Farnam Street offers an excellent write-up that highlights the importance of incentives (you can never read too much about this), and the different systems of incentives and reinforcement. This is great learning for both business leaders and parents. | learn more
Tucked away in Chicago’s upscale Lincoln Park neighborhood, a number of internet retailers have found homes for in-store experiences along Armitage Ave. They include Warby Parker, Bonobos, Tie Bar, and Interior Define. Now, a new company called Pop Box will […]
Cruise, the startup acquired by GM for over $1B to develop autonomous vehicles, recently acquired a company called Strobe, makers of advanced LIDAR technology. This post by Cruise’s CEO Kyle Vogt discusses the acquisition and their plans for success. | learn more
Highrise CEO Nathan Kontny tells stories about what it took for successes, including painter Claude Monet and musician Justin Bieber, to break through to exposure and success. | learn more
This is a great biography that shows both sides of this complicated captain of industry. Rockefeller was both a deeply pious and generous philanthropist, and at the same time a ruthless businessman who knew how to manipulate competitors and entire […]
“The two Academy presidents Chunli Bai and Anton Zeilinger tested quantum encrypted communication between Beijing and Vienna in a live-experiment. The quantum key was transmitted via the Chinese quantum satellite Micius.” | learn more
“The Netherlands is a small, densely populated country, with more than 1,300 inhabitants per square mile. It’s bereft of almost every resource long thought to be necessary for large-scale agriculture. Yet it’s the globe’s number two exporter of food as […]
“Your Nashoba Granola label lists ingredient ‘Love’. Ingredients required to be declared on the label or labeling of food must be listed by their common or usual name [21 CFR 101.4(a)(1). ‘Love’ is not a common or usual name of […]
The late Shimon Peres, former President of Israel, tells the story of how he helped Israel develop (with France’s help) it’s nuclear power capabilities. This is a cool behind-the-scenes look at big scale politics. | learn more
A Chinese team has used a DNA editing technique called base editing to remove a genetic disease called beta-thalassemia from a human embryo. “Base editing is an advance on a form of gene-editing known as Crispr, that is already revolutionising [sic] science.” | learn more