Posts by john glaser
Ranking sports
Like most people on the planet, I am watching the World Cup soccer games.
I find myself engaged in watching games such as ...
Celebrating 250 years
The US is celebrating its 250th birthday. While the country has many challenges and can behave in ways that are appalling, it has becom...
Toasting a wedding
As you know, Father’s Day was last weekend.
On that day, I thought about of one of the truly special moments of being a fa...
Taking vacation
Several years ago, while a CIO at Partners HealthCare, I wrote the email below to the information systems (IS) staff. While I am no lon...
Evolving the brain
Our brains are the result of evolution that has occurred over hundreds of millions of years.
The earliest vertebrates (500 plus...
Measuring happiness
On the occasion of my recent birthday, a friend asked me, “If you could go back to being 20 years old, or 40 years old, wou...
A family coat of arms
For reasons that are not clear to me, I decided that the Glaser family needed an official coat of arms. After all, we are a high-class ...
The greatest sentence ever written
Walter Isaacson, in his new book entitled The Greatest Sentence ever Written, argues that the greatest sentence is:
We hold these tr...
Developing health care leaders
The Harvard Medical School Executive Education offers the Global Health Care Leaders Program. The program is designed to discuss curren...
Hunting ghosts
My wife Denise and I took a 3-hour tour/class in ghost hunting. Led by the gentleman who leads the Cape Cod Paranormal Research Society...