I once gave a friend advice about her hair length by explaining the economics concept of point of diminishing returns. I’ve been known to compare photography with calculus (points on a curve) and make Venn diagrams of my conflicts of interest.

Recently I’ve been reading “Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed” by Jared Diamond, and I keep thinking about the newspaper industry and the lessons we can learn from the Vikings and the Mayans.

This is just a sneak preview. I’ve only halfway through the book and it will take me a while to organize my thoughts on the whole thing into something useful. But it may be wonderful.