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The Latest NPR Turmoil
By James FallowsLike Jeff Goldberg, I saw the news of the latest NPR shakeup while on the road. I am in a part of southern China where the internet connection is so shaky I can't even sign onto a VPN...
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LinkedIn, Facebook and How Best to Navigate Online Profiles
By Sriram Gollapalli Let's face it, soon after you meet someone for the first time, nine times out of 10, one of the first things you do includes "googling them" and then forming an immediate first...
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Removing the Stigma From 'Writing Software'
By Keith BlountDouglas Adams came up with the following rules about the way we react to new technologies:1. Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural...
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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Operations Research
By Sanjay SaigalOn Monday, I had pointed to visibility dilemma bedeviling the profession of operations research (OR) thus: ... mentions of OR in the popular press are few and far between. Worse yet,...
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Give a Rocket Scientist a Lift
By Grace Peng Many Americans are not aware of the perilous plight of our nation's scientists. It's not just the lack of jobs or the bureaucratic red tape or the lack of funding for research not related...
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How U.S. Immigration Policy Hurts Skilled Foreign Workers
By Sriram GollapalliI have had the opportunity to meet and work with some very bright foreign nationals in the personal (my wife!), academic, and professional facets of my life. Over the past few...
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Return of the Native
By Sanjay SaigalFellow guest-blogger Sriram Gollapalli writes that the "process to enter the U.S. as a skilled worker can be extremely frustrating, confusing, and inconsistent." That is true. Most...
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Is It Harder to Run a Business in China Than America?
By Liam CaseyThe question I am asked most frequently is "How do you run a business in China?"My answer is always the same--it's just as challenging as it is anywhere else in the world. No more, no...
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1 Billion Customers for Education
By Sanjay SaigalThe sixteenth century universalist poet Kabir captures the high Indian regard for education: गुरु गोबिंद दोऊ खडे, काके लागूं पाये बलिहारी गुरु आप की, गोबिंद दियो मिलाये To whom should I...
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Why Banks Need to Get Faster to Deal With Trade
By Liam CaseyThe supply chain industry enables global commerce, and we all know the world of global commerce is changing rapidly.When we started our business, shipping a finished product from China to...
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The Smiley Curve Has Lost Its Wisdom Teeth
By Liam CaseyIn 2007, James Fallows wrote a defining article about Shenzhen, which covered PCH's business model and the smiley curve concept. "The curve is named for the U-shaped arc of the 1970s-era...
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Useful Words From Indian English, Ctd
By Sanjay Saigal When I wrote about a few Indian English words useful to Americans, I knew I was condemning myself to several d'oh moments. I was right. As soon as the post appeared online, I thought...
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Optimize Your Professional Network With LinkedIn
By Sriram GollapalliIn the widely cited 1983 paper, The Strength of Weak Ties: A Network Theory Revisited (PDF), Mark Granovetter, American sociologist at Stanford University, asserts that "social...
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The Sad Decline of Tech Support
By Grace PengKeith Blount's post about DIY software houses includes this crucial point: "...an important part of the day-to-day running of a software company is, naturally, tech support."This brought...
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Thanks and 再見 (Goodbye)
By Grace PengI would like to thank Jim for the opportunity to share some of my concerns here. I found my co-bloggers a very stimulating bunch. Unfortunately, our family was OBE, (overcome by events)....
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This Past Week
By James FallowsThe news of this past week is out of scale, with the still unfolding human (and technological and economic and probably environmental) catastrophe in Japan making other concerns seem...
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A Word About Our Sponsor
By Parker DonhamI was in my kitchen, slow-boiling frogs for lunch, when Jim Fallows called. Would I do a week's blog duty during his book-finishing hiatus? Of course I would. What an opportunity! No...
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The Meaning of Berlusconi's Mysterious Bandage
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, March 10. Reuters.By Piero GarauROME, Italy -- I normally pose as an architect and urbanist (not these two, me), and I suppose foreign readers might be...
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Is There Really an 'International Society'?
By Sam RoggeveenAs you might have seen from James's introductory post, I want to use this wonderful opportunity to talk about two areas of interest: international relations and political conservatism....
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From Filing Cabinets to Digital Thought
By Shelley Hayduk The way we represent, organize and share our knowledge propels us forward. It can either constrain or extend our abilities to think and create. In 1964, in his groundbreaking new...
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