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Dear Michael Bloomberg
Dear Michael Bloomberg (Mayor of New York City), Just wanted to alert you that I am available, if the hours are right, to join the stable of writers of your [...]
Success After 26 Years of Losing
CalTech has had 32 Nobel Prize winners on its faculty, but in sports they are just a bunch of losers. The college basketball team had lost every conference game for [...]
Twenty Four Hours in the Life of Curtis Screw
Gary Pletscher hopped out of his Ford pickup at 5:55 a.m. on November 10thand marched across the Thielman Drive asphalt, anticipating a 13-hour siege of problem-solving amidst the whispering of [...]
Swarf: Taking the Plunge
The key question facing American manufacturers, especially contract machining shops in the next two years is, how do you expand? Or, the interesting corollary question, is this the time to [...]
Machining Industry Scuttlebutt
Interesting juxtaposition of auction sales. Corporate Assets sold Die-Matic in Hamilton, Ontario. Gorgeous machinery including a 2004 L-20 Citizen and a 2003 M-20 Citizen . With buyers premium the L-20 [...]
Working Under the Table
I am seeing a lot of anecdotal evidence of people playing the system when it comes to receiving unemployment benefits. We have been seeking to hire a part time worker. [...]
Does Winning Breed Good Team Chemistry?
For the March issue of Today’s Machining World I had the pleasure of interviewing Dr. Steven Julius, the official psychologist for the Chicago Bulls. I asked him the classic question, [...]
Happy About Egypt?
Tom Friedman, a superb columnist for the New York Times, asked a rhetorical question while being interviewed a few days ago by Charlie Rose: “Why hasn’t Egypt developed in the last [...]
Book Review: WAR
For 15 months, reporter Sebastian Junger followed a platoon based in a remote mountain outpost in eastern Afghanistan. His objective was to convey war as soldiers really live it. WAR [...]