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Inside Foxconn #3: Some Dormitories
The current workforce at Foxconn's Longhua site is around 220,000, of whom about one-quarter stay on-site in dormitories. Obviously I didn't see all the dormitories, but I saw some, from inside and...
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Inside Foxconn #4: New Recruits, 'Flying Tiger,' CEO
For previous Foxconn entries, see #1, #2, and #3. All these are offered as look at a generally closed place that looms large in the American imagination about working conditions in China.Screening job...
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Your 12-Dimensional-Chess Strategy Memo for the Debates
There is plenty of guidance on our site, and elsewhere, about what subjects should come up for discussion at tonight's final debate. Please read! But if, after you've tanked up on substance, you find...
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More on 12-Dimensional Chess and the Discombobulation of Mitt Romney
Following an earlier reader assessment of the subtle ways in which Barack Obama may have been trying to rile Mitt Romney -- apart from the quite obvious jibes and challenges he applied in the second...
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Last Debate
I haven't seen any reaction to the debate on Twitter, email, TV commentary, or other things of the sort. Watched this just now with my wife, more or less off the plane from China, and this is the raw...
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They Can't Both Be Right: 'Savvy' Experts vs. Polls
After the first presidential debate, opinion polls showed what most "analysts" were also saying: that Mitt Romney had done well, Barack Obama had done poorly, and what had seemed an insuperable Obama...
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They Can't Both Be Right, Cont.
From Republican friends -- and not-such-friends -- response to this earlier report is, In your dreams! They say that Romney really does have the "clear eyes, full heart, can't lose" momentum behind...
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Inside Foxconn #5: Food
Previously in the series, #1, #2, #3, #4.Here's the context, as a reminder: These are snapshots from a day last week that I spent inside the (notorious) Foxconn Longhua campus, in Shenzhen, China. That...
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Promising Software News: 'Intentional Software' and GTD
Back in 2004 I wrote an article about David Allen, creator of and evangelist for the "Getting Things Done" (GTD) approach to organizing your activities and remaining calm in the chaos of modern life....
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David Allen on How to Fix Your Life
As I mentioned earlier today, I've been writing about and learning from the productivity expert David Allen for nearly a decade. Eight years ago, I wrote a profile of him for the magazine. In our...
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Your Aviation-Porn Video of the Day: Endeavour Over SoCal
For anyone who has not seen this, a truly beautiful extended-play video of the space shuttle Endeavour's final flyover across Southern California last month. It was shot, with impressively smooth...
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Hurricanes Past and Future
We parochially minded East Coasters suddenly have something to think about other than enduring the ads, chatter, bluster, and attacks of the 12 days until the election. We can be distracted through...
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What the Stock Market Shows About the Election -- Maybe
Political lore is full of "laws" and axioms about what's destined to happen this year. There's the Redskins Rule. Short version: Obama had better root for the Redskins, and Romney for the Panthers,...
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An Interview with Chen Guangcheng: 'Be Confident and Speak Out'
Our new issue is on the newsstands and in mailboxes. It is full of interesting articles, plus some new design touches. And so ... subscribe!I have two short items in this November issue, before a long...
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RIP TSWI
When we moved back to Washington DC three years ago, after three years of out the country, naturally we noticed the old TV shows, radio broadcasts, stores, etc we'd been used to that had disappeared --...
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'Can Women Have It All?' A Longer View
My bias here is obvious enough that I barely need to disclose it. I'll just say that I hope you will read a new item up today, in our National Channel, on how this era's "having it all" debate is...
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Post-Hurricane Placeholder
Big picture: Solidarity and support to people in New Jersey, New York, and other places that took the brunt of the storm.Bigger picture: Of course no one can prove that this storm was "caused by"...
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Pre-Election Reading: Wen Stephenson on Climate Self-Censorship
I am still in only shaky post-hurricane connection to the Internet, so here is one update before catching up on a variety of other topics soon:By all means read Wen Stephenson's impassioned essay* in...
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'How Can That Be?' More on the 'They Can't Both Be Right' Saga
Here at blog HQ the Internet is up and running again, so time to work through some overdue items. First, the choice America will make on November 6.It is natural to have deep divisions within the...
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Interim Infrastructure Update: Blackouts, Sullivan vs. Silver
(Please see update below.) Local internet service (and phones and TV service) all went down again five hours ago, just a minute after the previous post. So this is a first-ever...
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