“The More I Find Out, The Less I Know”
The Job of the CEO
In a 4-person startup, the CEO’s job includes cleaning up the nasty mess in the fridge.
That Wonderful November Weather!
I’ve been stacking firewood to get ready for the new wood stove.
Why I Love America
In America, a completely ordinary person can do an extraordinary thing and we will honor her on the same level as our greatest leaders.
Carbon-Free Lifestyle
It might soon be possible to live a lifestyle where your daily activities don’t put any net carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
Well, is it hard or not?
Either something is a tremendous feat on the cutting edge of science, or it’s easy to do by guys living in a cave in Afghanistan. It can’t be both at once.
Power From the Gulf
Would it be possible to harness the energy of warm water in the Gulf of Mexico to generate power?
Sneaky Mail
If marketers can try to fool you into opening junk mail by disguising it as important legal communications, why can’t the opposite idea also work?
The Economics of Firewood
Here in suburbia, firewood is mostly a waste product that’s expensive and labor-intensive to move. That makes it one of those rare places where an ordinary person can effectively trade some time for significant cost savings.
Harnessing the Power of the Gulf of Mexico
There’s a lot of energy pent up in the warm water of the Gulf of Mexico. Anyone got ideas on how to get it out?
Ray Kurzweil is a Very Smart Man Who Would Fail my Freshman Physics Class
Extrapolating an exponential growth curve into the future is very risky.
eBay Jumps the Shark
The price eBay paid for Skype has a whiff of the frothiest days of the dotcom bubble.