Month: July 2024

What you may not already know about July 4th

July 3, 2024

Here is a brief excerpt from Jason Serafino‘s superb article published by Dental Floss (June 12, 2024). To read the complete article and check out others, please click here. * * * The Fourth of July is packed with backyard…

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The Singularity Is Nearer: A Book Review by Bob Morris

July 3, 2024

The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI Ray Kurzweil Viking/An Imprint of Penguin Random House (June 2024) We are “on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth.” I recently re-read Vernon Vinge’s…

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Billiant Mistakes, a business classic reviewed by Bob Morris

July 3, 2024

Brilliant Mistakes: Finding Success On the Far Side of Failure Paul J.F. Schoemaker Wharton Digital Press (2012) How and why mistakes “enlarge our range of experience, shrink our ego, and thereby increase the chance of discovery.” The title of this…

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The Geography of Genius: A Book Review by Bob Morris

July 2, 2024

The Geography of Genius: A Search for the World’s Most Creative Places from Ancient Athens to Silicon Valley Eric Weiner Simon & Schuster (2016) This is one of the books I frequently re-read wholly for pleasure, its insights even more…

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