Archive | August, 2009

Big Businesses and Small Lifespans

15 Aug

Our institutions aren’t what they used to be. Below is a chart of the average lifetime of S&P 500 companies. Perhaps business and technological change are happening so quickly at an increasing (exponential) rate – that big companies can’t respond fast enough – driving turnover among these once large stable companies.

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Link: Exponential Innovation & Institutional Demise | George Benckenstein

Les Paul Explains Multitrack Recording

15 Aug

Les Paul and his wife explain multi-track recording.

I have been interested in multi-track recoding for quite a while. Amusing that this was considered “out there” back in Les’ heyday.

A Visual Guide to Inflation

5 Aug

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Link: Inflation, a Visual Guide | SwiftEconomics.com