Is recycling worth it?

It’ll be interesting to see whether the economics have changed in the 10 years since this article was published. It essentially says that pay-to-throw is more sensible (for the environment and for business) than mandated recycling.

Hagel on the Gap

Thinking about the split of businesses into 1) infrastructure, 2) innovation, 3) customer, the Gap used to be seen as more than one. It probably shouldn’t be in that game according to Hagel.

Home composter

While the council comes and gets all our kitchen waste, it seems a good plan to have your own composter in the garden. Here’s one that looks like it might work. Depends on how much sunshine it needs – we’ve hardly seen any for weeks.

Discrimination

Scott Adams on discrimination. Exam question: why is it legal to discriminate against stupid people? Precis: how would they form a pressure group?

Futures

Lots of good stuff from a DTI-sponsored futures initiative. Sigma scan and Delta scan – they’re very similar, but the delta is more focused on technology. They only mention the singularity once, for what that’s worth.

Zubka

Zubka is user-generated head hunting. An interesting prospect.