Revisiting Dan Price’s Social Experiment
Dan Price was the man who gave up his one million salary so his employees could have a living wage of at least $70K Now it’s 3 years later. How is Dan’s company doing?
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Smart Cities Part 2
I finally finished The Smartest Places on Earth by Antoine van Agtmal. My overall impression is that in areas that used to have a large manufacturing base, they are starting to revive by moving up the skills ladder: medical, biotechnology, materials science, technology, etc; hence the name smart cities. The revival is also heavily predicated…
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Mark Cuban: the one skill you need
According to Mark Cuban, the one skill you will need in ten years after the artificial intelligence invasion has begun is creativity. Just one. Not a list of skills but just one. And he has pooh-poohed the coding skills because software will be able to code itself. Think about that: he’s discounting all other skills…
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Did Shareholders Develop a Conscience?
Last week Facebook’s stock nosedived by more than $100 billion and now shareholders want Mark Zuckerberg out due to his mishandling of crises that have been popping up over the last year. Do shareholders now have a social conscience? Um, no. Did the shareholders care about the election meddling when we all learned that the…
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When Code Breaks
Revising a code is way different from creating a code from scratch. My company switched over to a new payroll vendor and the new vendor’s data file is almost – but not quite – the same as the old data layout, but it is that tiny little variance that broke the code. Most of the…
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Smart Cities – Part 1
“Brainbelts, places where close collaboration among universities, start-ups, and legacy businesses had put them at the forefront of innovation, revived economic activity, and brought boarded up downtowns back to live. Contrary to popular perception, Democrats didn’t “lose” the entire rustbelt, just those areas that made little effort or were unable to reform and revitalize their…
