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    • America’s Future
      • Where is America heading? An introduction
      • Where is America heading? Trends
      • Where is America heading? A likely future
      • Where is America heading? Unexpected factors
      • Updating America’s state structure
      • Implementing proxy voting for children
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      • How to reduce wealth inequality
      • A more interesting way to spend $1 billion
      • Podcast: reflections on capitalism
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      • A better keyboard layout: DVORAK
      • Simplifying coinage and pricing—eliminate the penny, and more
      • Using reverse auctions to select CEOs and determine executive compensation
    • Sports
      • A new scoring system for golf
      • A new structure for college football
      • Restructuring college football: how might it work?
      • How the college football playoff should really work
      • New rules to make soccer more entertaining
      • A new scoring system for basketball
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New content for 2023

Posted on December 22, 2022 by crimson_93@yahoo.com · Leave a comment

Over the last few years I have been working on two main topics. The first is mastery learning, where I have partnered with schools and organizations to transform how learning happens. The second is volunteer consulting for nonprofit leaders, mainly in areas like strategy, finance, and operations, though I am often simply called a “CEO […]

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Reactions to initial ideas

Posted on November 1, 2015 by crimson_93@yahoo.com · Leave a comment

Over the last several weeks I have had lots of fun and interesting discussions about topics from the site. The new golf scoring system seemed to be the most popular concept, and several people said they would try it out the next time they hit the course. One friend was particularly struck by the predictions […]

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  • The Pragmatic Manager’s Toolkit
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  • How to reduce wealth inequality
  • A new scoring system for golf
  • A new structure for college football
  • Updating America’s state structure
  • Restructuring college football: how might it work?
  • The veil of ignorance  (John Rawls)
  • Podcast: reflections on capitalism

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