Anduin is knocking on the door of 71 with a total /played time of around six and a half days.  Playing a Warlock is insanely fun, but much more complicated than playing a Paladin (at least for me).  As a Paladin you have three trees to choose from, and each individual tree will designate you to a ...

Today is one of these days when I can express better than on most other days why I carefully remain on a spot that is common frontier to several seemingly different worlds: business, marketing, technology, psychology, software development, complex adaptive systems, social media... At the end of the ...

He can certainly get information out of Sangala terrorists.  And he can even weave his way through the labyrinth of Senate hearings.  But can he sell you your next car?  That's a good question. Hyundai is moving Ford over, and integrating its brand into 24 in the hope of buildi...

    Anastasia Giddens-Merritt and lab partner Kevin Peña watched the robot they had built and programmed try to hurl a ball over a wall.     The throw, however, was a bit short.     "The robot's arm went all the way down and crashed into t...

Last fall, when I started learning about deliberate practice,  I wanted to read Outliers. I wanted to read Talent is Overrated. I went to Borders, armed with a coupon to buy one of them. I looked first for Outliers, having heard more about Malcolm Gladwell than Geoff Colvin. If I was going to read ...

The services sector is by far the largest in the world’s economy.  Services comprise 64 percent of GDP overall, about twice as large as the GDP of the industrial sector.  The services sector represents over 70 percent of GDP in advanced economies and close to 80 percent in the US....

I was reading Tom Taylor the other morning, and happened across this news item out of Boston: John Hogan, David Field and Peter Smyth meet in Boston for today’s Ad Club “Radio Day.� CBS Radio is also participating in a presentation for the Ad Club that starts with a keynote from Hill Holliday ...

Robert Sutton, a Stanford professor of management science and engineering, offers his advice on a case study in the Harv. Bus. Rev., Vol. 86, March 2009 at 40. His comments enlightened me about the insidious, under-estimated costs of large-scale terminations and the knee-jerk reaction to lop off the...

Jill Thompson posted some more preview art from Beasts of Burden #1 on her blog, including one of my favorite pages from the issue, a silent three-panel affair featuring the main cast searching the woods. There's also a photo of Em and her friend Josie reading Jill's Magic Trixie books at NYCC. I th...

TOLEDO, Ohio — Naama Shafir had all but given up hope of playing college basketball in the United States even though she was clearly good enough. She was the best player in her league in Israel. College coaches noticed her. But she wasn’t willing to give up her religious beliefs. Shafir,...