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posted: December 27, 2023
tl;dr: It’s hard to know now how the fourth turning will end, but Neil Howe tries his best...
posted: December 23, 2023
tl;dr: The world would be a better place if more people understood probability and statistics...
posted: December 16, 2023
tl;dr: You can never know the true winner of an A/B test, but you can get significantly close...
posted: December 9, 2023
tl;dr: Money flows easily with liquid investments whereas illiquid ones are frozen solid in place...
posted: December 2, 2023
tl;dr: Another format change yields the most diverse volume of O. Henry stories ever...
posted: November 25, 2023
tl;dr: Don’t panic, instead read this post...
posted: November 18, 2023
tl;dr: The best essays in this volume are not the ones about the pandemic...
posted: November 11, 2023
tl;dr: Once you get in the World Series, all that matters is how well you play in October and November...
posted: November 4, 2023
tl;dr: Once you get in the playoffs, all that matters is how well you play in October...
posted: October 29, 2023
tl;dr: How a billionaire might fight climate change with geoengineering...
posted: October 18, 2023
tl;dr: Being a war hero is a fleeting honor...
posted: October 14, 2023
tl;dr: Kudos to Jesmyn Ward for staying on task and coming up with a better-than-usual selection of stories...
posted: October 4, 2023
tl;dr: The Devil's Highway is quite appropriately named...
posted: September 28, 2023
tl;dr: Windmills have one fatal flaw and numerous other problems...
posted: September 17, 2023
tl;dr: Dynamic pricing algorithms are determining a growing percentage of the prices we pay...
posted: September 16, 2023
tl;dr: If you are measuring the energy capacity of anything in terms of watts, you are confusing power and energy...
posted: September 10, 2023
tl;dr: The pleasures and benefits of being a bad weather biker and skier...
posted: September 2, 2023
tl;dr: Only connect things to the Internet and/or AI which are safe to do so...
posted: August 25, 2023
tl;dr: The hot new game that is sweeping the nation and the globe...
posted: August 19, 2023
tl;dr: How I am able to bicycle 100 miles a week when the daily high temperatures are over 100...
posted: August 12, 2023
tl;dr: As I’ve seen firsthand, Taiwan is a good friend and important partner to the United States...
posted: August 6, 2023
tl;dr: It’s a throwback skill, but here are some tips using other modern technology...
posted: July 29, 2023
tl;dr: One possible scenario for the world of a digital afterlife...
posted: July 29, 2023
tl;dr: The first taxi ride in my life where the driver obeyed 100% of the traffic laws...
posted: July 20, 2023
tl;dr: I may be a lifer myself, not in sports but in technology...
posted: July 15, 2023
tl;dr: A case study of how software automates aspects of retail automotive industry jobs...
posted: July 8, 2023
tl;dr: Another way cars have been made less fun is through the proliferation of dashboard warning lights...
posted: July 8, 2023
tl;dr: A joyous time capsule of the American motorcycle racing and competition scene from the late 1960s...
posted: July 4, 2023
tl;dr: An enjoyable last hurrah (?) for Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones...
posted: July 1, 2023
tl;dr: Sometimes a few lines of deterministic code can outperform the most complex algorithms...
posted: June 24, 2023
tl;dr: Although I enjoyed the office, all good things must come to an end...
posted: June 17, 2023
tl;dr: A gas-sipper with impressive performance that can go anywhere, all day...
posted: June 10, 2023
tl;dr: A refined, civilized, lighter-weight SUV that doesn’t stand out as much as it once did...
posted: June 3, 2023
tl;dr: One of the best hires I ever made was when I hired someone who worked at a customer...
posted: May 27, 2023
tl;dr: Some of the best people I’ve hired and worked with are military veterans...
posted: May 20, 2023
tl;dr: There are two predecessor steps to focus upon before you sell the product and/or service...
posted: May 13, 2023
tl;dr: It wasn’t music, and it certainly wasn’t email that made me switch from a Blackberry to an iPhone...
posted: May 12, 2023
tl;dr: A future history of how the collapse of the U.S. dollar happens gradually and then suddenly...
posted: May 6, 2023
tl;dr: How I structure a .py file so that it works as a script and an importable module...
posted: April 29, 2023
tl;dr: Amazing things can sometimes result when software developers are allowed to work on whatever they please, part two...
posted: April 27, 2023
tl;dr: The first collection utilizing O. Henry’s new selection methodology is a winner...
posted: April 22, 2023
tl;dr: Amazing things can sometimes result when software developers are allowed to work on whatever they please...
posted: April 15, 2023
tl;dr: Heavenly’s views are unrivaled, but it needs some work to keep pace with other world-class resorts...
posted: April 6, 2023
tl;dr: What to do when too many users are relying upon buggy software...
posted: April 1, 2023
tl;dr: Coming soon to an MLB stadium near you: the best sports innovation since basketball’s shot clock...
posted: March 25, 2023
tl;dr: A near-perfect one-person touring motorcycle...
posted: March 18, 2023
tl;dr: My experience with the venture capitalists’ bank, Silicon Valley Bank...
posted: March 10, 2023
tl;dr: One of the last and best models of the beloved, iconic, Evolution-based Sportster line...
posted: March 4, 2023
tl;dr: Sometimes great ideas are brought to market well before the technology and ecosystem exist for them to succeed...
posted: February 27, 2023
tl;dr: A hopefully overly pessimistic book that nevertheless describes some important changes underway in the world...
posted: February 25, 2023
tl;dr: An appreciation of the gasoline-powered internal combustion engine on my Harley...
posted: February 25, 2023
tl;dr: An engrossing presentation of the Bernie Madoff scam and the failings of others to stop him...
posted: February 18, 2023
tl;dr: Signaling for turns is a skill in decline that may someday be obsolete...
posted: February 11, 2023
tl;dr: The mandates and passports could not make the vaccines perform well enough to stop COVID-19...
posted: February 8, 2023
tl;dr: A fine collection of pre-pandemic essays...
posted: February 4, 2023
tl;dr: We sacrificed the young to allay the fears of elderly elites...
posted: January 27, 2023
tl;dr: In the 1970s nuclear power, not global warming, was supposed to kill millions...
posted: January 21, 2023
tl;dr: Something may someday rise from the smoldering ruins of the cryptocurrency industry, if some actual value can be created...
posted: January 12, 2023
tl;dr: No, it was not the end of the Internet as we know it when Title II-based net neutrality was repealed...
posted: January 7, 2023
tl;dr: A new series of posts in which I explain how and why the experts got it wrong...
posted: January 1, 2023
tl;dr: Supply chain issues will persist as globalization ends and the world separates into West versus East...