Bruce Fleming, “The Academies’ March Toward Mediocrity” raises several interesting points about the US Military Service Academies. One paragraph particularly caught my eye: Meanwhile, the academy’s former pursuit of excellence seems to have been pushed aside by the all-consuming desire to beat Notre Dame at football (as Navy did last year). To keep our teams [...]
One of my current readings is “A Way to Victory, The Annotated Book of Five Rings, Miyamoto Musashi’s Classic Guide to Strategy” Translation and Commentary by Hidy Ochiai. Hidy Ochiai provides a good description of two methods or types of perceptions when it comes to observing people and things. Perception that is “mechanical or physical” [...]
A recent article on the New York Times, “A Medical Bill You May Not Have to Pay,” reminded me of a billing practice a few medical practices that seems very under-handed, if not fraudulent. I’m not sure what they call it in the industry, but one of my colleagues refers to it as “variable rate [...]