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If the title of your biography is "The Difference Between God and [You]" (Larry Ellison in this case), then obviously you are a j...

Essay : "Why are software-based companies taking over the world? The answer is simply that powering companies by software allows them...

"Amish lives are anything but anti-technological. In fact on my several visits with them, I have found them to be ingenious hackers an...

Great story about Toyota : "[T]oyota was similarly extreme in how it exercised kaizen and things like root cause analysis. If an oil ...

This study on the effects of accounting conservatism is worth thinking about: "tracked more than 70,000 publicly traded U.S. compani...

Locklin : "The third and final lesson I’ll take from the development of SAGE: break down the problem into manageable pieces, and solv...

Paper Analysis of the mid-Victorian period in the U.K. reveals that life expectancy at age 5 was as good or better than exists today, and...

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One technological development I'm watching for is the driverless car. This great WSJ article summarizes the possibilities that they off...

This is from Jared Diamond's essay about the idea that agriculture was a mistake. But this quote is hilarious: "[T]he average tim...

"[N]ew technology is threatening to put New York's growing subclass of mercenary drudge work lawyers out to pasture. The Southern D...

This is an interesting article . Big data! In 1942, when my father was born, the average dairy cow produced less than 5,000 pounds of milk ...