Disagree and commit

Tough decisions, a few-years-old shareholder letter, and 7 other things worth your time.

Let me know if this sounds familiar: I find it’s harder to make decisions lately, simply because there’s so much more uncertainty than I’d usually want to deal with.

Case in point: Our daughter’s public school district announced recently that we’ll be starting the year next month with a 100 percent virtual program.

I don’t object to that, per se. I mean, there’s a global pandemic, you might have heard.

But, at the same time, they aren’t sharing any information whatsoever about when they might hope to try in-person instruction—even with the caveat that it would be a best-case scenario, subject to change, etc.

You tell me: What do we do with that?

Do we go along and start the school year five days a week in front of a computer in our spare room?

Do we tighten our belts and pony up for private school tuition for a year, knowing that the public schools might open for in-person or hybrid in a month or two (who knows?)—or else that the private school might itself soon decide that they’ve made…