Friday, I finally had lunch with Jim McGee (McGee’s Musings).
This was a long-delayed pleasure, prompted by Buzz Bruggeman who urged
us to get together.
How long delayed? So chaotic were both our summers that, when we
finally sat down to the buffet lunch at the Bombay Club, Jim was toting two carry-ons, headed back to Chicago.
I won’t duplicate Jim’s generous and witty blogging of our talk.
Jim is a knowledge-management honcho, and it shows when you talk to him
or read his stuff. Just one of Jim’s comments that I found fascinating:
“In our society, we tend to privatize profits and socialize costs.”
I just Amazon-ordered Garrett
Hardin’s Filters Against Folly: How to Survive Despite Economists, Ecologists, and the Merely Eloquent,
as recommended by Jim.
p.s. If Buzz Bruggeman web-troduces you to Jim,
don’t waste two months before having lunch with him!