By Dave Kung Change is hard, especially for us humans. As much as we want to believe that we evaluate options on their merits, the truth is that we are deeply conservative (small “c”), regularly defaulting to the status quo. Change at scale is even harder. Policy experts posit that real tectonic plate shifts require...

By David Bressoud @dbressoud As of 2024, new Launchings columns appear on the third Tuesday of the month. FDWK refers to Ross Finney, Frank Demana, Bert Waits, and Dan Kennedy, the team of authors who for many years and multiple editions updated Calculus: Graphical, Numerical, Algebraic, one of the most popular textbooks for the College Board’s...