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Accept Inconvenience and Floss Your Teeth: Fix FISA 702, Part IV
When things are too easy, we overuse and abuse them. Mailing a letter requires buying a stamp and walking to the ...
Simple Language and the SAFE Act: Fix FISA 702, Part III
The late comedian George Carlin talked about how, instead of simple words, we use “soft language” or euphemisms to ...
Warrantless Searches and the Four-Way Test: Fix FISA 702, Part II
Over the years, I’ve given dozens of Rotary talks, usually about the MIT baseball team or forestry, and often ...
Cats and Dogs Agree: Fix FISA 702, Part I
When cats and dogs agree on an issue, natural curiosity encourages us to look up from our phones and take in the ...
Do You Trust the U.S. Government with Your Private Information? Why?
In Phones, Fashion, and Fighting for Fourth Amendment Protections, I wrote about how recent figures in American ...
Phones, Fashion, and Fighting for Fourth Amendment Protections
Cornell University in Ithaca currently has an exhibit – “Fashioning Justice: Ruth Bader Ginsburg ’54 and the Power ...
Brooks on Books: When the Chips are Down
In 1999, while in business school, I interned with the National Parks and Conservation Association (NPCA) at Point ...
Consistency Produces Results, Good and Bad
Daily Habits and Practice
As a second grader in Cockeysville, Maryland, I came home from school nursing a bruised ...
Brooks Writes Stories: How Did It Go in 2025?
Happy New Year. Since 2017, I have submitted and tracked my fiction writing, and posted annual updates (here are ...
Life on Earth is Complex: Conversations with a Friend
Introduction
My late friend Danny Hamsley once told me, “The web of life on Earth is complex.” Danny and I often ...
Clear Priorities and Weekly Plans: Shake and Bake!
Introduction
I have been thinking about processes, habits, and routines after, once again, incinerating hours of ...
Feeding Chickens with Filmmaker Loren Mendell
Years ago, my younger brother, Loren, and I traveled to Uruguay to study Spanish and eat grilled meat. Our return ...
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