Public Policy

Google to build gigabit network for Kansas City to spur build out

April 2, 2011

Google has announced that it’s going to build a gigabit fiber network to nearly every home in Kansas City. See Google’s blog for more details. Consumer internet lines today are typically less than 20 megabits per second. That’s a cap, meaning your actual speed will be much less. Also remember that a bit is different [...]

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Opting Out of the Yellow Pages, Who Still Uses Phone Books?

February 2, 2011

The Yellow Pages company has finally learned something, people don’t want their product. It’s forcefully delivered, dumped in our yards, doorsteps, or anywhere the delivery guy can find access. In this digital age, a hard copy Yellow Book is all but obsolete. However, finding bail bonds, pawn shops, and other seedy establishments still is best [...]

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Deceptions of the Food Industry, Blueberries Aren’t Really Blueberries

January 28, 2011

This really makes me angry. These products create a perception to consumers that their blueberries really are blueberries. Instead, it’s a combination of oils, sugars, coloring. Unfortunately, what’s the alternative? Ban these products and leave people with no alternative? The natural food products with real blueberries are expensive. A large family on a small income [...]

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Greed is Good

January 15, 2011

Gordon Gekko is a fictional character. For most, he’s known for his Greed is Good speech. However, he never literally says that greed IS good. Below is the speech in its entirety. It’s a shame to take it out of context and say that greed is good. Instead, I believe that Mr. Gekko is pointing [...]

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Changing the Education Paradigm, Moving Away from the Industrial Model

January 7, 2011

What do you think? This is just a conceptional plead. How do we implement this?

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Home Prices to Continue to Decline – When Will We Reach Equilibrium

January 4, 2011

Photo by gruntzookiIt’s been a long time since I’ve played economist. It really doesn’t take much training because all economists don’t really know how to predict the future. Economics is all about assumptions. As we’re looking to buy a home in Seattle, WA, we’re finding that home prices are still expensive. There’s a big disconnect [...]

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Five Powerful Examples of Crowdsourcing Systems

December 16, 2010

If two heads are better than one, what about a million heads. Crowdsourcing is distributing work to thousands and millions of workers, either for payment or volunteer service. Below are some of my favorite crowd sourcing examples. Amazon Mechanical Turk – Unlike other automated computing sourcing systems, Amazon relies on human beings to perform small [...]

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It’s Monday Morning, Are You Sleep Deprived?

December 13, 2010

I’m currently reading Brain Rules. Rule 7 is “sleep well, think well.” Sleep deprivation costs US businesses more than $100 billion a year. That’s no chump change. Loss of sleep hurts attention, execution function, working memory, mood, quantitative skills, logical reasoning, and even motor dexterity. What if we change the way we work. Rather than [...]

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