First, do no harm 261 days ago Read More
The best way to keep your bank from getting robbed is to not open a bank.
Sometimes, in our zeal to avoid loss at all costs, we focus too hard on the false positives (that guy might be a robber) an...
Better? 261 days ago Read More
Are you better at what you do than you were a month or two ago?
A lot better?
How did you get better? What did you read or try? Did you fail at something and learn from it? Does that mindless stuff...
You're right! 262 days ago Read More
You probably get feedback from customers. Sometimes you even get letters.
Occasionally (unfortunately), it’s negative.
Two weeks ago, I left my car at (an expensive) parking garage in midtown New Y...
An NBA Fun Fact 263 days ago Read More
Is it possible for the shot clock to have more time on it than the game clock ?Those of you paying close attention to the Suns vs Spurs game might have noticed during the 2nd overtime, Ginobli grab...
AWS outgrows Amazon 262 days ago Read More
The new issue of Wired has a feature article on Amazon Web Services, the online retailer's computing utility. The article gives a sense of how rapidly the utility business, and its underlying infra...
Henry Ford and the source of our fear 263 days ago Read More
Henry Ford left us much more than cars and the highway system we built for them. He changed the world’s expectations for work. While Ford gets credit for “inventing the assembly line,” his great in...
Open source as corporate joint venture 263 days ago Read More
A new report from the Linux Foundation reveals the extent to which the most famous and successful open source software project - the development of the Linux operating system - has shifted from bei...