understand how we got here. Fantasyland proved an Read more…
I read of the events of that day in 2004 when I was mayor of a nearby town. It didn’t take long to mentally connect Granby’s destroyed Town Hall with the one in which I found myself in on a weekly basis. I surmised what might have “led” to this Read more…
The Thin Blue Line is a phrase once used by law enforcement for their role as officers entrusted with maintaining the line separating anarchy from order. It was the title of a 1988 movie on those themes. Local elected officials managing public hearings don’t often consider their actions in similar Read more…
No one was killed on June 4, 2004, in Granby, Colorado during an attack in which significant swaths of Town were destroyed utterly by a pre-meditated act. Had it been a foreign terrorist act, it may have started a war. The motives of the business owner who operated the dozer Read more…