Richard Sprague
What little I know about
technology
,
China
,
consumer biology
,
the future
, and more.
Sunday, August 05, 2012
The inevitability of human enhancement
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I watched a TED talk by Juan Enriquez ( Will our kids be a different species?) that wasn’t particularly informative if you’re up to date on...
Saturday, August 04, 2012
Medicine and Anti-Fragility
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Black Swan author Nassim Taleb in his highly-anticipated upcoming book uses the term anti-fragility to describe systems that are the oppos...
Thursday, June 21, 2012
Asymco's Dediu in China
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Horace Dediu's asymco.com (Twitter: @asymco ) is one of the best mobility analysis sites out there, so I was excited about his recent ...
Saturday, June 09, 2012
Calibre for books
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A mazon Kindle has become my main way to buy books, which of course is incredibly liberating because nowwith the Kindle app I can put ever...
Saturday, March 24, 2012
Mike Daisey and the fight to keep people in crummy jobs
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I listened to the riveting This American Life podcast retracting its January episode "The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs", featu...
Saturday, March 17, 2012
The Fat Years [Book]
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China deserves to be number one. That's an unstated premise of this book, which is all the rage among intellectuals and others inter...
Saturday, March 10, 2012
What little we know about China
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An observer from Outer Space might raise eyebrows at the apparently irrational way that Americans pick their Presidents, but at least the pr...
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