At Least The Blue Screen of Death was decisive.I woke up today in a great mood, ready to hit the ground running and get in 8-10 hours of writing.  However, now that it is the late afternoon and I can finally use my computer again after hours of tinkering with spyware programs, virus software and internet settings to overcome the 21-car pileup that greeted me when I turned my computer on this morning, there is a lot less wind in my sails.  I run both an anti-Spyware program and an anti-viral program, both of which I had to purchase through a third party.  Yet these programs function far enough away from the central aspects of my operating system that I'm constantly having to peel away the bugs that splatters on my windshield as I drive on the information superhighway.

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Joe is a graduate of Duke University who has been described variously as an “internet addict,” a “nerd” and a “smooth player, who is only understood by his momma.”  While his politics are slightly left of center, he values heterodoxy and always attempts to deconstruct why he believes things through metacognition and a broad reading list.  His firm conviction is that conventional wisdom is frequently wrong, and many revolutionary ideas of today are the pragmatic solutions of the future.

He founded The Inductive hoping that by getting the interesting people he knows, if not always agree with, to write here he can push the limits of what is usually connected with public policy and kill some sacred cows.  Because if you’ve never had sacred cow, its divine with béarnaise.