Archive for March, 2010
Mercator Projection
I used to have a professor who ranted (seemingly at random moments in a lecture) that “the map is NOT the territory, people!” At the time I didn’t care too much what the heck he meant because those inane ramblings never showed up on final exams. Many years later however, I find that this is [...]
Faster Mommy! Faster!
I’m going to go out on a ledge and say that Toyota’s problems with out-of-control acceleration should have been caught sooner. This seems like a case of the emperor wears no clothes…everyone expects that Toyota is the highest quality auto on the road so no one is paying attention to the numbers? Apparently, while Toyota [...]
Awash in A Sea of Data
I respectfully submit that the vast majority of corporations and people are awash in a sea of data that they don’t know what to do with. For individuals, this is about life choices and priorities and yadda yadda yadda. For corporations, this is about stopping this 4 year-old obsession with more more more (data) and [...]
Know What’s Important
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Rich Today, Poor Tomorrow
About 7.6 million more people are soon going to be poor who aren’t poor today. I wonder if they’ll get a postcard welcoming them to the club. The Obama administration is recommending for the first time in 45 years, an update to poverty definitions in America in order to accommodate more modern components like healthcare. [...]