Last quarter, GM lost about $39 billion. It wouldn't take too many quarters like that before I was forced to borrow money from friends. ...

Norman Mailer, like all great writers, refused the banal generalities used to caricature rather than characterize people and events, unafrai...

Tim Harford, the Undercover Economist, has an interesting posting about the difference in efficiencies between markets and elections. It is ...

It’s popular to point out that we’re in an information economy. Popular but a little dated. By 1900, we had universities producing knowledge...

The amount of joy you get from a scoop of ice cream depends on lots of things. One big determinant of how much joy you get from it is how mu...

Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili drew an angry response from Russia on Thursday and faced growing censure from supporters in the West ...

"In Vegas, I got into a long argument with the man at the roulette wheel over what I considered to be an odd number." - Steven Wri...

Ron Paul raised $4 million in one day, breaking Mitt Romney’s one day record for fundraising. If he’s unable to win the election, he plans t...

I'm suffering from outrage fatigue. After nearly seven years of George, mine seems to be a common condition. The presidential election i...

The Change in Thinking video really was a foundation for a larger claim about a new economy, a new society. But to the extent that it stood ...

In 1994, I made a video I titled A Change in Thinking. It was my attempt to argue that we need a change in thinking in order to move into a ...

Once people change their thinking, all other changes follow. In this segment, I compare the philosophy of Rene Descartes and Adam Smith - ma...

Intellectual capital is to this economy what industrial capital was to the industrial revolution. Yet it is not enough just to teach rules. ...

The difference between education and training? You'd send your daughter to a sex education class, but not a sex training class. To creat...

This Monty Hall Paradox is counter-intuitive. You're likely to win money betting on it with friends, a win-win because it'll teach t...

In this segment, I focus on the defining characteristic of systems - what emerges from their interaction. Analysis ignores this and in the p...

In this final chapter, I simply declare that just as it would be good for a person living in Itay to speak Italian, so it would be good for ...

I'm proud to be American, kind of. I'm proud to be a Davison, kind of. I'm proud to be a Californian, kind of. But my being an A...

I have a new vice - reading the Overhead in ... blogs. Brilliant. It is like found comedy - or is that commentary? Here are some of my favor...

Last night I went to the Lakers home opener against the Houston Rockets. My buddy Daryl's first regular season game as the GM of the Hou...