The dot-com Game
I was catching-up on RyanTatusko’s blog the other night when I read his recent post on games played among minor leaguers. Last year I attended an Orem Owlz’s game where I saw the Owlz playing some iteration of the pre-game ball games he discusses. I think it was likely speedball which he describes as followings:
Strategic Immigration
There is often much said on strategic immigration and the competitive battle for the world’s most gifted workers. A recent interview with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer in the Detroit Free Press drives home the negative externalities from limiting the brightest from our shores. Ballmer discusses why in 2007 Microsoft built an R&D facility in Vancouver – just over the […]
A Lack of Confidence Can be Very Contagious
Recently I’ve been asked repeatedly about the current state of Europe. I’ve said since January that 2012 was going to be marked by periods of volatility – stressing that European issues would be a key catalyst to those periods of volatility (energy prices have also contributed to uneasiness – something I’ll say more on at […]