In Hacking Darwin , Jamie Metzl writes that, "A BBC poll estimated that around half of all South Korean women in their twenties have ha...

Studying flow - the psychology of engagement - decades ago, it occurred to me that the ultimate profitable business would be one that design...

Each month bls.gov releases the new jobs numbers. "The economy created 130,000 jobs last month." The technical title for this jobs...

I went on a business trip with my wife Friday. She calls them field trips. She teaches 2nd grade and Wednesday her 7 and 8 year olds reached...

Mary Meeker delivered her annual Internet report Sunday . One of the points she made was about gaming. Entrepreneurs are often fans of ga...

The UK will elect its next prime minister in just a few weeks, on 7 May. As an American, I envy the fact that British politics is so mu...

The final estimate is that the GDP grew by 4.6% in the 2nd Quarter of this year, according to today's report from the Department of Com...

I had come to my favorite deli to dine with my octogenarian friend Bernard. He had his 20-something grandnephew Delbert with him. My initial...

How could you not adore this bright eyed inventor?

The economy is in the best position it's been for all of this century. Households have paid down debt and increased wealth, now positi...

People have been fired. Mike Huckabee predicts that Obama won't complete his second term. At a minimum, Bloomberg Businessweek predicts,...

We can continue to try repairing the old economy or we can create a new one. Financial crises, stagnant wages, persistently high une...

I wouldn't mind having this job: This is from the mind of the late, great Kurt Vonnegut.

Apparently it is as hard to predict history as it is to predict the future. History is a story we tell about the past to make sense of it to...

It was hard to know exactly when futures markets had begun to drive commodities prices. Oil, obviously, was one place where speculations on ...

The popularity of shopping depended on the ancient urge for the modern, that old wish for something new. No one had considered the possibili...

I suspect that in the future, work teams will increasingly be coordinating their activities through the Internet and be less reliant on comp...

“The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to ke...

On a flight home the other day, I put down my book (Michael Connely's Scarecrow) about an investigative reporter losing his job to watch...

"What is the soup du jour?" "That's the soup of the day." "Oh, that sounds good. I'll have that." On t...