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Project Profitability: Troublemakers
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Answer a question: Could you or your business function without smart phones; powerful, fast computers; efficient, flexible software; communications capabilities such as text messaging and email; social media; and dozens of other similar tools? If your answer is no, just imagine working 40 years ago when none of that existed. In that long-ago time, the leading and most valuable companies in the United States were industrial firms. Apple, Google (Alphabet), Microsoft, and Facebook were either embryonic or did not exist. Indeed, some of these firm’s founders were still children at the time. Troublemakers, a book by Leslie Berlin, charts the development of the technology and capability that makes our modern world possible. As the front piece to the book notes, “At a time when the five most valuable companies on the planet are high-tech firms and nearly half of Americans say they cannot live without their cell phones, Troublemakers reveals the untold story of how we got here. This is the gripping tale of seven exceptional men and women, pioneers of Silicon Valley in the 1970s and early 1980s. Together they worked across generations, industries, and companies to bring technology from Pentagon offices and university laboratories to the rest of us. In doing so, they changed the world.”
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Diversions: A funny thing happened …
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By Andy Sciarabba, P.E., T.G. Miller, P.C., Engineers and Surveyors
I’m sitting in my favorite coffee shop on a gloomy Sunday, after a rainy Saturday, trying to come up with a good topic for an article. Behind me I hear someone say, “Something funny happened to me today.” Ah — light bulb! What’s the best way to change your mood? Enjoy a good laugh. They say that laughter is the best medicine. So, sit back and throw down a few funny pills. But be careful…these are For External Use Only. To control your blood pressure, take regularly. Do not discontinue unless directed by your physician or significant other.
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