Okay... for the sake of this post, we are going to put aside our discussion of the Agile Product Owner. For now, we need to talk about some basic patterns for scaling agile projects. To talk about how we are going to scale, we need to talk about how we are going to organize. We'll pull it all back t...

Paul Brodsky & Lee Quaintance run QB Partners, a private macro-oriented investment fund based in New York. This month we identify the nexus of the current economic problems and propose a solution to fix them. We discuss why we think our proposal would work, why some policy makers probably alread...

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In the next three articles in our series on Using Copywriting for Better SEO and Marketing we will look at how content increases conversions. Each article will focus on a different aspect of improving conversion: stats, content creation, and testing new content. This first article covers the basics ...

I had the privilege of talking to a number of customers, members of the community and reporters last week about our web / cloud technologies.  In those conversations, a few things became clear.  First, there is a ton of interest (in general) about cloud computing with folks wanting to unde...

At the end of a recent discussion (in the comments to this post), Allen and I started to discuss whether quantum computing theory had something to say about the potential for simulating the human mind on a computer. I then read a couple of review articles on quantum computing he referenced. Before g...

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Now even Donald Luskin is sounding apocalyptic. Normally he’s a cheerful, optimistic sort of fellow when it comes to capitalism and the American economy. But after watching the new administration’s ineffectual and damaging responses to the economic crisis, Mr. Luskin offers the opinion that this...