Monthly Archives: December 2012

There is something seemingly unfathomable to the human mind about exponential curves. As I wrote last fall: There is an old story about the invention of the chessboard, in which the inventor as his reward asks for one grain of … Continue reading →

illustration from my book Finding the Sweet Spot About half the people on Bowen Island, where I live, commute daily to Vancouver via a heavily taxpayer-subsidized car ferry. The reason they do this is, basically, that whatever they have to … Continue reading →