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Is Kemper County, Mississippi going to be the future of the climate change battle?

You may have heard about the Kemper County (MS) power plant — here’s the Wiki for it, for good measure — as it could be a major step forward in the climate change battle. Here’s the basic situation: the plant converts coal into… Continue Reading

Brief thought exercise: could you go five days only checking e-mail 8-10 times?

Simple idea behind e-mail was to make our lives easier and more connected. It did that — you can fire off one line to a friend/business partner in Finland, and they can get it seconds later — but in the… Continue Reading

Krumbach, Austria is figuring out the future of the bus stop (well, not really)

We all need to be riding buses more, and as such, we need cooler places to wait. But broadly, the bus stop hasn’t changed a lot in about five decades. Krumbach, Austria — which has a population of about 1,000… Continue Reading

Climate change will soon be arriving at your breakfast table, and General Mills might start fading as a company around 2035

Quick, semi-humorous story before we get into this: last October, General Mills came to my graduate school to recruit. They had set up interviews on a Thursday, and conducted probably 10-12 that day. It just so happened that the same… Continue Reading

“Without humility, you are unable to learn.” This is a message to managers in businesses.

Let’s say you really like football, up to the point that you consider the best football players to be “warriors” and the like. You view the whole thing as a complex allegory for war, so the most successful coaches are… Continue Reading

The ‘telemetric age’ — a.k.a. ‘The Internet Of Things’ — could be normative by 2025. (Gird your loins!)

This, today, from Pew Research: “One positive effect of ‘ubiquitous computing,’ as it used to be called, will be much faster, more convenient, and lower-cost medical diagnostics. This will be essential if we are to meet the health care needs… Continue Reading

Brief thought exercise: in reality, does your job need to exist?

Are you doing something that really moves the org forward, or are you there to represent how fast the place is growing? Continue Reading

This is the time of a given year when everyone starts writing about how Americans really do love soccer. As ever, it’s not completely true.

Today’s May 13. The World Cup begins on June 12 — Brazil vs. Croatia — so technically, we have now crossed over into the “less than one month until the World Cup” time period. With that — always in WC… Continue Reading