The Difference Between a Leader and a Manager

I was listening to a tech podcast the other day that reminded me of an important element of what makes a team successful. A team, in this context, is just an informal way of defining whatever organization happens to be in place. The subject of this All In podcast was…

We are inching closer to the world of the Jetsons. No, this isn’t going to be about the arrival of the flying car. That will happen one day. But the day of push-button food, in a very digital way, is here. …

Wondering how the Wall Street Bets Reddit group is making waves beyond making tendies from stonk memes like Gamestop and Blackberry? The mostly guys that jovially tackle the world of finance and wall street have always posted about their support for local charitities amidst the bantering about hedge funds, Robinhood…

What happens if that lap top you are using dies?

We tend to think of insurance as a financial instrument that covers us in the case of a loss. Remote working is not for the risk adverse.

Having a laptop with all your important files on it is risky when…

For a long time I worked at bringing autonomous vehicles into government. At first, it was amplifying my seat at the table in municipal governments, to introduce the concept in basic land use, that cars, roads and garages weren’t always going to be dictated by a standard measure used in…

Thanks for the link Danielle. Yes, the service sector retail is part of the equation, but from an urban economic development pov, the larger issue looms when cities can't collect employment taxes (Philadelphia and San Francisco) and property values based on the lease demand/values along with infrastrcture to mass transit cast a great unknown shadow.

For decades now there has been a relentless effort to shoft the burden of paying for infrastructure and services by local government from a shared civic investment through taxes, to a user financed model by shifting the operational costs to fees collected by the people who use the services. The…

Time is a funny concept.

For most of humanity, time has been an arbitrary measure of things. It was Protagoras who waxed philosophically that man was the measure of all things and certainly man invented time. So the philosophical question is to ask is time then imperfect?

Civilizations that remain…