I'm really looking forward to your content! I am mainly familiar with your work in tobacco harm reduction, but agree with pretty much everything else you said here. I've always had libertarian leanings and that has only been reinforced by seeing how much can go wrong with policy.
Marc: I am also flunking retirement, so I can relate. I appreciate your thoughtful efforts to look more deeply into ways to respond to our current govermental mess. Standard conservative and liberal approaches have not yielded great results.
Hi Marc. I loved the drawing. Oh, and by the way Happy Birthday. I've been retired for 9 years now, and I'm still trying to figure out what I want to do. I think labeling yourself a Libertarian might be a mistake, but who knows? Oh, and I'll take the real post office over Amazon every time. Bob Friend
Congratulations on your new venture, Marc! Humility these days seems like a wise strategy for just about all of us. Looking forward to reading your latest. I am not that familiar with your body of work but, as you may know, if you ever choose to articulate the unique value of the game of baseball in the year 2026, I will especially read with interest. And, if you post some of your previous work in your archive that would motivate me to go back and learn more.
You're welcome, and you may not have noticed that I am donating half of any revenues from this Substack to GiveDirectly. I hope to reconnect with Paul Niehaus to write about your work soon.
I'm really looking forward to your content! I am mainly familiar with your work in tobacco harm reduction, but agree with pretty much everything else you said here. I've always had libertarian leanings and that has only been reinforced by seeing how much can go wrong with policy.
Marc: I am also flunking retirement, so I can relate. I appreciate your thoughtful efforts to look more deeply into ways to respond to our current govermental mess. Standard conservative and liberal approaches have not yielded great results.
Hi Marc. I loved the drawing. Oh, and by the way Happy Birthday. I've been retired for 9 years now, and I'm still trying to figure out what I want to do. I think labeling yourself a Libertarian might be a mistake, but who knows? Oh, and I'll take the real post office over Amazon every time. Bob Friend
Congratulations on your new venture, Marc! Humility these days seems like a wise strategy for just about all of us. Looking forward to reading your latest. I am not that familiar with your body of work but, as you may know, if you ever choose to articulate the unique value of the game of baseball in the year 2026, I will especially read with interest. And, if you post some of your previous work in your archive that would motivate me to go back and learn more.
What a good start. You lay the groundwork for some deep topics. I think I can learn a few things about libertarian tenets here. Good luck.
Thanks for the shoutout! Excited to see you on Substack, Mark.
You're welcome, and you may not have noticed that I am donating half of any revenues from this Substack to GiveDirectly. I hope to reconnect with Paul Niehaus to write about your work soon.