We predict this will be a fantastic E3. Maybe the best ever.
Sure, the reveal of the Xbox One has not been smooth, the Wii U is not selling, and we don’t even know what the PS4 looks like. But we’re not succumbing to the internet hate. All the bellyaching in the hardcore game communities…
(photo courtesy from 3rd Ward)We get asked a lot about woodworking spaces in New York. We’ve visited enough spaces and makers to know that, though not impossible, very few woodworkers work out of Manhattan. No surprises there. We will also tell you that Brooklyn is now home to many
Stand-up comedy is perhaps the most difficult form of public speaking. In normal public speaking, if you give a speech that’s not well received, the audience will just stop paying attention. Stand-up comedians stand on stage telling jokes. When their punch lines fall flat, everyone knows…
"Chaos increases new business. Order increases profits."
— Joel Spira of Lutron
"As Jack Morton had said, if you hadn’t sold anything you hadn’t innovated, and without an affordable price you could never sell anything. So Kelly looked at the transistor and saw the past, and the past was tubes. He thereby intuited the future."
— Jon Gertner, The Idea Factory
"Everyone faces the future with their eyes firmly on the past, and they don’t see what’s going to happen next."
— John Pierce, quoted in The Idea Factory
"He was vain about his intelligence, but not so vain as to consider his own ideas automatically superior to those of his colleagues."
— Jon Gertner, The Idea Factory
A bottle of Château Lafite Rothschild Bordeaux is considered by many to be the world’s greatest wine. In the 17th century, both the British Prime Minister and King Louis XV drank it regularly. In 1855, when Napoleon instructed French wine experts to classify France’s Bordeaux wines, Lafite…
