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Labor Day: Technology, Trade and Labor
Yet the campaign had completely failed to do what a political campaign is supposed to do – bring the nation to full awareness and earnest discussion of its most crucial issues and lead to a verdict that would put those issues … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Disruption, Policy
Tagged Employment, Global Trade, Labor, Labor Day, Policy, technology, The Globalization Dilemma, Trade
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The World Economic Forum’s ‘Top 10 Emerging Technologies’
Nanosensors! Autonomous vehicles! [Yawn.] We’ve seen these before. Organs-on-chips? Optogenetics?!? Now this is interesting. The Davos-based World Economic forum released a list of 10 emerging technologies that made a tour of the press a few weeks ago. There is no … Continue reading
Posted in Disruption, Innovation, Invention, Theory
Tagged Autonomous Vehicle, Batteries, Borophene, Davos, Forecasting, Graphene, Industry, Materials Science, Science, Self driving cars, Silicene, technology, World Economic Forum
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Project Planning: Stay out of the (San Francisco) Mud
San Francisco’s $350 MM Millennium Tower is sinking into the mud beneath it. Finished in 2009, some now believe that it could sink as much as 3 feet – greater than initial estimates of ‘possibly an inch in the event … Continue reading
Posted in Disruption, Industry, Innovation, Materials Science
Tagged Architecture, Materials, Mud, Planning, Project, Project Management, Soil
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5 Ways NBC Could Have Saved Olympic Coverage
Criticism of NBC’s coverage of the Rio Summer Olympics began early. Tear inducing back stories showing an Olympians inspiration and path to the games is a well known trope. The real tragedy that emerges from NBC’s blaming an entire generation … Continue reading
“I hate your plan. (But I won’t suggest alternatives.)”
Names can create power. Finding an existing accepted name is even more helpful. I encountered a management challenge that has been hard to name. After circling the problem for a few weeks, I opened up Pirie’s, How to Win Every … Continue reading
Posted in Business, History, Methods, Theory, Uncategorized
Tagged Behavior, leadership, Logic, Logical fallacy, Management, Reading, Words
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Planning and Preparation: Two Weeks in St. John, USVI
Planning Tools Past trips with family Packing lists (Wendy with beach and vacation food) Tripadvisor was extremely helpful – more helpful than Yelp, Google Maps, etc. Kids beach and snorkel kit Day 0 / Saturday: Flights from RDU => CLT … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Family, Fun, Holiday, Organization, Planning, Trips, Vacation, Virgin Islands
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My Bad Calf Cramp was a Blood Clot
If you have a persistent bad calf cramp it could be indicative of a blood clot. A blood clot, once in your body, can break off, go elsewhere and get into your lungs and/or brain and kill you. I did … Continue reading
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Tagged Blood clot, Calf Cramp, DVT, Exercise, Health, Medicine, Travel
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Technology Forecasting and Predictions: 2016 (7 of 7)
DTNS’s 2016 prediction show, #2657, was published on December 31, 2015 and along with the diverse group of hosts, there was a broad range of predictions in many areas. Virtual reality dominated from an air time standpoint. With multiple big … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Disruption, Innovation, Invention, Theory
Tagged Forecast, Forecasting, Podcast, Podcasting, Predictions, technology
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Is that a Disruptive Prediction? (6 of 7)
“And two years later, what come out? PlayStation 2.” – Ali G Some predictions are linear – like that made by Sasha Baron Cohen’s character Ali G above. Sitting in 1993 it might have been disruptive to predict Sony’s entrance … Continue reading
Posted in Disruption, Industry, Innovation
Tagged Disruption, Forecasting, future, Futurism, Prediction, technology
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