David Chapman

Oct 8, 2024 | bcmj.org | David Chapman

Our hospital’s physician wellness committee is constantly looking for ways to promote and improve the wellness of our physician group. One of our recent projects was to resurrect the tradition of recognizing physicians for their contributions to health care in our community and their lengths of service (a good number of our physicians have given 30 to 37 years; I’ve been there for 31).

Apr 15, 2024 | forbes.com | David Chapman

David Chapman is COB of 919 Marketing, a national content marketing firm with a track record of turning emerging brands into market leaders. I started my franchise marketing services agency in 1996. Today, it's a nationally acclaimed agency. Like many other franchise brands, I explored partnering with private equity groups to accelerate our growth, and of course to also extract some of the value built through the years. The process was exciting, challenging and all-consuming.

Dec 6, 2023 | lesswrong.com | Steven Byrnes |Ben Pace |David Chapman

I talk with Alkjash about valuing original thinking vs getting things right. We discuss a few main threads:What are the benefits of epistemic specialisation? What about generalism? How much of the action in an actual human mind is in tweaking your distribution over hypotheses and how much over making sure you're considering good hypotheses?

Nov 1, 2023 | goldseek.com | David Haggith |Ira Epstein |Chris Waltzek |David Chapman

Faced with growing American frustration over more than $100 billion spent on a failed proxy war in Ukraine, President Biden’s handlers have hit on a gimmick to convince us that this foreign aid is actually an investment in our own economy! In his recent television address, Biden explained that as we transfer more weapons to Ukraine we then will build new weapons at home to replace them. That, explained Biden, means more American jobs and a stronger American economy.

Oct 30, 2023 | goldseek.com | David Haggith |Ira Epstein |Chris Waltzek |David Chapman

Much of the M&A focus in 2022 was on Canada. In Q3 alone, there were a total of $562.8 million worth, including Kinross Gold acquiring Great Bear Resources for $1.44 billion. Agnico-Eagle and Kirkland Lake Gold completed a $10B merger to become the third-largest gold producer in the world. Source: White & Case Newmont’s $19.2 billion acquisition of Newcrest was the headline of 2023, cementing its status as the world’s largest gold producer. But it wasn’t the only multi-billion-dollar deal.