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Essentialism — A Rational Response to Irrational Times

Essentialism — A Rational Response to Irrational Times

  When the financial environment goes through a sudden and radical change, every person and every enterprise will go through an urgent rethinking, since anything and everything about the future that we once had reasonable expectations about is now open to question. Since the nature of a massive degraded environmental change is so complete and [...]

Shortermism and the Innovation Economy

Shortermism and the Innovation Economy

Frontpaged in the NY Times today in an article by William J. Broad and Cornelia Dean is a comparison of the two presidential candidates' plans for renewing the United States as an innovation economy. Assuming that Obama will win the election, I think it is safe to say that America will return to a deep and long term investment in science [...]