The Company posted quarterly revenue of $39.2 billion and quarterly net profit of $11.6 billion
That’s almost a billion per week - in profit, not revenue. Crazy numbers. H…
Paul Graham chips in on the top five regrets of the dying:
The alarming thing is, the mistakes that produce these regrets are all errors of omission. You forget your dreams, ignore your family, suppr…
The downfall of newspaper publishing is not something to shrug one’s shoulders at, like with Blockbuster falling apart. It is a genuine tragedy.
The newspaper industry dying is indee…
A while ago I made my first hire for my current business. It’s been years since the last time I hired someone in a permanent position. It was that time again.
It was a great opportunity to consider: H…
Well, what’s the purpose of the way we design our society?
To me, it must be to design a system that enables and encourages the greatest growth and happiness for everyone. Of course, that’s hard to de…
The purpose of intellectual property rights is to encourage the most creativity in a society. That’s why they were invented. In the words of Thomas Jefferson:
Society may give an exclusive right to t…
As a teacher, my primary asset is my own story, my own experience. Yet I still have this jante law programming against talking about myself. That’s why it was such a relief to come across this paragra…
A few days ago as I was cooking a lasagne for my kids, and I thought to myself: This stuff is really time-consuming and messy! We’d been juice-fasting for a few days, and the contrast to shopping for,…
