These ideas are still fresh (which is another way of saying that they are unfinished), so take with a grain of salt.
Apparently there’s gold rush over there in India and China. They want stuff, lots of stuff, and we only just have to sell it to them. Well not so fast there Tex. […]

Call me selfish, but I’ve never been a big fan of charity. I don’t mean things like giving time or money to help find a cure for cancer or to help the EFF to keep fighting for freedom. I’m happy to give a little to the EFF. I don’t like charity that’s […]

“The problem is not ignorance, it is preconveived ideas”
This is so worth watching on so many levels. TED had some good stuff, some not so good stuff, and some stuff that seemed good on the surface but in retrospect wasn’t that good.
This one, however, is great. Watch this for the content […]

Back in grad school I was one of Richard Florida’s students as he was discovering the connections and correlations between various metrics of diversity and economic productivity. His conclusion was diversity and social tolerance has a consistent measurable and predictable positive economic effect. In other words, diversity pays.
He goes on to point out how […]

I do a lot of work with scenarios as tools to help drive innovative thinking. I don’t use them to forecast the future—forecasting is impossible. I do use them to explore many plausible futures, none of which actually come true, but some unforeseeable amalgam usually does.
I start with STEP factors (social, […]

Supply side economics, a term coined by Jude Winniski, is a macro-economic perspective that (and forgive my gross oversimplification) revives a Frankenstien version of classical economics together with Say’s law. Classical economics is the period and school of economic thought ushered in the 18th century by Adam Smith in part as a rebuttal against […]