Author: Joe Kaempf

A manuscript that highlights W. Edwards Deming is worth reading,……my bias. Drs. Litt and Hintz discuss challenges of high-risk infant follow-up programs, and the need for enhanced…

209 years ago today two inspiring heroes were born, February 12, 1809.  Just a moment of gratitude. Spectacular contributions, incalculable positive influence, both bedazzle exponentially…

Two requests from friends:  a) a useful shared decision-making review, b) a poem. Shared decision-making is akin to Bayesian-thinking,……we do it every day naturally…

Shakespeare’s genius created characters in literature, perhaps the first writer to portray humans as heroic and flawed, triumphal and defeated, insightful and blind,…..in short, what readers…

Recent events are unsettling, in the tumult some disparaging descriptions:  “Person X is Machiavellian”,…..“Group Y is using Machiavellian strategies to push their agenda”.  Venal…

I don’t favor the agonistic theory of literature or creative culture.  Art can rightfully and productively be emulative, even imitative.  Absorbing past masters and…

Arguably History’s most accomplished intellect, with accomplishments spanning science, philosophy, statesmanship, novels, and poetry. Read what Johann von Goethe perceptively said about poetry: The key difference…

Think again of the beautiful Pensées – Blaise Pascal’s (1623-1662) masterpiece, born of quiet thought that has bridged time, culture, religion, and science: Man is but a reed,…

You might enjoy the attached commentary:  a) provocative, b) combines insight and gross oversimplification, c) several accurate and inaccurate statements, d) the very definition…

Rene Descartes (1596-1650) is said to be the “original modern philosopher”.  This puzzles me as there are novel thinkers of his time who were…