The day is soon coming when you’ll click “buy it now” on a website and the product will be delivered to you the same→
Westworld: When adults think about starting a business, they worry about loans and other terrifying prospects that often stop them from following their dreams.→
Rather than thinking of themselves as builders or architects of a business, entrepreneurs should think of themselves as prospectors. Prospectors have one fundamental goal→
There’s always a better way to do something, even if that something is steeped in tradition and lore. Yesterday, winemakers stomped on grapes in→
Central Valley Business Times: Here’s a chance for your own really cool business: installing tire chains on frozen mountain roads this winter in California!→
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is a 2007 horror musical comedy film directed by Tim Burton. It is an adaptation a→
At companies like Valve and Github, gone are the managers who boss people around and expect servile compliance. In their place is a flat→
Happy Halloween. Happy Reformation Day! 1517 – Protestant Reformation: Martin Luther posts his 95 theses on the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg.→
The Economist: Overhauling an industry of which you know little is not easy, but neither is it impossible. In 1956 Malcolm McLean, a trucker→
Remember peak oil? Someone forgot to tell North Dakota and Texas. After producing a relatively inconsequential share of the nation’s crude oil for many→
Fast Company: Decano Industries’ smart speed bump is so intuitive, it’s difficult to figure out why no one invented it before. The bump, which→
The Wall Street Journal: When a man in a Cartier watch stepped into the IWC Schaffhausen boutique in Beverly Hills recently, salesman Hua Huynh→
Fast Company: The James Dyson Awards, a sprawling event that garners thousands of entries from design students the world over, is a pretty phenomenal→
Products to amuse and inspire. Dress For Dinner Napkin. Dressing for dinner has never been so easy! Disposable Lighter Camcorder. Perfect for spying on→
Sacha Greif: $0: Use a free framework and UI freebies $0-$100: Get a pre-made theme and nice typeface $100-$500: Consider crowdsourcing $500-$1000: Crowdsourcing or→
When I was a kid, teachers would confiscate all kinds of stuff from unruly students. Knives, radios, yo-yos, you name it. If a kid→
Makers: The New Industrial Revolution, by WIRED magazine editor Chris Anderson takes you to the front lines of a new industrial revolution as today’s→
Watching fellow college students working for $7.50 an hour after graduation, Tana Walther, a fashion-design major at Kent State University in Ohio, snapped up→
There are a dozen homes in Detroit, Michigan that you can get for less than $100. Most have a listing price of only $1.→
Cassandra Daily: Playing make-believe is typically an imagination exercise, but Italian company hi-Fun has created taken it to a highly functional level. The hi-Call→