Entries from March 2007

How to Act in Ignorance, Part II

March 23rd, 2007 · 1 Comment

A famous motivational speaker these days says “you’ve got to spend 95% of your time on the solution.”

I’ve been thinking a lot about this–how our dominant American society focuses on solutions. A pragmatic, “this is how the world is, and we need to deal with this” point of view. Protestantism in the old-fashioned sense […]

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Cantileveraging Tourism

March 20th, 2007 · 3 Comments

A Las Vegas developer has built a $40 million dollar glass-bottomed walkway, cantilevered over the edge of the Grand Canyon and giving a view of the bottom 4,000 feet below. It’s sited on reservation land.

The local Hualapai Indian tribe was divided. The tribe numbers about 2,000 tribe and a third live in poverty. 50% unemployment. […]

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