by Tom | Oct 9, 2012 | Business, Government, Reading
You think about how much value Tim Berners-Lee created and how he didnt actually capture very much of it. It was captured by companies like Google, Apple, Twitter, and Facebook. You also think about the other extreme, where companies like Goldman Sachs managed to...
by Tom | Oct 4, 2012 | Hong Kong / China, Reading
This is an interesting idea for Hong Kong. I wonder how many acres of roof space / effective growing space there would be in the city? We definitely don’t use our roofs enough, and there almost certainly would demand for the output. Fearing Tainted Imports, Hong...
by Tom | Sep 18, 2012 | Reading, Science
Moondoggle: The Forgotten Opposition to the Apollo Program shows that the public was not so keen on the moon landings in the 1960s. The amount of money spent in constant dollars is shocking, and the modern move to drones and robotic devices does suggest that we need...
by Tom | Sep 18, 2012 | Business, Reading
Much as I am against the cult of the CEO, there is a lot of interest in McK’s series Leading in the 21st century. The themes that resonated for me were: The need to build corporate resilience (or its flip side, pragmatism, e.g. in getting Indian companies...
by Tom | Sep 18, 2012 | Government, Reading
Fabulous quote from Rick Santorum: We will never have the elite, smart people on our side. Two contrasting essays which are well worth reading: Michael Lewis with Obama. How the Romney campaign stumbled. Also interesting is Obama’s sword shaking at China, which...
by Tom | Sep 10, 2012 | Reading, Science
How culture drove human evolution argues for the removal of the distinction between biological and cultural evolution. Example (possibly poor) precis: Humans are thought to have caught animals by tracking them over long periods of time and gradually exhausting them,...
