END OF JANUARY - that's my mantra. By the end of next week I will have a draft of my dissertation to my dissertation chair. I'm working on it now - late at work every night.

Over the holidays I read _The Mystery of Capital_ by Hernando de Soto. Great book. Sometime, in a future blog, I need to follow the thought process I went through while reading the book. I think de Soto will be up for a Nobel in 25 years.

I work for a large manufacutring company (I'll call it MWM). In this company I've been engaged for the past several years developing "learning applications." Once I get the dissertation finished (END OF JANUARY) I'll start writing more about my experience.

Just a teaser... the first article will be titled something like, "Knowledge Management gets sued" or "Why corporations seem to forget everything they know". MWM just implemented a progrom (I mean program) to ensure that it can forget everything it knew should the need arise (read: lawsuit). Developing a learning application in such an environment is really interesting (read: how do you share knowledge when you have to be ready to flush everything at a moment's notice).

Organizations know how to share knowledge. There are plenty of technologies available. What they don't know how to do is share and forget. More later.

What I'm reading (er, well, listening)...

I just finished Bias by Bernard Goldberg. I know, it's been out for a few years - it just hit my library on tape. It's nice to have a liberal from inside the camp explain the reason why I can't watch the Evening News.

Thanks to books on tape, I don't much have to listen to Mitch Albom on the drive home. However, when I do, I'll now know to listen for him say something like, "And now we have with us |name here| from the left wing |name here| institute." Don't worry, I'm not holding my breath.

Go Bernard.

What I'm reading...

BYU's Kennedy Center just published a talk by Dinesh D'Souza - delivered 19 Sep. 2002. The title is "What's So Great About America?" Dinesh briefly introduces different opinions other people have about the US - leading to an Islamic perspective. He talks about America's foreign policy of supporting the lesser evil. He concludes with a response to the Islamic view he presented - What's so great about America.

Good read. A video presentation is available at http://kennedy.byu.edu/events. Unfortunately, there isn't a text version available right now.

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