Nike Doesn’t Learn From Past Mistakes Nike’s initial mistake of creating a fire design on the back of one of their shoes that resembled the Arabic word for “Allah” back in 1997 was understandable. It seemed, and almost definitely was, an honest mistake. However,making that same exact ...
World War I provided a new opportunity to utilize the newly-created powers of central banking through the Federal Reserve System, even prior to official US entry into the war. The Federal Reserve—doubling the money supplyduring WWI (1914-1919) and creating a boom-bust cycle in the depression...
If you’re not familiar, Papers, Please puts you in the shoes of a border crossing official in the newly independent post-Soviet (although the game is set in a purely fictional universe) state of Arstotzka. You sit in your booth in the middle of the border and are tasked with checking ...
It’s just a metal detector…. it’s just taking off your shoes… it’s just wearing a mask…. it’s just a vaccination….. it’s just a COVID passport… it’s always, “just”. He adds something that I believe is perhaps the key: Factuall...
The conduct of government affairs is as different from the industrial processes as is prosecuting, convicting, and sentencing a murderer from the growing of corn or the manufacturing of shoes. Government efficiency and industrial efficiency are entirely different things. A factory’s management cannot ...