Biden is making sweeping proposals for dealing with climate change. One element of his proposal is to make the federal government a big cons...

The oughts - the decade from 2000 to 2009 - were awful. After having created 18 to 22 million jobs per decade in the last three decades of t...

Venture capitalists offer knowledge, connections and - of course - capital.  The initial American model for venture capital was whaling. The...

In his inaugural speech, Joe Biden referred to "this uncivil war." One of the weirdest things about today's conflict is the ro...

I was in Hanoi in the 1990s as part of a group that put together a trade show featuring American companies. I was told that it was the first...

To say that we've moved from an agricultural to industrial or industrial to information economy is not to say that we didn't still h...

Watching the folks who stormed the capitol stand before the Senate floor and denounce communists and globalists in early January I thought, ...

A really good worldview is nearly invisible to us. We look through glasses, not at them. A worldview that a community has adopted is similar...

The simplest expression of zero sum thinking is "There is only so much." From its founding until the rise of Abraham Lincoln and t...

Biden is the first president from Delaware. I had a client there and had to fly into Philadelphia, Pennsylvania or Baltimore, Maryland and t...

I was working with a team in Silicon Valley that was developing a surgical robot in 2016. As is typical of teams full of specialists, it had...

44 men have been president. 27 of them had died before they reached Joe Biden's age. **** The country has had four baby boomers in a row...

In 1754, Rousseau wrote of the French, "You aren't so rich that you have become numb to true happiness because of the distractions ...

Working online from home? John Davison Rockefeller installed a telegraph line between his office and home when he was in his 30s (in 1870s)....

Persian new year is the first day of Spring. For 2021, it will seem like the Persians have it right. Currently, we're losing about 3,000...

One simple difference between a functional and dysfunctional society is how effectively it raises children to be productive adults. You have...

Kamala Harris will represent so many firsts when she’s sworn in next week as Vice President. First woman. First Asian. First Black. She will...

It makes perfect sense that you would refuse to marry a guy who acts like a two-year old. It makes no sense that you would refuse to marry a...

In his inaugural address, John Kennedy used the line, "those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside...

More us and less them. Even before tribes there were bands, very small groups of people who banded together for survival and companionship. ...