I’ve been reading a book by a well-known and successful consultant Alan Weiss (author of Million Dollar Consulting and about 30 other books), and he had an interesting anecdote regarding persistence (most likely of dubious authenticity).
As I paraprhase how Alan tells it, an organization had a sales team with one individual who, by most accounts, is a terrible salesperson. He [...]
In an August 2009 New York Times article, here’s what a Google mucky-muck has to say about the world of math and science:
“I keep saying that the sexy job in the next 10 years will be statisticians,” said Hal Varian, chief economist at Google. “And I’m not kidding.”
Knowledge of statistics and, most importantly, how to exploit them will become an [...]
Today, Virgin Group’s Richard Branson is unveiling his venture’s first space tourism vehicle, SpaceShipTwo.
The ship’s predecessor, SpaceShipOne, also designed by the aerospace legend Burt Rutan, won the $10 million X Prize, given to the first private spacecraft to fly into suborbital space twice within a 14 day period.
Given the winning and demonstrated design of SpaceShipOne, Branson launched Virgin Galactic to [...]
On Monday, Europe’s Large Hadron Collider set a record by smashing protons together at energies never achieved before. This energy, 1.18 trillion electronvolts (TeV), beats the previous record of 0.98 TeV in 2001 by America’s Tevatron collider at Fermilab outside of Chicago.
So, you might be asking, why should we care?
Well, to figure out how the universe works, scientists have needed [...]
Voltaire in his Dictionnaire Philosophique (1764) said, “Le mieux est l’ennemi du bien“, literally translated as “The best is the enemy of good.” (bet you didn’t think I knew French, huh?…) It has been modified over the years to refer to “the perfect”, but it long ago captured a consistent logical reality that challenges us all, scientists and non-scientists alike.
It’s a [...]
…is the New Oxford American Dictionary’s 2009 Word of the Year. The term “unfriend”, a verb, means to remove someone as a friend on a social networking Web site such as Facebook. (read more here…)
Oxford lexicographer Christine Lindberg says unfriend has “real lex appeal.” (ugh…. there is no such thing as a good pun…)
Admittedly, I think it’s just really interesting to [...]
60 Minutes has a fascinating piece this past Sunday on paleontologist and Montana State University professor Jack Horner. He is your classic scientific rebel – doing things that confound the scientific establishment… and coming up with amazing and new findings as he does it…
So basically, even though we know the story about how a giant meteor crashed into the Earth [...]
Cool info that I ran across from Seth Godin about where most of the internet “clicking” comes from:
Turns out that 85% of all display ad clicks come from only 8% of all internet users… So who are these ads targeting anyway?…
Read Seth’s analysis and also the original article from Jack Loechner…
I was reading through my latest copy of Fortune magazine this morning, and ran across a blurb that I found interesting enough to share…
First off, the way we make progress in anything we do is by being honest with the world presents to us, and then figuring out how to interpret it properly. So you have to have some sort [...]
For a long time, I’ve wanted an outlet to share what I’ve learned and help others out in the process. I haven’t been very good at getting to the right answer (but, then again, when do we?…) A great article by Penelope Trunk got me going (so, I should probably thank her for getting me “back in the game”…)
So, I’ve [...]
