Archimedes’ Hot Tub

Since February of 2006, I’ve contributed interviews for the World Voice column in Shukan Daiyamondo (Diamond Weekly), a large Japanese business magazine. Diamond’s Web site is both registration-only and in Japanese, a language I do not read. I’ve been reluctant to post on my site the files I send to my editor at Diamond, since they’ll inevitably be different from what I send. But on this journal I can be a little less formal, and in the interest of populating this site, I’m going to post one or two World Voice interviews a day until I catch up.

The first one I did was with education entrepreneur Chris Whittle, who runs Edison Schools, a for-profit manager of public schools. His book “Crash Course” was recently out. The document is here: whittle-qa.doc

A sample: If you study a chart of percentage of GDP allocated to different sectors, number one is healthcare and number two is education. So it’s a big world. And business is going to be in it in a very serious way.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/11/business/yourmoney/11proto.html (registration required).

My initial Prototype column for the New York Times. What interested me most on this topic is the most important applications from the personal computer era, the word processor and spreadsheet, do not have widely used Web versions. But that might be about to change.

I wrote this piece about Steve Bigari, who is rethinking the systemic issues that affect America’s working poor.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/04/business/yourmoney/04bigari.html (It’s New York Times, so subscription required. For more on Bigari, his foundation is here: http://www.amfol.com).