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As many of my readers get ready for a long weekend, here are two of my books now on discount at Amazon-for another few days. This is Strategy is 90% off on the Kindle. $3! And This is Marketi ...

A friend sorts his records in an interesting way: not by name or genre, but by which musicians are friends with each other. That means some shelves are very crowded, and I'm imagining a few n ...

Typesetters did not like the laser printer. Wedding photographers still hate the iphone. And some musicians are outraged that AI is now making mediocre pop music. One group of esteemed authors is d ...

A sea slug sees far more colors than you do, and you probably see more than a profoundly color-blind person. Who's right? We each carry our own version of reality, our own story about what ha ...

Spend enough time inventing possible futures in your head and you won't have any time to build the future we will all share. Time to get to work.

Game theory has a lousy name. When most people think of games, they think of commercial stuff for kids, like Chutes and Ladders or possibly Monopoly. But a game is simply a system where humans, fac ...

That's a complete reversal of how it used to be. Colleges used to be measured by how many books they had in the library. Access to courses was restricted. If knowledge was power, controlling ...

At sea level, water boils at 100 degrees C. It doesn't matter how much more heat you use, steam is what you get. It turns out that water this hot makes lousy coffee. Tea too. And an amp turne ...

Verbosity is the new brevity. Google felt like a miracle. We could type just a word or two ("blog") and it would magically guess what we wanted and take us there. This shortcut spread f ...

The outcome of our work can be easy or difficult to predict. It's not hard to determine if a bridge is going to fall down or if code is going to compile. The scientific method and statistics ...