Can Robots Make Us More Human?
November 21, 2017
emotion valued in the future, Geoff Colvin, Humans are Underrated, humans hardwired for empathy, jobs robots could never provide2 Comments
At the retirement center the other day, I inadvertently offended a frail, elderly woman without meaning to. Looking into her eyes, I saw the distress I’d caused and offered her a smile as well as an apology. The smile seemed to have helped. Walking away, I wondered what a robot woul
Continue Reading →Some Answers Require A Human Touch
July 26, 2016
Amazon.com, Geoff Colvin, Knowing the Limits of Machines, Wall Street and the client, when a computer won't do
Want help from Amazon with a purchase or a product? Here’s the customer service number: 1-888-280-4331. May it do you some good. Knowing the number did little for me when I called at the behest of two of my book readers. Both had written reviews for my latest novels, Bal
Continue Reading →The Global Savings Glut And Privitization
June 16, 2016
asset-light industry, Ben Bernanke, Bob Dylan, Dell, Dodd-Frank, Facebook, Geoff Colvin, Google+, Private Desires, Safeway, Sarbanes-Oxley, Uber
As I wrote in an earlier blog, (Blog 5/26/16) the world is awash in personal savings accounts, what Ben Bernanke calls a “global savings glut.” (“Private Desires, by Geoff Colvin, Fortune, June, 2016, pg. 54.) In a recent essay, Geoff Colvin points out this sea of cash is chan
Continue Reading →A New Form Of Capitalism: Where Wall Street And Workers Meet
August 03, 2015
Bill Ackman, Black Rock, Geoff Colvin, Index Funds, Karl Icahn, passive investing, Ram Charan, State Street, The Quiet Giants Take on the Activists, Vanguard
Entrepreneur Warren Buffet, the nation’s second wealthiest man, (Click) was asked what advice he’d give to his wife about investing if he died before her. His reply was she should buy a low cost index fund, preferably from Vanguard. (Click) An Index fund buys and holds stock
Continue Reading →Need For A National Conversation About Money
July 25, 2014
Geoff Colvin, In the Future Will There be Any Jobs Left for People to do?, technology and jobs
Unlike the past when technology eliminated some jobs but created others, the trend in innovation today is toward job elimination. (“In the Future, Will There be Any Work Left for People to do?” by Geoff Colvin, Fortune, June 16, 2014, pgs. 193-200.) According to writer Geoff Col
Continue Reading →A Matter Of Attitude, Not Age
January 29, 2014
"In A Digital Era, Andrew Mason, Dick Harrington, Does Youth Trump Experience?", Geoff Colvin, Groupon, the internet gap between youth and age
Don’t ask me why, but when readers subscribe to my blog, the system ignores the request and sends an email asking for verification. Subscribers who fail to reply eventually write me to ask why my blogs aren’t arriving. In the past, I knew how to fix the problem. Recently, however,
Continue Reading →If the Rich Don’t Think Like Us, They Should Start
April 19, 2013
"American's 400 Richest: Not a Club but a Collective (Really!)", Geoff Colvin, Occupy Wall Street
I keep thinking about Scott Fitzgerald and his remark that the rich don’t think like the rest of us. Unfortunately neither do their sycophants. Geoff Colvin wrote a column in Fortune recently that portrays the Occupy Wall Street movement as a collection of air heads who don’t know
Continue Reading →Firgures Lie and Liars Figure
“Figures lie and liars figure.” That was a favorite aphorism of the man who preceded me as a county commissioner. He used the saying to mock any statistic that displeased him and used it so often that eventually he discredited himself. Still, I agree that statistics are as pliable
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