I had a conversation with a computer engineering professor about a week ago. He said he was skeptical about production chips getting smaller...

Fordism made previously expensive products affordable. The price of the Model T fell from $850 to $260 in 15 years. What used to be so expen...

Dee Hock died last year. He did in the 1960s what every crypto entrepreneur aspired to do this decade. He created a global systems for trans...

File under facts you won't hear because they aren't upsetting. Since 2Q 2011, the wealth held by Americans in the bottom 50% of hous...

I've previously posted about my amazement at the AI that has recently been released into the wild of the internets and how convinced I a...

"I was looking for a job, and then I found a job And heaven knows I'm miserable now" - Morrisey and the Smiths The misery inde...

Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin were both born on February 12, 1809. Lincoln is still the only president to hold a patent, which is a del...

The idea of zero-sum thinking stifles economic progress by fostering the notion that resources are scarce and that one person's gain mus...

The data that tells the story about the economy is generally much better than the stories you hear about the economy.  GDP grew in the last ...

Musk points out in a response to a random tweet that it isn't possible for him to fix Twitter overnight given, you know, he has 2 other ...

The gaming industry is now bigger than the movies and music industries combined. And I think it is just getting started in terms of impact. ...

Another great jobs report: 223,000 jobs created and unemployment down to 3.5%. The unemployment rate has hit 3.5% 7 times in the last 40 mon...

I'm suddenly far more optimistic about the new year now that we're back down to just one pope. Benedict was the first pope to retire...

2022 was a year of huge stories. Huge. In technical advances, MRNA therapy got its first positive results with a cancer vaccine, we sustaine...

"Virginia State Delegate Marie March (R) has pre-filed House Bill 1395, a law that would define life as beginning at fertilization....

The pandemic may have accelerated a change in how we think about work and pay. When the US was founded, a vast majority of work fell into on...

Trump announced his run for president today. We will soon see whether Republicans have become less gullible and Democrats less timid. If the...

Increased life expectancy and lower birthrates have slowed political change. Ronald Inglehart (who died just last year) compiled an enormous...

As far as I know, not a single one of my Republican friends has denounced Donald. That puzzles me. Like a toddler on his third line of coke,...

An intruder broke into Nancy Pelosi's home yesterday to attack her. Her husband was violently assaulted and has had surgery to repair a ...