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Saturday, September 15, 2001
Back to the other stuff that matters 
| | Tamim Ansary's piece (below) has been spreading by email all over the Net. It states our dilemma rather exactly, I believe. |
| | And for now I'll let that stand. |
| | Since Tuesday I've blogged more than I've worked, and that's a backward ratio I can only maintain for so long. |
| | Be with your loved ones, friends. Make calls. Connect. Hug. Get to work. Carry on. I'll be doing my best to do the same. |
Grounding the economy
| | I'm thinking of driving next week instead of flying. And I'm a very frequent flyer. And on the radio I hear news that Delta is cutting 20% of its flights and laying off thousands. Midway airlines is going bankrupt. The majors are all losing billions. |
Less hope for the hopeless
| | What a surprise that Osama bin Laden, our new satan, would take refuge in Earth's living hell. |
Rudy rulez
| | Even from a distance it's obvious that Rudolph Guilliani will go down in history as New York City's greatest mayor, ever. But one can't sense the full shape of leadership outside its orbit. Isabel Walcott is there, and shares this report with her friends. Her first report is here. One excerpt: |
| | Giuliani's popularity had declined until this disaster occurred. He has found his true calling with handling this disaster. He speaks eloquently, with no repetition, no unnecessary information, and all the necessary information. His opinions are sound and he takes questions from the press, answering them reasonably until they don't have any more. |
| | And I still haven't heard him call his city's pain a cause for vengeance. |
He's a mench and a mathematician
| | It has become clear that the odds that somebody died in Tuesday's attacks depended not only on what tower they were in (WT2 = better, WT1 = worse), and what floor they were on (lower = better), but also on what their job title was (lawyer = good, securities trader = bad). Jobs mattered because they determined who showed up early for work. Traders start early, have meetings, read the paper, and otherwise ramp up before the markets open. Lawyers can show up later. |
| | We hate to weigh the value of our friends, but while news about Michael was not forthcoming, I found myself calculating our loss if he had been among the thousands of dead (his company is in an old building about a block from the World Trade Center). In addition to being a great guy, he's a first-rate businessman of boundless energy and a genuine polymath. It often boggles my mind how much wisdom he brings to just about any subject, even though is only about thirty years old. I'm fifty-four and Michael is one of the guys I call for sage advice. What a grace to find him still among us. |
| | His first report is here. |
Rise and find
| | Euan Semple on facts worth remembering and questions only children can answer. |
Paradise
| | One big reason we moved to our new neighborhood was because it was a neighborhood. It had lots of nice folks with lots of kids and a local school in the midst. |
| | Tonight we had a spontaneous gathering down at the beach. We brought candles and tried to sit quietly, but the silence didn't last long (especially after we showed up a bit late with Jeffrey). After a short while the big boys were all experimenting with candles and wax while the little ones ran in circles and climbed over rocks and the parents just sat and talked and got to know each other better. |
| | The girls.... well, there were no girls. Just parents and a dozen or so boys ranging from just under 5 years old on up to 13. The youngest was Jeffrey. He was, and is, in hog heaven. Far as he's concerned, we have moved to paradise. |
| | The parents are all terrific people, too. Looks like Jeffrey's right. |
| | Without this week's events, we wouldn't have discovered this quite so soon. |
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