If I tell you the wine is expensive, you´ll believe me

If perception is everything, and people enjoy wine they are told is expensive, can wine be given a price other than derived from scarcity? Amusing thought: you get standard house wine, but are charged as much as you can bear to part with to be told you are getting...

Place and talent clusters

Place (this is a slightly undefined concept in the UK, but I see it as focusing on the physical nature of "something´s" location) still matters to the US IT industry. As Hagel muses, isn´t  it interesting that one of the most technologically...

Magazine binding strips

Hurrah! I have been searching for little plastic strips that allow you to hold sheet music in ring binders (so you can have all of your music in one place and not drop it when you move your folder). I had no idea what they were called, but finally worked out the right...

We´ll be consuming less

Jared Diamond makes an interesting challenge: the world can´t support current developed world consumption levels; we are promising the developing world that free trade will give them developed world lifestyles; these are in conflict. So we have to get to a place...