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On Telepresence
Despite what the travel industry wants, telepresence is going to keep taking off. Why? It makes business sense. It’s cheaper (flights, hotels, expense accounts), its more effective (meetings in six cities in one day), and its empowering (work from anywhere). Over … Continue reading
Pawla Kuczynskiego
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The End and Future of MEND
Co-option is one of the most important levers open source counterinsurgency specialists have. (Think the Awakening or ISCI cells in Helmand.) As such, several key component groups of MEND have been bought out of the system: Eleven former warlords, who were … Continue reading
Role of Speculators
We saw this in 2008. Oil and food inflation (partly driven by the former, as well as ethanol) and spiking gas prices. Given that the public’s patience has been sapped (marked by protests all over the world) by gross mismanagement … Continue reading
Fordlândia
Unfortunately, rubber manufacturers in East Asia were running a virtual monopoly that drove up the price of raw materials. Ford’s idea: Create the world’s largest rubber plantation in the middle of the Amazon forest, which after all is the native … Continue reading