Saturday, February 27, 2010

Those Millennials: Leaders of tomorrow?

Regardless of your political persuasion, check out this Feb. 25 piece by E. J. Dionne in The Washington Post:  "Under-30 Americans: The Next New Dealers"     
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/24/AR2010022404264.html

Bless those young Millennials, they're doing their own thing on the political scene and in the workplace.

They are not the leaders of tomorrow. The people who are in charge now are the leaders of tomorrow, because those with power do not willingly give it up.

If you desperately want to change something, almost certainly you don't have the power to do so.

Start connecting with people who share your desires and your vision, and build a networked base of power to do something about it.

Thursday, February 25, 2010

Dear Charlie Munger, Thanks but no thanks...

Charlie, thanks but no thanks for a rather pedestrian piece [ Charlie's remarks on slate.com ] with oh-so-thinly-veiled references to current real-world events and people, it's not particularly helpful to lecture us on the disastrous results of allowing ignorant CEOs to allow their ethically-challenged backroom quants to gamble in the nether world of derivatives with everyone else's money......


Why did you plug the date "2012" in there? You give no specific prediction, and I would have been surprised if you had.........

If you meant this piece to sway the opinions of folks who don't already know what you're talking about and who don't already agree with you, you wasted your time.

Your commentary is not particularly droll nor is it particularly enlightening nor is it particularly memorable...

Please stick to helping Warren run Berkshire Hathaway....

Your friend

Rick