check's in the mail

Last year Dr. Atul Gawande wrote an article for the New Yorker about cost variances in health care in McAllen, Texas. Warren Buffet's business partner, Charlie Munger, liked it--a lot. Enough, in fact, to act upon it.

"[Gawande] had an article last summer that was absolutely magnificent," Buffett said on CNBC's "Squawk Box" Monday morning. "My partner Charlie Munger sat down and wrote out a check for $20,000 to him and he's never met him, never had any correspondence with it, he just mailed it to the New Yorker and he said, `This article is so useful socially.' He says, `Just give this as a gift to the--to Dr. Gawande.'" (via HuffPo.)

Gawande says he donated the money to charity. This is a good news piece, in that it shows that writing can still move some people to act. I'm not considering any other aspects of this, however many there may be. Call me stubborn. I don't care. We need the good news.