Resurrection
The public copy of the AI and love story, kept separate from the article pile.
Open the book pageEssays / fiction / working notes
Writing.
Some writing is teaching. Some is thinking in public. Some is story. This section is for the ideas that needed words instead of copper, code, or paint.
A story about AI and love.
I do not expect to formally publish most of this work. I would rather make it available here, free to read and use, in the hope that a former student, entrepreneur, technologist, artist, or curious friend may find a useful idea, a provocation, or a thread worth pulling. Open the all-writing pile.
Technology and art
Read the essay
Art in the Age of Technology
Film, digital imaging, picture-frame televisions, children's art, and the way old media become choices instead of prisons.
Technology and art
Read the essay
The Forgiving Final Surface
Watercolor, Photoshop, giclee printing, and picture-frame televisions as a new freedom to revise handmade art without repainting the original.
Fiction
Open the book page
Resurrection
Jesse dies in Tokyo. Hal tries to recover her through memory, archive, machine intelligence, and a question that will not leave him alone.
Resurrection
Read the foundation
The Ideas Behind Resurrection
Evolution, randomness, consciousness, connection, hierarchy, and why this story is about more than artificial intelligence.
Business
Open the pile
Essays on Business
Markets, categories, venture capital, software, AI, teaching, and the psychology of building companies.
Core theory
Find the thread
Evolution and randomness
Darwin, the drunkard's walk, unintended consequences, the Noosphere, and entrepreneurship as adaptation under uncertainty.
Working pile
Sort from here
All writing pile
One searchable pile of cards with short IDs, synopses, source filenames, and links to the full PDF for each piece.
AI and software
Read the article
From SaaS to OaaS
A six-part LinkedIn series turned into an essay about ice, Kodak, Sea Oaks, AI-assisted development, open source, and outcomes as a service.
Teaching
Download the free book
Entrepreneurial Action
My original textbook for MBA entrepreneurship students, shared freely for former students and builders who may still find it useful.
Codex field notes
Open the field notes
AI-assisted development
Practical notes from using Codex on live web software: diagnostics, email delivery, safe debugging, and what makes the tool useful beyond toy demos.
Bespoke art
Open the archive
Take My Art
A free, living archive of 3840 x 2160 JPG images for picture-frame TVs, growing out of the Bespoke Art in the Age of AI essay.
Books and longer works.
Entrepreneurial Action
The entrepreneurship textbook written for Bob's Babson students, available as a free PDF.
Read free PDFStarting a Startup
A companion guide for entrepreneurs moving from idea to markets, customers, and operating choices.
Read free PDFScreenplay material.
Luddite
The richer automated-trucking story draft, likely the best source for the Collisions trailer work.
Read PDFWriting inventory.
This is the working table for deciding what belongs on the site. It combines old blog entries, articles, drafts, fiction, business notes, and AI development notes, sorted by date with the newest dated pieces first.
96 pieces
| ID | Date | Title / Source | What it is | Synopsis | Full file |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| W000B | 2026 | Art in the Age of Technology art-in-the-age-of-technology.html · content/writing/essays/ · published | Essay | This essay moves from film and digital cameras to picture-frame televisions and children's art. It argues that technology does not simply replace older media; it reveals what we valued in them and can bring unseen family art back into daily life. | HTML |
| W000A | 2026 | The Forgiving Final Surface the-forgiving-final-surface.html · content/writing/essays/ · published | Essay | This essay uses a corrected Arles watercolor to explore how Photoshop, giclee printing, and picture-frame televisions create a forgiving final surface for handmade art. It is about technology giving artists a second presentation layer without replacing the hand work. | HTML |
| W000 | 2026 | Pricing in the World of Bespoke Software and Art pricing-in-the-world-of-bespoke-software-and-art.html · content/writing/essays/ · draft | Essay | This new essay argues that AI-driven bespoke software may push ordinary SaaS pricing toward zero unless another business model supports it. It connects the Open Source Art experiment, picture-frame TVs, tennis scheduling software, commodity markets, and the shift of profit from software into hardware, consumables, services, advertising, convenience, and customer access. | HTML |
| W001 | 2026 | Bespoke Art in the Age of AI 2026-06-25-bespoke-art-in-the-age-of-ai.md · content/writing/essays/ · 8.6 KB | Essay | This new essay connects Bob’s life in photography, digital imaging, art-making, and AI to the long history of technology changing visual art. It argues that AI enables a new kind of private, personal, bespoke wall art: images that combine mature styles, meaningful places, family memories, and digital display. | |
| W002 | 2022 | Noology RW Edits Noology RW Edits.docx · content/writing/Writing/Noology/ · 6.0 MB | Noology / consciousness writing | This work explores the evolution of thought, consciousness, and collective intelligence, including the philosophical thread Bob remembered around Teilhard de Chardin. It may become the lead theoretical spine for essays about evolution, randomness, and entrepreneurial thinking. | |
| W003 | 2022 | Speed Speed.docx.txt · assets/writing-text/ · 303 KB | Technology / speed project notes | Noology and the Science of Thought One person’s journey to understand the Influence of Technology on Life, and Business Bob Caspe May 19, 22 Note: Sections marked with **** need work – lots of work. The first 100 or so pages are reasonably coherent (I think) but then the last 10 are a disorganized collection of thoughts that need to be weeded and discarded or replanted in their right place. | |
| W004 | 2022 | Entrepreneurial Action V3 Entrepreneurial-Action__Entrepreneurial-Action-V3.docx.txt · assets/writing-text/ · 560 KB | Business / entrepreneurship writing | This is the latest local version of Bob’s entrepreneurship textbook, built around action, uncertainty, selection, and learning rather than tidy prediction. It is core source material for the entrepreneurship education section and should be treated as the main textbook thread. | |
| W005 | 2022 | Starting A Startup V3.1 Entrepreneurial-Action__Starting-A-Startup-V3.1.docx.txt · assets/writing-text/ · 560 KB | Business / entrepreneurship writing | This is a practical startup guide aimed at helping entrepreneurs move from an idea into markets, customers, strategy, and operating choices. It belongs beside Entrepreneurial Action, but as a separate startup-primer thread rather than a newer version of the textbook. | |
| W005A | 2019 | Obesity is Killing Us, But It's Not Why You Think obesity-is-killing-us-but-its-not-why-you-think.html · LinkedIn · published | Essay | This LinkedIn essay argues that obesity should be understood through marketing pressure, gross margin, customer acquisition cost, addiction, sugar, and the social cost of unconstrained advertising rather than merely as individual failure. | HTML |
| W006 | 2018 | Luddite Luddite.docx.txt · assets/writing-text/ · 79 KB | Fiction/screenplay: Future Tense / Luddite | This is fiction/screenplay source material about automation, trucking, and the human collision between old work and new systems. It is the likely source for the “Collisions” trailer idea and should live in the fiction pile. | |
| W007 | 2018 | Adds for book Adds-for-book.docx.txt · assets/writing-text/ · 38 KB | Article / draft | Do You own your stuff, or does it own you? I was amazed at how much glassware we had collected in forty years of marriage. | |
| W008 | 2017 | Retirement 6 Retirement 6.docx · content/writing/organized/Personal and Memoir/ · 14.7 MB | Personal / memoir writing | This appears to be the latest retirement essay draft in the organized writing folder. It should replace the older Retirement drafts in the inventory until the memoir and personal-writing pile is reviewed more closely. | |
| W009 | 2016 | Business Life Business-Life.docx.txt · assets/writing-text/ · 69 KB | Business / entrepreneurship writing | This is a reflective business essay about what a working life in companies, products, and entrepreneurship teaches over time. It should be reviewed for passages that connect Bob’s career experience to mentoring and teaching. | |
| W010 | 2013 | the effects of audio and video on bonding the-effects-of-audio-and-video-on-bonding.docx.txt · assets/writing-text/ · 61 KB | Article / draft | • HOME • ABOUT • ISSUES • LOGIN • SEARCH • AUTHORS • SUBMISSIONS • NEWSLETTER Home > Vol 7, No 2 (2013) > The effects of text, audio, video, and in-person communication on... The effects of text, audio, video, and in-person communication on bonding between friends. | |
| W011 | 2011 | The fifth generation of imaging The-fifth-generation-of-imaging.docx.txt · assets/writing-text/ · 13 KB | Article / draft | This technology piece reflects Bob’s long experience in imaging, signal processing, and the transition from specialized hardware to more intelligent systems. It is useful background for the CV and technology history sections. | |
| W012 | 2011 | SSRN id2595096 article on the effect of social media on the arab spring SSRN-id2595096-article-on-the-effect-of-social-media-on-the-arab-spring.pdf.txt · assets/writing-text/ · 91 KB | Article / draft | Opening Closed Regimes What Was the Role of Social Media During the Arab Spring? Howard, University of Washington Aiden Duffy, University of Washington Deen Freelon, American University Muzammil Hussain, University of Washington Will Mari, University of Washington Marwa Mazaid, University of Washington Working Paper 2011. | |
| W013 | 1989 | reference articles reference-articles.docx.txt · assets/writing-text/ · 71 KB | Article / draft | Menu Bloomberg News American retirees are healthier and wealthier than ever. A new report throws a little doubt on that notion. | |
| W014 | 1947 | Interview with Kip and Lou Arsenault Interview-with-Kip-and-Lou-Arsenault.docx.txt · assets/writing-text/ · 23 KB | Article / draft | Interview with Kip and Lou Arsenault A little background on the two of you. Where you lived for the past 30 to 40 years. | |
| W015 | Undated | A Brief History of Consumerism 11 16 18 A-Brief-History-of-Consumerism-11-16-18.pdf.txt · assets/writing-text/ · 29 KB | Business/society essay | This essay looks at consumerism as a social and economic force rather than merely a habit of buying things. It can support the business-writing archive by connecting markets, behavior, and culture. | |
| W016 | Undated | Addiction Addiction.docx.txt · assets/writing-text/ · 16 KB | Article / draft | Addiction & Commerce Bob Caspe Some see addiction as a flaw, some as a weakness, or a sickness. I see it differently, I see it as perfection, the current state of millions of years of evolution that has tweaked and adjusted our brains to make us better at survival. | |
| W017 | Undated | American Healthcare American-Healthcare.docx.txt · assets/writing-text/ · 8.8 KB | Social/political essay | American Healthcare The current healthcare bill is not about providing or changing healthcare, it is about cutting taxes. Without major changes to our healthcare provision system, the cost of healthcare isn’t going to be reduced overall for the country. | |
| W018 | Undated | bent rings Musings__bent-rings.doc.txt · assets/writing-text/ · 2.0 KB | Article / draft | Although it's not automotive, that hasn't stopped you in the past and this is a true story.. For years, my wife's wedding ring would mysteriously appear bent at the bottom (the part closest to her palm) which would flatten. | |
| W019 | Undated | bob s story Musings__bob-s-story.doc.txt · assets/writing-text/ · 2.5 KB | Article / draft | Bob Caspe This is now my fifty first year. And for more than 30 years, a particular memory has lingered with me. | |
| W020 | Undated | Book Proposal Book-Proposal.docx.txt · assets/writing-text/ · 3.0 KB | Article / draft | Book Proposal The currently popular entrepreneurial fad is “Fail Fast. ” The proposed book offers a contrarian view. | |
| W021 | Undated | charts charts.docx.txt · assets/writing-text/ · 11 B | Article / draft | This entry is an inventory item for “charts,” but there was not enough readable text to summarize it confidently. It should be opened directly before deciding whether it belongs in the public writing archive. | |
| W022 | Undated | Chord Chart Musings__Chord-Chart.doc.txt · assets/writing-text/ · 171 B | Article / draft | This entry is an inventory item for “Musings / Chord Chart,” but there was not enough readable text to summarize it confidently. It should be opened directly before deciding whether it belongs in the public writing archive. | |
| W023 | Undated | codex admin diagnostics codex-admin-diagnostics.html · ./ · 12 KB | Codex field note | These are field notes from using Codex on live web software rather than toy demos. They should be edited into practical articles about safe diagnostics, email delivery, debugging workflows, and the habits needed when working with AI coding tools. | |
| W024 | Undated | codex development lessons codex-development-lessons.html · ./ · 12 KB | Codex field note | These are field notes from using Codex on live web software rather than toy demos. They should be edited into practical articles about safe diagnostics, email delivery, debugging workflows, and the habits needed when working with AI coding tools. | |
| W025 | Undated | codex email delivery codex-email-delivery.html · ./ · 11 KB | Codex field note | These are field notes from using Codex on live web software rather than toy demos. They should be edited into practical articles about safe diagnostics, email delivery, debugging workflows, and the habits needed when working with AI coding tools. | |
| W026 | Undated | codex field notes codex-field-notes.html · ./ · 9.4 KB | Codex field note | These are field notes from using Codex on live web software rather than toy demos. They should be edited into practical articles about safe diagnostics, email delivery, debugging workflows, and the habits needed when working with AI coding tools. | |
| W027 | Undated | conservative vs liberal conservative-vs-liberal.docx.txt · assets/writing-text/ · 15 KB | Article / draft | If one begins with the assumption that “liberals” embrace change, and a “conservatives” lean in the direction of keeping the status quo, then it’s clear that over the long arc of history, while there have been setbacks, change has won. We no longer accept slavery or the subjugation of minorities, women can vote, work and serve in the military, the rights of members of the LGBT community are protected, and so on. | |
| W028 | Undated | Copy of Resurrection 2 Google Docs Resurrection__Copy-of-Resurrection-2---Google-Docs.pdf.txt · assets/writing-text/ · 291 KB | Fiction | This is fiction centered on AI, memory, love, and the emotional consequences of technology. It belongs as a major creative-writing project rather than as a short essay. | |
| W029 | Undated | Corporate Innovation Corporate-Innovation.docx.txt · assets/writing-text/ · 26 KB | Article / draft | This piece examines why large companies struggle to innovate and how organizational incentives collide with new ideas. It fits naturally beside the entrepreneurship material as the “inside the corporation” side of the problem. | |
| W030 | Undated | correlations.12yr consciousness__correlations.12yr.pdf.txt · assets/writing-text/ · 68 KB | Noology / consciousness writing | Correlations of Random Binary Sequences with Pre-Stated Operator Intention: A Review of a 12-Year Program1 R. More than 1000 experimental series, employing four different categories of random devices and several distinctive protocols, show comparable magnitudes of anomalous mean shifts from chance expectation, with similar distribution structures. | |
| W031 | Undated | discussion of the future discussion-of-the-future.docx.txt · assets/writing-text/ · 773 B | Article / draft | Off-shore manufacturing, automation and consolidation of retail distribution have moved profits from individual business owners to larger corporations and their management staffs. This should be reviewed as a candidate for the writing archive and grouped by its main theme before publication. | |
| W032 | Undated | Herbert Herbert.docx.txt · assets/writing-text/ · 1.7 KB | Article / draft | Herbert’s book Schizophrenia combined with my theory of how thoughts or voices are started in your brain. The radio show about schizophrenics learning to live with those voices, the separation of egos as being the difference. | |
| W033 | Undated | larry notes larry-notes.docx.txt · assets/writing-text/ · 22 KB | Article / draft | You know, She said I said, well, blah, blah, blah, Pretty good Tag’s grandfather founded the biz. His dad, ray politically connected, outgoing, like a cartoon character, wore plads with stripes, straw hat, got away with it, good old boy. | |
| W034 | Undated | Lymecam Lymecam.docx.txt · assets/writing-text/ · 16 KB | Article / draft | Lymecam A digital camera-based device for the identification of spirochetes in the blood Introduction By Helen Thomson A new test can distinguish between Lyme disease and another tick-borne disease with nearly identical symptoms. This could enable doctors to treat the condition much sooner, preventing its debilitating symptoms from setting in. | |
| W035 | Undated | New Product Ideas Musings__New-Product-Ideas.doc.txt · assets/writing-text/ · 449 B | Article / draft | This entry is an inventory item for “Musings / New Product Ideas,” but there was not enough readable text to summarize it confidently. It should be opened directly before deciding whether it belongs in the public writing archive. | |
| W036 | Undated | Portfolio Management Portfolio-Management.docx.txt · assets/writing-text/ · 4.0 KB | Article / draft | Portfolio Management I’m an engineer and as such I like to take things apart and understand their insides. However, for my entire career, I’ve left the management of my portfolio to others because I found it simply too inscrutable. | |
| W037 | Undated | resurrection resurrection.html · ./ · 11 KB | Fiction | This is fiction centered on AI, memory, love, and the emotional consequences of technology. It belongs as a major creative-writing project rather than as a short essay. | |
| W038 | Undated | saas to oaas saas-to-oaas.html · ./ · 12 KB | Website page | This article argues that AI changes the software business from selling tools to selling outcomes. It is one of the newer public business essays and belongs near the AI and entrepreneurship writing. | |
| W039 | Undated | The Accidental Entrepreneur The-Accidental-Entrepreneur.docx.txt · assets/writing-text/ · 1.8 KB | Business / entrepreneurship writing | This is an autobiographical fiction/business narrative about entrepreneurship as something discovered through events, choices, and collisions rather than a perfectly planned career. It may be an early form of the truck-driver story that later became screenplay material. | |
| W040 | Undated | The case for xenophobia The-case-for-xenophobia.docx.txt · assets/writing-text/ · 8.6 KB | Social/political essay | The case for and against xenophobia “Xenophobia – fear or hatred of foreigners” Merriam-Webster definition When trying to understand Brexit or Trump, it may be worthwhile to examine more closely the concept of xenophobia and its potential evolutionary roots, and consequences. Even Darwin was confounded by the existence of selflessness in species. | |
| W041 | Undated | The definition of Woke The-definition-of-Woke.docx.txt · assets/writing-text/ · 4.8 KB | Social/political essay | The definition of Woke To define a word, one should do so from the perspective of the speaker, not the listener. What idea are they trying to convey. | |
| W042 | Undated | Things that I like to do Things-that-I-like-to-do.docx.txt · assets/writing-text/ · 594 B | Article / draft | This entry is an inventory item for “Things that I like to do,” but there was not enough readable text to summarize it confidently. It should be opened directly before deciding whether it belongs in the public writing archive. | |
| W043 | Undated | Understanding the Trade War Understanding-the-Trade-War.docx.txt · assets/writing-text/ · 904 B | Article / draft | Understanding the Trade War Trump’s Trade War In a recent Frontline Report on PBS, the journalists report that there were two factions within the White House arguing each side of the desirability of a trade war with China. On one side, Bannon, and others could be described as Nationalists and were in favor of raising import tariffs on Chinese goods for the purpose of rebuilding the US manufacturing base that has been exported overseas. | |
| W044 | Undated | WELFARE Musings__WELFARE.DOC.txt · assets/writing-text/ · 2.2 KB | Article / draft | Replacement of the Welfare system Let me propose a complete overhaul of our current welfare system based upon a number of objectives that reach beyond just saving money. First we completely scrap the current system. | |
| W045 | Undated | What kind of country do we really want What-kind-of-country-do-we-really-want.docx.txt · assets/writing-text/ · 4.9 KB | Social/political essay | What kind of country do we really want? Donald Trump and Obama draw pictures of very different countries that they would like to see built. | |
| W046 | Undated | What to do about gun violence What-to-do-about-gun-violence.docx.txt · assets/writing-text/ · 2.2 KB | Social/political essay | It is the confluence of these that eventually causes the overall system to fail. Otherwise, backup and safety systems are successful at preventing a disaster. | |
| W047 | 2017 | Why your first sales person is failing 2017-08-10-why-your-first-sales-person-is-failing.md · content/extracted/blog/ · 3.5 KB | Essay | “Why your first sales person is failing” is an essay about startups often will find that their first sales person, or team, isn't successful. Here's an analysis that can help explain why. It should be reviewed as part of the business, innovation, teaching, or social-commentary archive depending on how strongly the argument still feels current. | |
| W048 | 2017 | It's the Marketing, Stupid. 2017-07-08-its-the-marketing-stupid.md · content/extracted/blog/ · 5.8 KB | Essay | “It's the Marketing, Stupid. ” is an essay about frequently, entrepreneurs believe that investments in sales can bring them to profitability but the problem often lies in ineffective marketing and strategy. It should be reviewed as part of the business, innovation, teaching, or social-commentary archive depending on how strongly the argument still feels current. | |
| W049 | 2017 | Treating ISIS like an Infection 2017-06-04-treating-isis-like-an-infection.md · content/extracted/blog/ · 4.9 KB | Essay | “Treating ISIS like an Infection” is an essay about in the book that I'm working on, one of my primary themes is that ideas behave just like viruses or bacteria in a number of important ways. As well, the differences in pathways that they use and the impact of technology on those pathways. It should be reviewed as part of the business, innovation, teaching, or social-commentary archive depending on how strongly the argument still feels current. | |
| W050 | 2016 | Technology Drives Wealth Division 2016-12-10-technology-drives-wealthdivision.md · content/extracted/blog/ · 6.3 KB | Essay | “Technology Drives Wealth Division” is an essay about for the last year I have been working on a book that discusses the method by which innovation occurs. My observation is that the rules of evolution, as defined by Darwin to include heredity, random mixing, and environmental pressures. It should be reviewed as part of the business, innovation, teaching, or social-commentary archive depending on how strongly the argument still feels current. | |
| W050A | 2016 | Startup Channel-Partner Strategies startup-channel-partner-strategies.html · LinkedIn · published | Essay | This LinkedIn essay explains how a startup can lower customer-acquisition risk by finding a larger partner with brand equity, distribution, and a strategic reason to carry the startup's product. | HTML |
| W051 | 2016 | Entrepreneurial Priorities 2016-11-19-entrepreneurial-priorities.md · content/extracted/blog/ · 2.4 KB | Essay | “Entrepreneurial Priorities” is an essay about i have been helping lots of startups and I often see common problems that are shared by many. Probably the most frequent problem is that of inadequate **focus**, that in turn, is related to understanding and selecting the right priority. It should be reviewed as part of the business, innovation, teaching, or social-commentary archive depending on how strongly the argument still feels current. | |
| W052 | 2016 | Corporate Innovation Models 2016-09-02-corporate-innovation-models.md · content/extracted/blog/ · 16 KB | Essay | This piece examines why large companies struggle to innovate and how organizational incentives collide with new ideas. It fits naturally beside the entrepreneurship material as the “inside the corporation” side of the problem. | |
| W053 | 2015 | Cancer May be Life's Panic Button 2015-04-27-cancer-may-be-lifes-panic-button.md · content/extracted/blog/ · 5.6 KB | Essay | “Cancer May be Life's Panic Button” is an essay about ken Burns' documentary on Cancer \"the Emperor of all Maladies,\" was extraordinary, especially for me because most of the documented battle has occurred over my lifetime allowing me to closely identify with its twists and turns. And, with. It should be reviewed as part of the business, innovation, teaching, or social-commentary archive depending on how strongly the argument still feels current. | |
| W054 | 2015 | Why Second Start-ups Often Fail 2015-04-22-why-second-start-ups-often-fail.md · content/extracted/blog/ · 6.1 KB | Essay | “Why Second Start-ups Often Fail” is an essay about many times I have observed successful entrepreneurs who have built great companies and yet failed at their next start-up or product. The list is long. But, I think that I understand at least three good reasons why. It should be reviewed as part of the business, innovation, teaching, or social-commentary archive depending on how strongly the argument still feels current. | |
| W055 | 2015 | Entrepreneurship 101 - Building a New Category 2015-04-19-entrepreneurship-101-building-a-new-category.md · content/extracted/blog/ · 6.8 KB | Essay | “Entrepreneurship 101 - Building a New Category” is an essay about this post is a continuation of a prior post in which I discussed launching a new product into a pre-existing category. In this post I will explore the issues related to building a New-Category. In my prior post I emphasized the importance. It should be reviewed as part of the business, innovation, teaching, or social-commentary archive depending on how strongly the argument still feels current. | |
| W056 | 2015 | Certified Made by Humans 2015-04-15-certified-made-by-humans.md · content/extracted/blog/ · 5.0 KB | Essay | “Certified Made by Humans” is an essay about i just attended a conference on Robotics and was introduced to the concept of low-cost robots, like Baxter, that can replace low cost people, in highly repetitive jobs. The sales people from this industry describe these jobs as. It should be reviewed as part of the business, innovation, teaching, or social-commentary archive depending on how strongly the argument still feels current. | |
| W057 | 2015 | Start-up Marketing 101 2015-04-08-start-up-marketing-category-1.md · content/extracted/blog/ · 7.4 KB | Essay | “Start-up Marketing 101” is an essay about for Start-ups, the challenge of marketing (and sales) is paramount to their success. Figuring out how to get your product noticed, and then purchased by customers is the single largest challenge that you will face.As I've said in prior. It should be reviewed as part of the business, innovation, teaching, or social-commentary archive depending on how strongly the argument still feels current. | |
| W058 | 2015 | The Impact of Raising Wages 2015-04-06-the-impact-of-raising-wages.md · content/extracted/blog/ · 5.6 KB | Essay | “The Impact of Raising Wages” is an essay about mcDonald's has announced a raise in pay of at least $1 over the local minimum wage for some of their 90,000 workers, costing McDonald's about $100M or 2% of their 2014 profits of $4.7B possibly setting a trend to be followed by their. It should be reviewed as part of the business, innovation, teaching, or social-commentary archive depending on how strongly the argument still feels current. | |
| W059 | 2015 | What Kills Most Start-ups? 2015-04-04-what-kills-most-start-ups.md · content/extracted/blog/ · 5.1 KB | Essay | “What Kills Most Start-ups?” is an essay about i have read thousands of business plans and talked to thousands of start-ups all over the world. I have visited countless incubators filled with energetic, talented, and enthusiastic entrepreneurs who are working feverishly to change the. It should be reviewed as part of the business, innovation, teaching, or social-commentary archive depending on how strongly the argument still feels current. | |
| W060 | 2015 | American Idol is like Shark Tank 2015-03-31-american-idol-is-like-shark-tank.md · content/extracted/blog/ · 4.8 KB | Essay | “American Idol is like Shark Tank” is an essay about when teaching entrepreneurial business models, I have frequently commented on my fascination with what I believe to be the real business model of “American Idol” a popular (although less so now) American television program. Here’s my take. It should be reviewed as part of the business, innovation, teaching, or social-commentary archive depending on how strongly the argument still feels current. | |
| W061 | 2015 | An apple, film and a Swiss Watch 2015-03-31-an-apple-film-and-a-swiss-watch.md · content/extracted/blog/ · 5.9 KB | Essay | “An apple, film and a Swiss Watch” is an essay about there's a lesson to learn from studying Apple and Kodak and then thinking about how to apply it to the Swiss Watch Industry.\n\nMy two kids don't wear watches. They use their phones for the functions of timekeeping. It's kind of like a. It should be reviewed as part of the business, innovation, teaching, or social-commentary archive depending on how strongly the argument still feels current. | |
| W062 | 2015 | Businosauras Rex 2015-03-31-businosauras-rex.md · content/extracted/blog/ · 4.6 KB | Essay | “Businosauras Rex” is an essay about you think you're pretty big, eh? Well, things are about to change.\n\nDarwin, in his book \"On the Origin of Species\" describes the concept of evolution which involves the success of organisms that adapt most effectively to their. It should be reviewed as part of the business, innovation, teaching, or social-commentary archive depending on how strongly the argument still feels current. | |
| W063 | 2015 | The Economy may be Like Heavy Traffic 2015-03-31-the-economy-may-be-like-heavy-traffic.md · content/extracted/blog/ · 4.3 KB | Essay | “The Economy may be Like Heavy Traffic” is an essay about if you're driving in heavy traffic and you see a red light ahead, you and the drivers in front of you all brake together and come to a stop (unless you're from Boston). But, when the the light turns green each car waits for the car in. It should be reviewed as part of the business, innovation, teaching, or social-commentary archive depending on how strongly the argument still feels current. | |
| W064 | 2015 | The Sharing Economy? 2015-03-31-the-sharing-economy.md · content/extracted/blog/ · 5.2 KB | Essay | “The Sharing Economy?” is an essay about i’ll bet that you think that you know what UBER is: It’s an example of our new “sharing economy.” By sharing the use of the driver’s car, he offers you a better way to get a cheaper ride as compared to a taxi and it’s way more convenient. It should be reviewed as part of the business, innovation, teaching, or social-commentary archive depending on how strongly the argument still feels current. | |
| W065 | 2015 | Venture Capital & Quantum Physics 2015-03-31-venture-capital-quantum-physics.md · content/extracted/blog/ · 4.0 KB | Essay | “Venture Capital & Quantum Physics” is an essay about when sir Isaac Newton published his Principia in 1687 he defined laws of motion and gravity that described a world that was wonderfully predictable. Every action had a reaction, the motion of every body, regardless of size, could be. It should be reviewed as part of the business, innovation, teaching, or social-commentary archive depending on how strongly the argument still feels current. | |
| W066 | 2015 | Wanna be an Inventor 2015-03-31-wanna-be-an-inventor.md · content/extracted/blog/ · 5.2 KB | Essay | “Wanna be an Inventor” is an essay about when I was a kid I thought that it would have been more fun to have lived in the time of Edison. Back then there were lots of uninvented things and plenty of opportunity. But right now, I feel that for good reasons, which I'll describe,. It should be reviewed as part of the business, innovation, teaching, or social-commentary archive depending on how strongly the argument still feels current. | |
| W067 | 2014 | Innovating Innovation 2014-12-31-innovating-innovation.md · content/extracted/blog/ · 21 KB | Essay | “Innovating Innovation” is an essay about i2 stands for the “Innovating Innovation.” The IEC is committed to the development and sharing of new methodologies for innovation that can be used successfully by companies as they seek to improve their business models and processes for. It should be reviewed as part of the business, innovation, teaching, or social-commentary archive depending on how strongly the argument still feels current. | |
| W068 | 2014 | The Never Ending Battle Between Labor and Management 2014-06-26-the-never-ending-battle-between-labor-and-management.md · content/extracted/blog/ · 4.2 KB | Essay | “The Never Ending Battle Between Labor and Management” is an essay about over the last five hundred years of the Industrial Revolution, we have seen power shift back and forth between Labor and Management. From the late 1700s until today, there has been a battle for power between management and labor often. It should be reviewed as part of the business, innovation, teaching, or social-commentary archive depending on how strongly the argument still feels current. | |
| W069 | 2014 | Incubators are Failing, Incubators are Failing 2014-02-14-incubators-are-failing-incubators-are-failing.md · content/extracted/blog/ · 2.7 KB | Essay | “Incubators are Failing, Incubators are Failing” is an essay about it seems like I get at least one call a week from a former student or business associate who tells me that their local entrepreneurship incubator is failing. I think that I know why. About a year ago I visited the Cambridge Innovation. It should be reviewed as part of the business, innovation, teaching, or social-commentary archive depending on how strongly the argument still feels current. | |
| W070 | 2013 | Should we Bomb Syria? 2013-09-06-should-we-bomb-syria.md · content/extracted/blog/ · 4.4 KB | Essay | “Should we Bomb Syria?” is an essay about i have two proposals for how to deal with Syria and in fact, every other country which is engaged in a civil war. First, let's focus on Syria.\n\nAt the end of World War I everybody got together and decided that chemical weapons were a bad. It should be reviewed as part of the business, innovation, teaching, or social-commentary archive depending on how strongly the argument still feels current. | |
| W071 | 2013 | Darwin and Business 2013-07-30-darwin-and-business.md · content/extracted/blog/ · 2.8 KB | Essay | “Darwin and Business” is an essay about one of my favorite lectures covers the topic of Darwin and Business. The idea goes like this: Darwin discovered the concept of evolution which involves the success of organisms that adapt most effectively to their environment. Fundamental. It should be reviewed as part of the business, innovation, teaching, or social-commentary archive depending on how strongly the argument still feels current. | |
| W072 | 2013 | The Lessons from Martin and Zimmerman 2013-07-15-the-lessons-from-martin-and-zimmerman.md · content/extracted/blog/ · 3.6 KB | Essay | “The Lessons from Martin and Zimmerman” is an essay about what can actually be learned from watching this unfortunate case unfold. I have some opinions: It is likely that Zimmerman created a confrontation where one was unnecessary. The police were on their way, and as we know, Martin was innocent. It should be reviewed as part of the business, innovation, teaching, or social-commentary archive depending on how strongly the argument still feels current. | |
| W073 | 2013 | The Problem with Alternative Medicine 2013-07-10-the-problem-with-alternative-medicine.md · content/extracted/blog/ · 6.4 KB | Essay | “The Problem with Alternative Medicine” is an essay about my dearest friend is an acupuncturist and herbalist and I have listened to hours of discourse from him on the merits of these and other alternative approaches to medicine and the evils of conventional medicine. Most recently, a new book. It should be reviewed as part of the business, innovation, teaching, or social-commentary archive depending on how strongly the argument still feels current. | |
| W074 | 2013 | Be afraid, really afraid 2013-07-08-be-afraid-really-afraid.md · content/extracted/blog/ · 3.7 KB | Essay | “Be afraid, really afraid” is an essay about edward Snowden: hero or villain? I can guarantee your safety from villains. It will cost a few trillion dollars, but it's worth it, right? Here's how it works. Every transaction that you do will be monitored by cameras, GPS trackers, and. It should be reviewed as part of the business, innovation, teaching, or social-commentary archive depending on how strongly the argument still feels current. | |
| W075 | 2012 | Vestigial 2012-07-28-vestigial.md · content/extracted/blog/ · 9.5 KB | Essay | “Vestigial” is an essay about vestigial: when, through an evolutionary process a part of an organism or organization no longer serves a useful purpose, we refer to it as being vestigial. For example, the appendix is a vestigial organ, except that like in many other. It should be reviewed as part of the business, innovation, teaching, or social-commentary archive depending on how strongly the argument still feels current. | |
| W076 | 2012 | Currently posting on Reddit 2012-06-12-currently-posting-on-reddit.md · content/extracted/blog/ · 489 B | Essay | “Currently posting on Reddit” is an essay about i'm currently answering questions on AMA on Reddit! Come ask me about your business. Here's the link:. It should be reviewed as part of the business, innovation, teaching, or social-commentary archive depending on how strongly the argument still feels current. | |
| W077 | 2012 | Illegal Immigrants 2012-04-26-illegal-immigrants.md · content/extracted/blog/ · 7.4 KB | Essay | “Illegal Immigrants” is an essay about there’s a lot of stuff in the news right now about the testing of Arizona’s 2010 law in the Supreme Court which allows state police to stop and detain undocumented people, like maybe you or me, out for a jog without our driver’s license,. It should be reviewed as part of the business, innovation, teaching, or social-commentary archive depending on how strongly the argument still feels current. | |
| W078 | 2011 | Interview Article in America Economia magazine in Latin America 2011-12-30-interview-article-in-america-economia-magazine-in-latin-america.md · content/extracted/blog/ · 404 B | Essay | This entry is an inventory item for “interview article in america economia magazine in latin america,” but there was not enough readable text to summarize it confidently. It should be opened directly before deciding whether it belongs in the public writing archive. | |
| W079 | 2011 | Two Questions for the Entrepreneur 2011-12-26-two-questions-for-the-entrepreneur.md · content/extracted/blog/ · 2.2 KB | Essay | “Two Questions for the Entrepreneur” is an essay about i have two questions that I would like to pose to the entrepreneurs out there and I'm interested in your responses. Question 1 -\n\nAssume that you have a product idea and you have found a perfect customer. Your customer is a large company. It should be reviewed as part of the business, innovation, teaching, or social-commentary archive depending on how strongly the argument still feels current. | |
| W080 | 2011 | Fix it Later 2011-12-18-fix-it-later.md · content/extracted/blog/ · 8.1 KB | Essay | “Fix it Later” is an essay about i had the pleasure last weekend of spending my time with a generous and warm family from Brazil. They invited me to their beach home and everything, including the weather, was marvelous. My hosts were Mark and his wife, Roberta Lund. Mark. It should be reviewed as part of the business, innovation, teaching, or social-commentary archive depending on how strongly the argument still feels current. | |
| W081 | 2011 | Solving the world economic crisis 2011-09-03-solving-the-world-economic-crisis.md · content/extracted/blog/ · 9.3 KB | Essay | It seems like a tall order, solving the world economic problems, and, given that so many have tried unsuccessfully, I thought that it wouldn’t hurt for me to take a crack at it. I’ve actually gotten a few phone calls from people who asked me: “Bob, you work at Babson, a business school, right? | |
| W082 | 2011 | The Fifth Generation of Digital Imaging 2011-01-22-the-fifth-generation-of-digital-imaging.md · content/extracted/blog/ · 13 KB | Essay | This technology piece reflects Bob’s long experience in imaging, signal processing, and the transition from specialized hardware to more intelligent systems. It is useful background for the CV and technology history sections. | |
| W083 | 2010 | Business Evolution 2010-08-25-business-evolution.md · content/extracted/blog/ · 6.0 KB | Essay | During the Jurassic period, some 150 to 200 million years ago, large dinosaurs ruled the land, and like all other life forms on this planet, they share a common cell structure that includes a genome which contains the entirety of each organism’s hereditary information. This tiny data storage bank therefore defines the organization of biomass into complex organisms and frequently into social structures involving multiple organisms. | |
| W084 | 2010 | The latest Supreme Court Decision 2010-01-30-the-latest-supreme-court-decision.md · content/extracted/blog/ · 4.9 KB | Essay | Like many others who noticed the latest Supreme Court decision concerning the ability of corporations to fund political campaigns I wonder if this was good for our country? Some time ago, I read a book called: _Why Socrates Died? | |
| W085 | 2009 | Entrepreneurship and Chess 2009-06-16-entrepreneurship-and-chess.md · content/extracted/blog/ · 2.2 KB | Essay | I continue my thinking about the value of business education, the influence of random events and the value of business planning on entrepreneurial endeavors. Running a small business can be compared to playing chess. | |
| W086 | 2009 | I don’t speak the language 2009-05-28-i-dont-speak-the-language.md · content/extracted/blog/ · 2.7 KB | Essay | Harpaz, columnist for the Associated Press, when referring to her teenage kids wrote: “I do not know the customs and cannot speak the language. ” In his book called “The Singularity,” Ray Kurzweil talks about the eventual merger of humans and machines through a process of innovation that is accelerating. | |
| W087 | 2009 | My Thoughts about Teaching Business to MBAs 2009-05-28-my-thoughts-about-teaching-business-to-mbas.md · content/extracted/blog/ · 18 KB | Essay | # Teaching Business to MBAs When I was in school, quite a long time ago, and studying engineering, I was struck by how “out of date” the technology that my school had seemed to be. My electronics courses were focused on DC motors and vacuum tubes instead of transistors and computers. | |
| W088 | 2009 | The Parental Voice and Entrepreneurship 2009-05-26-the-parental-voice-and-entrepreneurship.md · content/extracted/blog/ · 3.8 KB | Essay | In his book “Predictably Irrational,” Dan Ariely, a professor at MIT’s Sloan school describes an experiment that he performed. He gave three classes three different choices regarding their required assignments for class. | |
| W089 | 2009 | A Random Walk through Business or Let’s redo the Venture Capital Industry 2009-03-13-a-random-walk-through-business-or-lets-redo-the-venture-capital-industry.md · content/extracted/blog/ · 5.6 KB | Essay | “The Drunkard’s Walk” by Leonard Mlodinow has had a significant influence on my understanding of small business and entrepreneurship. That phrase has now become the catchphrase of my current MBA Marketing class as everyone is beginning to internalize what its real meaning is. | |
| W090 | 2009 | Comments on the economy, weather and gasoline. 2009-03-12-comments-on-the-economy-weather-and-gasoline.md · content/extracted/blog/ · 4.9 KB | Essay | I just finished reading Outliers and a few interesting points stuck with me, one of which was that in days of yore our ancestors (in the west) didn’t work anywhere near as hard as we do. They might spend only a few hours a day at work, and then hang for the rest of the day. | |
| W091 | 2009 | My Anguilla Reading List 2009-01-30-my-anguilla-reading-list.md · content/extracted/blog/ · 1.6 KB | Essay | I’ve just spent 5 weeks in Anguilla with my wife and had a long desired opportunity to spend more time reading. Here’s my reading list: John Steinbeck’s “The Grapes of Wrath” It’s about time that I read this classic. |