"A Drug Called Tradition" is one of the stories in the collection of short stories The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, written by Spokane-Coeur d'Alene-American novelist, short-story writer, and poet Sherman Joseph Alexie Jr....
Disruptive Innovations are so difficult for established companies to pursue because there is no money in them. However, the opportunity might be big enough for a small company and then as the technology improves, you have the “Next Big Thing.” It can’t make money in the conventional way:...
Another salient point is how much we are influenced by people we don’t even know. The fact that we are biased by the views and behaviors of our friends’ friends’ friends means that we are mostly unaware of where our ideas are coming from. It might seem far fetched, but spend some ...
but not without humility. Humility is probably the hardest part, and while it may seem a bit counter-intuitive, it is the key to making the “nice guy” way of life self serving. I may be nice guy for purely selfish
Jumps races upgraded as part of Pattern review It is at about this time during every Flat season that three-year-olds begin to blossom in all-age handicaps owing to the favourable weight-for-age allowance. In-form Tonto's ready to run riot from the front NEWMARKET RATINGS RP Rating is th...
Bill Gates and other leaders from the IT industry have testified about this before Congress. Both major political parties embrace the H-1B program with varying levels of enthusiasm. But Bill Gates is wrong. What he said to Congress may have been right for Microsoft but was wrong for Ameri...
Yet most of all, it’s important to remember that we’re just at the beginning of it all.Modern social network theoryis just a decade old, social media is considerably younger and the real effort to integrate it all is just beginning. ...
is often more of a personalized manifestation of the zeitgeist than it is the product of any real insight or reflection. AsRichard Feynmanput it, “The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool. So you have to be very careful about that....
You would think that we would want to build on this legacy, but the opposite seems to be true. In fact, there is averitable war on science, with politicians eagerly pandering byquestioning the age of the earth,crusading to cut scientific budgetsand calling evolution and the Big Banglies fro...
What’s important to understand about Google flu trends is that, from a conventional perspective, it doesn’t make a whole lot of sense. No symptoms are checked. No one with medical training is evaluating the data. The service identifies correlation, not causation. In other words, this isn’...