Systems realities emerge out of interaction. To understand them, you don't look to the parts but rather the interaction between those p...

The Dow closed above 17,000 for the week. In the 1999 bull market, it peaked at about 11,500 and in the pre-Great Recession market of 2007, ...

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...

The US Conference of Mayors just released a report that includes this table: Richard Florida uses this as another example of the incr...

On this day, in 1942, movie star Hedy Lamarr patented spread spectrum communications and frequency hopping, a technology that is the basis ...

Steve Blank recently said , Corporate entrepreneurship and innovation will be the next big thing for the next 10 years, and the business...

"I can't believe that!" said Alice. "Can't you?" the Queen said in a pitying tone. "Try again: draw a long...

Pat Brown - current governor Jerry Brown's dad - was governor of California from 1959 to 1967. In 1960, he made California the first sta...

Huck Finn, the son of a drunken father, is himself described as idle and lawless. But he tries to flee this fate with Jim, a runaway slave. ...

In the medieval world, miracles were still common and religious symbolism was not symbolic.  Wilsnack is today a tiny town of about 2,000, ...

It had been too long since I’d seen Bernard, my invisible octogenarian friend. (Although he hates that I point this out about him, the fact...

If I wiped your memory clean you'd be gone. Assuming that it caused no brain damage and you were able to learn anew, you could conceivab...

July job numbers were up 209,000, less than the 230,000 folks were estimating. There are a few things of interest about this number. 1. Si...

John Oliver rather brilliantly explains American wealth and how it is compounded by the estate tax here . He misses one little point though,...

There has been some good economic news of late. And yet, Americans still don't have much confidence in the economy. This week we got som...

You've likely heard by now that GDP grew by 4% in the 2nd Quarter. Here are some other intriguing things about the Commerce Department...

Fascinating interview of Jung posted here at Maria Popova's brilliant site. Here are a few excerpts that stood out to me. JUNG:  ...

Correlation between CEO pay and company performance is weak. This chart from Eric Chemi and Ariana Giorgi plots CEO pay ranked from low t...

There is still not much evidence of systems thinking in education. Systems thinking lends itself to some fancy talk but really is just an ...

In 1899, a carpenter made about 50 cents an hour, so this payphone would have cost the equivalent of $22 a minute today.