hy Highly Successful Entrepreneurs Are Older Than We Expect…
The Development Debate About Chickens
When Bill Gates expressed his foundation’s support for giving chickens to people in extreme poverty, he ignited a debate about development programs.…
One Way That the "Poor Beat the Rich"
In just 8 minutes, Hans Rosling shows us that, with child mortality rates, the developing world is making more progress than we might expect. With his captivating “gapminder” approach, he …
US Economic Growth: Buffett and Gates
My story starts yesterday with a Penn Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics. Explaining that an image of the history of the universe could emerge from two celestial bodies, he added that similarly, …
Economic Disagreement
Astronomy might help us understand US history according to biographer Walter Isaacson. We just need to think about binary systems in which 2 separately orbiting stars “are linked because of thei…
Does Luck Matter?
Whether looking at the World Series of Poker or the corporate world, skill plays a larger role than luck when achieving success.…
Success
In a wonderful NYC Radio Lab podcast about success, Malcolm Gladwell also explains why genius is closely related to love. Recorded at the 92nd Street Y in NYC, writer Malcolm Gladwell…