Reading Calvin Trillin’s anecdote about how smart guys were the reason for the recent financial collapse, I was reminded that I wanted to read something by Michael Lewis and decided to order Liar’s Poker, his 1989 book about the last time Wall Street went nuts. I ordered it approximately an hour and a half ago. [...]

I’ve never been satisfied with the career advice that if you find something you love, the rest will come. Bud Caddell, who has been creating and re-creating businesses for twelve years, summarizes his theories for success with this beautifully simple Venn diagram.

I frequent Trabant, a coffee shop near work, because they make excellent coffee using a Clover, a $12,000 brewer designed and built by local coffee enthusiasts and engineers. The machine quickly became de rigueur for so-called “third wave” cafés, until the whole company was bought by Starbucks. (The story is that Starbucks CEO Howard Shultz [...]