Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Game Plan Academy (GPA): Week One in the Books







Game Plan Academy (GPA) started well this past Sunday (see camp photo above).

GPA is a local effort by an awesome team of Sacramentans.

Here are links to the local press coverage pieces thus far:

"Game Plan Academy opens camp" by Jonathan Mendick


"GPA = Game Plan Academy" by Ron Hyde of Channel 13 News


I look forward to working with these students again this upcoming Sunday.

Also, in order to better understand the human condition in this Information Age, I created a Twitter account to observe this new social texture reflectively:

Twitter = epistemocrat

Friday, March 13, 2009

Power-Law Distribution of World's Banks, Healthcare Spending, and Health Insurance Companies

The distribution of banks resembles the distribution of health insurance companies (power-law): a few companies dominate the majority of the market share. This is a non-stable, far from robust distribution: when the giants fall, the entire system collapses (as we just saw with our banking system). The same collapse is around the corner for health insurance companies; the exponential growth of healthcare spending is simply not sustainable -- at some point, the system is going to crack, the ripple effects will spread, and United, Aetna, Blue Cross, and others will all come crumbling down.