For Dodgers' interpreter, his job is a thrill beyond words — latimes.com Beautiful story about Kenji Nimura, the LA Dodgers trilingual interpreter. Classic bridge figure makes good tale… (tags: baseball translation bridgefigures xenophilia spanish japanese english) [view entry]

Celebrated legal scholar, intellectual property activist and now congressional reformer Lawrence Lessig has written a provocative and somewhat surprising article in this month’s New Republic. Titled “Against Transparency“, the article questions whether a move towards increasing government transparency – as advocated by President Obama as a candidate and by nonprofit... [view entry]

ESPN – OTL: Seats Of Gold – E-ticket Extremely good piece of sportswriting. Writer spends $1200 to sit in a "Legends seat" at Yankee stadium, uses occasion to explore the economics of Yankees ticket pricing, suggests that the team may have finally "harvested" the golden goose. (tags: sport baseball economy... [view entry]

I’m reading Paul Collier’s controversial new “Wars, Guns and Votes” (NYTimes review), where the brilliant development economist addresses the uncomfortable question, “What if democracy doesn’t bring prosperity to very poor nations?” Collier’s research suggests that autocracies are more likely to protect citizens from political violence up to an income level... [view entry]

I’m in Providence, Rhode Island today speaking at BIF-5 – the Business Innovation Factory’s fifth annual storytelling conference. I’ll be doing my best to blog when not on stage. Melissa Withers, the executive director of Business Innovation Factory, starts her talk thanking three men – our host Saul Kaplan; her... [view entry]

I’m in Providence, Rhode Island today speaking at BIF-5 – the Business Innovation Factory’s fifth annual storytelling conference. I’ll be doing my best to blog when not on stage. Roger Martin of the Rotman School of Management is pretty disturbed by the current state of business education. He quotes the... [view entry]

I’m in Providence, Rhode Island today speaking at BIF-5 – the Business Innovation Factory’s fifth annual storytelling conference. I’ll be doing my best to blog when not on stage. Neri Oxman tells us a story about an art critic visiting Jackson Pollock. Seeing no models or photos in his studio,... [view entry]

I’m in Providence, Rhode Island today speaking at BIF-5 – the Business Innovation Factory’s fifth annual storytelling conference. I’ll be doing my best to blog when not on stage. Bruce Nussbaum from the Parsons School (and formerly of Businessweek) interviews Nestle’s VP of innovation, Helmut Traitler. Traitler was charged with... [view entry]

I’m in Providence, Rhode Island today speaking at BIF-5 – the Business Innovation Factory’s fifth annual storytelling conference. I’ll be doing my best to blog when not on stage. Don Tapscott tells us that the children of the baby boom are the first to be bathed in bits. Their time... [view entry]

I’m in Providence, Rhode Island today speaking at BIF-5 – the Business Innovation Factory’s fifth annual storytelling conference. I’ll be doing my best to blog when not on stage. Jay Rogers is dedicated to transforming the auto industry. He shows us video of stories about the collapse of the US... [view entry]