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“A very little key will open a very heavy door” (Charles Dickens, Hunted Down)
3 words to live by: Read, read, readI came across a piece about General Mattis that highlighted his discipline of reading. Here are some points:"Mattis was known to have had a personal library of over 7,000 books, and prompted the study of history for his troops...
3 words to live by: Read, read, readI came across a piece about General Mattis that highlighted his discipline of reading. Here are some points:"Mattis was known to have had a personal library of over 7,000 books, and prompted the study of history for his troops...
First Bitcoin ATM in Canada
Via Business Insider: The first Bitcoin ATM in the world is believed to launch in Canada next week. According to reports from CBC, Mitchell Demeter, co-founder of Vancouver bitcoin trading company Bitcoiniacs and part-owner of Robocoin, has invested in five such...
Twitter And The Real Economy Of Jobs
Via Newgeography.com: With Twitter’s high-profile IPO, the media and much of the pundit class are revisiting one of their favorite themes: the superiority of the brash, young urban tech elite, who don’t need to produce much in the way of profits to be showered with...
Twitter And The Real Economy Of Jobs
Via Newgeography.com: With Twitter’s high-profile IPO, the media and much of the pundit class are revisiting one of their favorite themes: the superiority of the brash, young urban tech elite, who don’t need to produce much in the way of profits to be showered with...
Gartner’s dark vision for tech, jobs
Via Instapundit and Network World: Science fiction writers have long told of great upheaval as machines replace people. Now, so is research firm Gartner. The difference is that Gartner, which provides technology advice to many of the world's largest companies, is...
Gartner’s dark vision for tech, jobs
Via Instapundit and Network World: Science fiction writers have long told of great upheaval as machines replace people. Now, so is research firm Gartner. The difference is that Gartner, which provides technology advice to many of the world's largest companies, is...
The Perils of Premature Deindustrialization
Via Instapundit, American Interest, and Project Syndicate: Most of today’s advanced economies became what they are by traveling the well-worn path of industrialization. A progression of manufacturing industries – textiles, steel, automobiles – emerged from the ashes...