Leap

I’m looking forward to reading Leap, based on what I’ve read so far at the Blog of Tim Ferriss.  According to Leap, Bill Gates and many other seemingly crazy entrepreneurs didn’t really risk much at all when they started their companies.  They took calculated risks and leveraged opportunities while simultaneously working their arses off.  I never new that Mary [...]

Subsidizing both the Treatment and Cause of Type II Diabetes

From Michael Pollan’s Op Ed in the NY Times:

And so the government is poised to go on encouraging America’s fast-food diet with its farm policies even as it takes on added responsibilities for covering the medical costs of that diet. To put it more bluntly, the government is putting itself in the uncomfortable position of subsidizing [...]