Is the world getting less uptight?
So as I was warming up around Jarry Parc before my tempo run this morning, I noticed a couple bikes (actually a trike and a bike) leaning up against the tree where I usually do my warm-ups. I looked around the field for their owners. Sure enough, two small boys were conferencing near the cricket strip. No parents in sight. Just hanging out in the park. I did not know kids did that anymore, to be honest. Eventually two moms and a sister appeared, and the boys took to their bikes and tore off elsewhere in the park. So they were being monitored, good, but it wasn't like their parents were paranoid. Nice to see.
Labels: thought of the day
posted by JTL in MTL @ 5:45 p.m.
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2 Comments:
I'm pleased to see that you revived your blog. I am way behind. Sounds like the book you read on risk management was Freakonomics, funny I had summarized that book to myself as being about incentives and how with the right set of incentives people's actions can be manipulated to the desired endpoint but you're right there is a lot on risk management in there. People are afraid of the wrong things for sure. The other great example in that book was swimming pools versus guns in the home as causes of accidents in the toddler set (if indeed that was the book you were talking about). Anyway glad to see you are back.
Hey - my word verification is restlie ... awfully close to n=my name :)
Thanks! I have not read Freakonomics, but I do read his blog sometimes.
The book was actually called "Risk" by Dan Gardner. I found it a couple days ago as I unpacked all of my books.
http://www.amazon.ca/Risk-Science-Politics-Dan-Gardner/dp/0771032994
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