Musings from the Peanut Gallery

Seth Godin has an excellent post discussing the natural limits of a business, and how we need to think about those limits as we work to grow it.
One side comment in that post relates to the carrying capacity of the planet, along with a comment on population limits.
The earth has a carrying capacity, certainly. It [...]

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The first iPhone application that I’ve been involved in creating is now available on the iTunes AppStore. This is an exciting moment for me and for Point Inside, as we bring the company out of stealth mode and go public with our product.
Point Inside maps indoor spaces. At launch, we have nearly 400 malls around [...]

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This graph shows the profligate spending of an out of control government:

The Republicans didn’t do too well, but this level of spending by the Democrats (starting with the 08 budget year by the way) is beyond irresponsible.
(via Instapundit and Transterrestrial Musings)

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democrats, Economics, politics

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Megan McArdle has a great article showing the moral bankruptcy of the logic that our leaders seem to be using today.
But second of all, just as there is no way to tax a corporation, there is no way to default on a corporation. Whenever you default, you are taking money from some person: [...]

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I’m not generally an apologist for Bush or the latest incarnation of Republicrats, but this certainly proves who was unwilling to deal with the problems at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac when they could have been dealt with.

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Tim Ferris, at his Four Hour Work Week blog, discusses the roller-coaster curve of the entrepreneur, and starts off comparing it to the current economic roller-coaster.
Ever since the media’s Chicken Little response to the tremors in the financial markets, I’ve felt like shouting from the rooftops “now you know how it feels to be an [...]

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Robert X. Cringely has this post dealing with the current economic situation. Someone finally makes sense in a policy that could actually work. Don’t expect the politicians to attempt it, though. They’d have to keep their hands off, something politicians can’t seem to do.
I don’t necessarily agree with his use of government rules on lighting [...]

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Apparently many people like to say that the current economic situation is the worst since the great depression. While that makes for great headlines, and plays to the Democrats story, it’s not the truth.
Small Business Labs has a blog post that compares the current conditions with the 80’s, with graphs.
Unemployment was very high in the [...]

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Stanley Schmidt had another interesting editorial in the November 2008 Analog magazine. he discusses disruptive technologies and ideas that seem to have a life of their own without any rational for their continued existence. Overall, the article was good and thought provoking.
What I found interesting was his assertion that the marketplace sometimes makes bad decisions [...]

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Via @kiwork on Twitter, I read this press release from Sun, telling how their study of their flexible work program, they discovered that their employees on the program saved considerable money.
Main points:

Employees saved more than $1,700 per year in gasoline and wear and tear on their vehicles by working at home an average of 2.5 [...]

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