From there, the logical next step was to join an investment bank in June 2008, two months before Lehman Brothers went bankrupt. After riding that wave, I co-founded a tech startup in 2012. I don’t have the perspective to weigh in on whether there’s a “startup bubble,” or even ...
But on the flip side, it also means we’re no closer to pushing beyond the Standard Model and into the realm of the unknown. One of the big shortfalls of the Standard Model is that it doesn’t account for gravity, dark energy and dark matter, and some other quirks that are essential...
the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain or in the petals of a flower. To think otherwise is to demean the Buddha—which is to demean oneself. —Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance The publication in 1974 of Robert Pirsig's ...
We, who, as men vivisected our nonhuman sisters and brothers, were being burned at the stake, pathologized, and lobotomized by those same exact men? What about those of us, largely people of color, who have been dissected by scientists right alongside nonhuman animals, who have been literal...
Here’s how we test products and why you should trust us. Hugh Jackman is extremely willing to commit to the bit. This is, perhaps, not entirely surprising when you’re talking about an A-list actor and singer with a multi-decade career spanning everything from superhero movies to ...
in 1890 the company formed a department devoted exclusively to advertising and to publicizing Sherwin-Williams and its products. George Ford was hired to head the department. A year later, a sales agency was opened in Worcester, Massachusetts, which was the model for the company's successful con...
In addition, rather than following the Fordist model of keeping the assembly line moving at all costs (and then repairing botched products later on during quality-control inspection), Deming's system allowed any worker to bring the entire line to a halt at any time upon noticing any defect ...