Every historical era has a very small number of writers who seem to be in exactly the right place at the right time with exactly the right things to say. Think Kerouac and Kesey. Emerson, James (William or Henry) and Oliver Wendell Holmes. Dickens. These are great writers, to be sure — but even more than that [...]
Marshall Goldsmith is really a terrific coach. In the following exercise, he uses a very effective technique to help people overcome resistance to change. Kudos, as always, to Marshall.
One of the things I’ve seen great leaders do is find value from adversity. This can be as easy as efforts to learn from organizational or personal failures and as hard as attempts to make even life’s most harrowing and seemingly unbearable events redeeming and fundamentally _worth_ something. For the bravest of individuals, this doesn’t [...]
this I/O technology fills me full of real joy. I can’t wait for the commercial applications. This and this chart offer a very good comparative overview of the market. Krugman being right — again! Very sad news from CR — Tanta has passed away.
I was watching Wall-E with my older boy a few days ago and had an odd realization: the basic plot of the movie would never make sense to him. The movie, for those of you who haven’t seen it, is about a trash collecting robot left behind on a barren and waste-filled earth after all of the humans have [...]
