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Better Conversations Require Better Information

How to Have A Better Conversation About Politics

2 min readDec 8, 2022

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Better Conversations Require Better Information

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Jim Carroll

Could Competence Be A Quality That We All Want In Politicians?

We don’t know what competence means for a legislator. And it would likely be helpful as we try and revive democracy and democratic norms in…

5 min readJan 27, 2022

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Could Competence Be A Quality That We All Want In Politicians?

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Jim Carroll

Uncertainty…Work, Life, Balance

The pandemic is proving a chance to mirror personal decision making with public policy decision making.

5 min readAug 17, 2021

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Uncertainty…Work, Life, Balance

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Jim Carroll

We need a Pro-Democracy Vortex

Building on the Green Vortex[1] metaphor Robinson Meyer used to describe how the US has met many of the unadopted 2009 climate change…

2 min readJun 18, 2021

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We need a Pro-Democracy Vortex

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Jim Carroll

Better Problem Framing Could Lead to Better Solutions: Responding to George Packer in The Atlantic…

The value in problem framing comes from helping to find new solutions to a problem. Trying to find a solution to the US political conundrum…

3 min readJun 11, 2021

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Better Problem Framing Could Lead to Better Solutions: Responding to George Packer in The Atlantic…

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Jim Carroll

BS is the basis of so much of the info we see everyday.

I think his work would help here:

1 min readJun 6, 2021

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Jim Carroll

Governing Matters Deeply, Focusing on Competency Could Improve It.

The reason we care deeply, maybe excessively, about politics is valid; Governing really matters right now. Yet the way we express how much…

4 min readMar 12, 2021

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Governing Matters Deeply, Focusing on Competency Could Improve It.

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Jim Carroll

The Time Has Come for Never Trump Republicans to Leave the Republican Party

Two-party democracy doesn’t work when one party doesn’t support democracy

2 min readJan 4, 2021

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The Time Has Come for Never Trump Republicans to Leave the Republican Party

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Jim Carroll

What is an Adequate Response to Republican Anti-Democracy?

It depends, as someone with no power joining protests is really about all we have access to. Yet it is pretty clear from history that…

3 min readDec 21, 2020

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What is an Adequate Response to Republican Anti-Democracy?

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Jim Carroll

We Need a Gang of Six

Our politics is dysfunctional, we are too polarized as a nation to have functional government, and Democracy is broken; all the headlines…

2 min readDec 6, 2020

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We Need a Gang of Six

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Jim Carroll

Jim Carroll

chemist, college teacher, VP for pharma consulting, director of operations and a social purpose corp founder; searching for ways to improve our world & poltics

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