The first amendment is among the great inventions of history. "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or p...

A bug can cause a piece of software - or even a civilization - to crash. The new invention of the nation-state spread throughout the West du...

Bill Gates became the richest man in the world in 1995 for creating a platform (in the form of Word, Excel, Outlook, Project) that enabled k...

In 1968, this iconic shot of earth was broadcast by NASA. Inspired by this new perspective, earthlings quickly organized themselves differen...

The middle-class shrunk between 1967 and 2016. And that's a good thing. The middle-class, lower middle-class and poor made up 94% of the...

100 years ago today women gained the right to vote in national elections. Two points about that. One, product and social invention are often...

The last time I was on Google's campus, I was training 7 project managers. At one point it came out that 6 of the 7 had gone to Saturday...

A curious thing happened through the course of the 20th century: companies shifted their focus from making things to making money. This may ...

In the early 1900s, labor followed capital. Specifically, workers came off of the farm to work in factories. By the late 1900s, capital foll...

I've read a ton of history and it has made me think that I know something about the dominoes that fall across a generation. Even history...

Political turmoil always comes with economic progress because identity and the work we do is so intertwined. I think that one of the tricks ...

In a time of crisis, everything is questioned. That makes sense but the West has made progress in certain ways that should never be undone. ...

Robert Wright's Nonzero forms one of the foundations to my worldview. The other day he interviewed Kat Rosenfield and Phoebe Maltz Bovy ...

From about 1830 to about 1900, the Democratic party was all madness and defense of the agricultural economy and the Republicans were the pro...

In 1642, Galileo died and Newton was born. That's still a poignant symbol of the hand off from Italy to Britain for progress. In 1500,...

When it comes to politics, there are a lot of people who believe that the truth lies somewhere in the middle and that if only we listened to...

The women's soccer team is fighting for equal pay. A conservative friend thinks this is silly. It's a curious thing. This friend i...

It seems a requirement of modern politics that Democrats criticize big business and Republicans criticize big government. There is one...

File under: things that mostly just fascinate me but really do affect everyone: "$20 trillion of the $55 trillion in global sovereign ...

In late January of 2009, I got a call from mom. Dad was in ER. About 90 minutes later, after midnight, I got up there. I was chatting wi...