Justifying Investments with the Capital Budgeting Process
The capital budgeting process involves applying the time value of money concepts to business investment decision making. It is critical towards ensuring that capital is invested into the right projects.
How to be human: the man who was raised by wolves
The long read: Abandoned as a child, Marcos Rodríguez Pantoja survived alone in the wild for 15 years. But living with people proved to be even more difficult
9 Food Markets Around the World We'd Hop on a Plane For
Because food tourism is the best tourism.
It Came From the ’70s: The Story of Your Grandma’s Weird Couch
Futzing around on social media, as one does, I recently stumbled upon a meme that hit close to home. Over a picture-patterned sofa in an autumnal-colored ...
https://thinkinginpublic.org/story/why-on-earth-is-stubbs-bbq-sauce-for-sale-in-a-prague-grocery-store/
The Man Who Walked Backward
When the Great Depression put Plennie Wingo’s bustling Abilene cafe out of business, he tried to find fame, fortune, and a sense of meaning the only way he knew how: by embarking on an audacious trip around the world on foot. In reverse.
The Fences Between Us
Nothing comes easy when you’re dividing up the countryside.
Tutorial: Intro to React – React
The library for web and native user interfaces
Vertical Spotlight: Machine Learning for Manufacturing
https://stephenmann.io/post/whats-in-a-production-web-application/
Why Adding More Products Isn’t Always the Best Way to Grow
Product expansion is often used as a path to growth, but it can have unintended consequences for other aspects of the business — including the customer experience central to the company’s value proposition. Indeed, current trends are moving away from broad offerings in many…
Why This Japanese Knife Takes 42 Days to Make
Inside the workshop of Japan’s Miyabi Knives.
Magical West Texas hot spot springs up to beckon Austin travelers
Desert Getaway
A Counterintuitive Way to Shape Demand
Investing in more efficient ways for consumers to use your core commodity as it faces disruptive competition can be a smart move.
Creating value at industrial companies through advanced pricing techniques
Faced with tough competition and uncertainty in raw-material prices, industrial companies must reset their pricing architecture.
People Don’t Buy Products, They Buy Better Versions of Themselves
What Apple, Samsung, and Starbucks learned from Pepsi
Jupyter Notebook Tricks for Data Science that Enhance your efficiency
Edited: Update on 2018-11-23 Added: Table of Content, %debug magic, nbdime for notebook diffing
Can Liquor Have a Local Taste? They’re Banking on It (Published 2018)
No one is sure whether spirits can convey “terroir” like wine does. But distillers are seeking, and selling, that sense of place.
Forever 21 visual search tool boosted purchase value by 20%
The fast-fashion retailer has debuted, and quickly expanded, an AI-based visual search and navigation tool for its mobile and e-commerce business.
How a hacker network turned stolen press releases into $100 million - The V
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International hackers based in Ukraine stole unpublished press releases and passed them to stock traders to reap tremendous profits.
Home Audio Like You’ve Never Heard (Or Seen) It
Designer Chanmi Lee rethinks home entertainment in an all-new, never-before-seen format known as the Wind Sound Bar. Don't be confused by the name, however... this is anything but the sound bar you're probably imagining. The design adopts a shape similar to that of a trumpet or…
When Local Roller Rinks Had Their Own Collectible Stickers
Distinctive designs from the "Golden Age" of roller-skating.
Introduction to Switching-Mode Power Amplifiers: Class D Operation
In this article, we'll learn the basics of switching-mode RF amplifiers in general and Class D amplifiers in particular.
eCommerce 101: Understanding Shopping Cart Abandonment [with Infographic]
An illuminating infographic highlights 10 e-commerce pain points that ruin the user experience and lead to shopping cart abandonment.
This deck of cards will spark small, IRL experiences
The fabulous Lea Redmond of Leafcutter Designs (previously) has launched a brand new project. It's called Lively Matter and it's a 52-card activity deck to create grand adventures and experiences…
The Hobo Code: An Introduction to the Hieroglyphic Language of Early 1900s
Many of us now use the word hobo to refer to any homeless individual, but back in the America of the late 19th and early 20th century, to be a hobo meant something more.
The Strange Life and Mysterious Death of a Panther-Trapping, Gator-Wrestlin
Discover extraordinary true stories celebrating the diversity of humanity. Click to read Narratively, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.
Service as a SKU | Andreessen Horowitz
Editor’s note: This article by now-a16z general partner Alex Rampell was originally published in 2012 in TechCrunch. The biggest ecommerce opportunity today involves taking offline services and offering them for sale online (O2O commerce). The first generation of O2O commerce…
Narratively | Substack
Discover extraordinary true stories celebrating the diversity of humanity. Click to read Narratively, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.
The Super Bowl of Beekeeping
Almond growing in California is a $7.6 billion industry that wouldn’t be possible without the 30 billion bees (and hundreds of human beekeepers) who keep the trees pollinated — and whose very existence is in peril.
How to Downsize a Transport Network: The Chinese Wheelbarrow - LOW-TECH MAG
Language at the End of the World
On rongorongo, which no one can decipher.
The Great Chinese Art Heist
Is the Chinese government behind one of the boldest art-crime waves in history?
Snowbound
Pinned down in deep snow and running out of food, veteran thru-hiker Stephen “Otter” Olshansky scraped his way to a campground latrine, holed up inside, and prayed for help to arrive.
The Charmed Life of Esther the Wonder Pig
A profile of a pig.
The High-Stakes Race to Create the World's First Artificial Heart – Texas M
In this exclusive excerpt from 'Ticker: The Quest to Create an Artificial Heart,' world-renowned Houston surgeon Bud Frazier races to help an ailing patient by implanting a revolutionary device that may one day save millions of lives.
How a Transplanted Face Transformed a Young Woman’s Life
At 18, Katie Stubblefield lost her face. At 21, she became the youngest person in the U.S. to undergo the still experimental surgery. Follow her incredible story.
An Unprecedented Look at a Young Woman’s Face Transplant
Are we our faces? This poignant story explores that question.
What It Takes to Hold Your Breath for 24 Minutes (Yeah, It’s a Thing) | WIR
The world record stands at 24 minutes 3 seconds. How much can it improve?
Into the Cave of Chile’s Witches
Did members of a powerful society of warlocks actually murder their enemies and kidnap children?
Portrait of an Artist as an Old Man
Mel Brooks in his 90s.
The Spy Who Drove Me
Last week, as America’s top national security experts convened in Aspen, a strangely inquisitive Uber driver showed up, too.
Colcannon
Colcannon is often served on Halloween with hidden symbols inside.
Neko Case Is Telling The Truth
The singer is more uncompromising than ever.
Please Don't Be Dead by Fantastic Negrito
Please Don't Be Dead by Fantastic Negrito album reviews & Metacritic score: The follow-up to the Oakland artist's Grammy Award-winning 2016 release was influenced in part by divisive political and social issues....
Starting An Amazon FBA Business - Starter Story
Hello! Who are you and what are you working on?My name is Raymond Furgason, and I am the Creator and Founder of Carbage Can. The Carbage Can is a car trash can. It’s so easy to gather common trash in your vehicle - tissues, food wrappers, receipts, coffee cups… the list is…
What PopSugar learned from selling products through text messages
PopSugar said it expects to have 20,000 subscribers by year's end to its text message program, which it's used to sell protein bars and housewares.
The Over and Under Speaker
Whoever said wireless audio had to "sit" hasn't seen the Aloft speaker by designer Hyeonil Jeong. The alternative design explores an entirely new way to save valuable counter or desk space. It's A-shaped form and easy-to-install, built-in hanging bracket makes it possible to…
A Cast That Doesn’t Suck as Much
If you've ever broken a bone, chances are you remember just how inconvenient it was to have a heavy, itchy, not-so-hygienic cast. It's almost as bad as the broken bone itself! Tung-Jun Yang's proposal, called Cocoon, is an all-new type of cast that aims to be lighter, more…