The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
#bigideas I do miss Peter Drucker. I also think often of him, and Frank Lloyd Wright and many others, such as Russell Ackoff (“stop doing the wrong things righter, do the right things”). I use them to remind myself that it takes a quarter-century or more — and generally some cataclysmic failure — before the …
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The Mystery of ISIS Anonymous NYT Review of Books August 13, 2015 Issue Nothing since the triumph of the Vandals in Roman North Africa has seemed so sudden, incomprehensible, and difficult to reverse as the rise of ISIS. None of our analysts, soldiers, diplomats, intelligence officers, politicians, or journalists has yet produced an explanation rich …
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NSA Surveillance May Cost U.S. Tech Companies More than $35 Billion Two years ago, when Edward Snowden exposed the NSA’s massive surveillance machine it didn’t just make Americans distrust the U.S. government—it also impelled foreigners to shy away from U.S.-made technologies. The result appears to be costly. In fact, a new report from the Information …
Cabinet Secretaries Potentially Exposed in OPM Data Breach Union Believes Data Breach Was Worse Than Disclosed U.S. Was Warned of System Open to Cyberattacks
Unthinkable: Brazilian Journalist Mulls Soviet-Style Collapse of US Citing a series of geopolitical, economic and social setbacks faced by the United States since the turn of the century, geopolitical analyst and Sao Paulo Business School Professor Antonio Gelis-Filho argues that global policy planners must prepare to deal with the “improbable, but by all means possible, …
A flaw in the design: The Internet’s founders saw its promise but didn’t foresee users attacking one another The long life of a quick ‘fix’: Internet protocol from 1989 leaves data vulnerable to hijackers
Search Left Out of the Collaborative Economy Honeycomb … I saw a post which pointed me to the Chief Digital Officer Summit and that pointed me to this page with the amazing honeycomb shown below. The title is “Collaborative Economy Honeycomb 2: Watch It Grow” … But what caused me to perk up and pay …
