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Prius: a Crystal Anniversary (15 years)
A few Prius-inclined websites noted last week that Dec 10, 2012 marked the 15th anniversary of the Prius’ introduction in Japan. With the Prius (temporarily?) becoming the world’s 3rd-best-selling car...
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Of whales and wind turbines
(originally written June 20, 2012 — part of my Great Upload of 2013) > So I was reading up on my Ray Kurzweil last night, because it’s good to read people you disagree with once in a while — but...
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Epic Vancouver 2012 (and raw food)
(originally written May 15, 2012 — part of my Great Upload of 2013) > I outlined a piece tentatively titled “Douglas, Deng and Diocletian” on Saturday, as I cycled to Vancouver’s new convention...
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Second fiddles (usurping first-fiddle status)
(Originally written April 29, 2012 — part of my Great Upload of 2013) > Cory Schneider’s replacement of Roberto Luongo as Vancouver’s #1 goalie has been all the talk for the past week or so. But so...
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Reflections on others’ perceptions of still others’ hard-workingness
(originally written Dec 20, 2011 — part of my Great Upload of 2013) > I saw an item the other morning suggesting that as a country, Italians actually work 20% more hours per year than Germans and...
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Plug-in electric car sales in Canada, 2012 (via GreenCarReports)
My new adventures as a Canadian correspondent for GreenCarReports.com begin with this post. Readers are encouraged to show them some love. :) My ongoing efforts to track Canadian EV sales figures...
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Book Club 08 – Cradle to Cradle
One line item in my 2013 “bucket list” was to upload the book summaries from my work business book club. Since we covered about 40 books, and I wanted to upload one book a week, March was about the...
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Electron democracy
A long-belated companion to Steven Chu’s “Time to fix the wiring” essay I posted earlier, this is the white paper I co-authored for the same McKinsey & Company series. Given the roughly five-month...
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A patent app mishap
I hope that if/when this patent application gets granted, they update the title… otherwise, someone at Samsung will have some ‘splaining to do!
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The witless wisdom of Shai Agassi
Dunning-Kruger effect graphed by AddAttack on DeviantArt. LinkedIn has an “opinion leader” piece from Shai Agassi, founder of bankrupt car-battery-switcher Better Place, telling carmakers how they...
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…on the Entrepreneurial State
With the next Canadian federal election less than a year away – and undesirables like Wayne Gretzky soon to be purged from the voter lists – I’ve been getting a lot more fundraising emails lately. As...
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