My first blog post , as co-editor of entreVIEW, appeared on March 18, 2011. This post is number 90. It is also my last as I’ve decided to pu...

As summer begins to wind down, and as we begin to anticipate less of the happy and carefree and more of the autumnal nose-to-the-grindstone ...

Malcolm Harris lured me into this book, a history of the area now encompassing Silicon Valley, with his very first sentences: “Palo Alto is ...

Until I read this book, while I’m a fan of movies, I hadn’t thought about the movie business much. On a regular basis, new movies appear ful...

Each May, thousands of people flock to Omaha for this event, more prosaically known as the Berkshire Hathaway annual shareholders meeting. A...

I write this sitting in front of a window open on a fine summer’s morning. On any other day, I’d be in an equally fine mood, but today I fin...

In an effort to be timely and topical, I thought about writing something about the coronation of the new titular leader of our closest ally ...

Like many people, I have dreamed about being an entrepreneur and having my own business venture. But when I really think about the concrete ...

Forty years ago, I had just graduated from a law school that is part of a private research university in what is now known as Silicon Valle...

The years between 1973 and 1979 took me from high school through college, a time during which I worked in my first job, cast my first vote i...

It’s a view of human nature that we all accept. It tends to shape how we view our political affairs, our economic institutions, our business...

Over the Martin Luther King Day holiday a couple of weeks ago, I was reminded that Dr. King’s advocacy had a significant economic component ...

It’s been a long pandemic. While there seems to be light at the end of the tunnel, it still feels like we’re limited in what we might otherw...

Malcolm Gladwell is one of my favorite authors, as evidenced by my earlier reviews here , here , and here , but it’s been a while since I’ve...

Sometimes entrepreneurial ventures go sideways or — God forbid — south. Among the people in what made up the Donner party of emigrants to Ca...

OK, I’ll admit that I have a particular penchant for tales of time travel. That said, I have resisted visiting this genre for almost nine ye...

In my book reviews over lo these many years, I’ve often expanded on the commonly accepted notion that entrepreneurial activity is exclusivel...

I ndulge me for a moment — a baseball bat and a ball cost $1.10. The bat costs $1 more than the ball. How much does the ball cost?  If you a...

Is it really possible to fit the history of mankind into a mere 500 pages? Yuval Harari gives it a shot and, while understandably a little l...

Sometimes you pick up a book out of mild curiosity and discover that it’s a whole lot more interesting than you thought it would be. I exp...