A plane crashes and all but one of the 137 passengers die. What does the one survivor do? He writes a best-selling book called How to Survive a Plane Crash. The one word you don’t see in the manuscript? Luck. That’s survivor bias. You’re about to learn a lot more [Keep reading]
Since the 1973 oil embargo, and the nearly concurrent coining of the term “gridlock,” Americans have mused about telecommuting as the solution to many modern ills. When high-speed Internet began making its way into homes in the late 1990s, telecommuting seemed on the verge of a breakout. Why waste time [Keep reading]
(Bob’s note: As I write this story, five Washington State residents are dead and about two dozen more are sick, most of them in the same nursing and rehab center. I’m haunted by how incredibly sad and scary the Life Care Center of Kirkland must be right now. Not long [Keep reading]
Bob Sullivan