Volkswagen, Johnson & Johnson, and Corporate Responsibility Implied but not said: salespeople making promises about products they don’t understand can be dangerous, as can engineers who don’t push back on stupid promises.

In Conversation: Charlie Kaufman “That’s the thing I love about anything, whether it’s Monty Python or Mr. Show or Kids in the Hall — anything where it feels like it doesn’t go where you think it’s going to go. That freedom, that sort of anarchy of form, is the thing that really appeals to me.”

Competitive balance in football: Why the English Premier League has been turned upside down | The Economist “In statistical terms, the correlation between pace and average shot distance was 0.35…. But during this season, that link seems to have been broken: some quick teams, like Leicester City or Newcastle United, are also among the league […]

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Trying to simulate the human brain is a waste of energy “It’s as though we decided to build a Tardis immediately, on the basis of the knowledge we have about it now – call it the ‘Blue Box’ project. We know it’s blue, squarish, probably uses electricity for some purposes, makes a whooshy noise, travels […]