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This article says that since 1965 the return on assets for US corporations has dropped by 75% while the biggest additions to the asset base over the same period have been hardware …

Shirky is a ridiculously good speaker. Thanks for posting this.

-> "A good developer would never put the end of the digestive system right next to the start of the reproduction system - not even if that would require fewer lines of code (which …

I doubt whether there is any conclusive empirical data on this question. Feel free to guess.

Pogue says he uses "typing expansion software" -> http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/21/typing-expansion-s... That must take some getting used to. I use a similar feature in Ne…

Not sure what you mean.

I really like Derek Sivers' blog but I have an issue about affiliate linking. Maybe it's just my issue but when I see Amazon affiliate links for all of the books on this list, it m…

Doesn't the company have a contractual obligation to pay you your wages even if it has to go into debt to do so? I don't see how they could get away with that.

I'm not speaking anatomically. In an interview situation, regardless of which side of the table you're sitting on, what can you ask to determine what type of person you're dealing …

"Redfin is trying to rewrite the rules of the real estate industry." It would be nice if TechCrunch didn't copy the press release verbatim.

I don't find it particularly uncool to convey your meaning as effectively as you can, especially when, in a corporate environment, there is so much other data competing for the att…

Because of the screen limitations of the Blackberry and iPhone and the deluge of email most people receive, is it feasible to set a hard limit on the length of your emails or would…

If this is a duplicate, it's one that a lot of people could benefit from. Summary: 1. Delete redundancies. 2. Use numbers and specifics instead of adverbs and adjectives. 3. Add mi…