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Daycare and Other Broken Things
It's been a few decades since I needed to worry about daycare, but it seems to be getting more expensive, less available, and less predictable. Many parents are forced to work from home, either occasionally or on an ongoing basis, due to a lack of child care. This may...
Keeping Buildings Alive
I think everyone would agree that empty buildings can have several negative effects on communities. I'm currently working on a grant for tax credits. The grant gives the town tax credits that they can use as incentives to get businesses to move into buildings that...
AI Making Work Better
AI and remote work go together like Chinese food and Chocolate pudding. (Thank you, Ricky Bobby). Actually, we are still figuring it out and a lot is being thrown at us. Is AI going to eliminate all of our jobs or will it create lots of new jobs? I think we can look...
Remote Healthcare
One of the pushbacks for Universal Health care is that it costs too much. That's actually not true. Let's look at what's possible. In Taiwan, they offer Universal Health care and it costs approximately 6.5% of their GDP. In the U.S. we spend approximately 17% of our...
The Future of Government Offices
Wouldn't it be nice to have a crystal ball that shows what is going to happen in government? That might be a lot to ask. What about just where government employees are going to work? Even that is a tall order. Let's assume we aren't trying to predict it. Instead,...
Fixing Government
Everyone wants to fix the government, but nobody ever really succeeds. It's not that the ideas aren't right or that people aren't smart enough - but those can be problems too. It's because governments are ecosystems, and you can't just fix one part of it, or remove...
