As you may have already guessed, John and I are mentally wiped out right now and are taking a short break from blogging. We’re saving up ideas and posts and will be ready to go again once the new year starts. In the meantime, here are a few questions to consider. If you’d like to […]

The problem is, we can’t usually tell in advance which ideas are good and which aren’t. The New York Times has just published The 10th Annual Year in Ideas. As part of this, they asked Tyler Cowen to comment on the previous reviews. He noted this quote from the introduction to the piece: The 2001 […]

Entrepreneurship is now a pretty big deal. Business schools all over the world have courses in this area and some even make it their major focus of teaching and research. Governments are also interested in entrepreneurs and routinely ask themselves how they can develop a more entrepreneurial national culture. Many years ago, an economist called […]

Like Tim, I grew up reading a lot of books. However, I just don’t recall the quality and quantity of books that are available for my pre-school age children. Nearly 40 years ago I remember reading a lot of Dr. Seuss but apart from that there wasn’t a lot of literature that I would now […]