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I'm not a fickle person, but I admit I've treated my business plan shoddily.

Fantastically detailed, visually arresting photographs of Andromeda, a spiral galaxy that lies 2.5 million light-years from Earth, have been available for years.

At Menlo Innovations, all work (seriously, all work) is done by pairs. Why teamwork? Richard Sheridan likes to talk about joy and why software development can be such a joyless occupation.

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A program in Washington, D.C. is bribing people to move from the suburbs to downtown.

Google's launching a new quiz powered by its search engine's skills at finding information, with questions published in The New York Times right above the skill-requiring, brain-taxing crossword puzzle. Either this is some seriously weak-sauce PR, or Google is positioning itself as the puzzle arbiter of the next generation. "Traditional trivia games have a rule that you can't cheat--you can't look things up in books, you can't ask your fiends and you certainly can't ask Google" begins Google's blog posting about the new A Google A Day quiz

The social network is hoping hardware companies will take a page from the software open source movement and collaborate to spur innovation. They might be disappointed. Facebook didn’t spend eighteen months and tens of millions of dollars developing more powerful--and more energy efficient--data centers and servers so that it could go into the hardware business

Harvard Business School Taught by: Noam Wasserman Most entrepreneurship classes chase the strategy-innovation-finance trifecta. But people problems cause more than 60 percent of new-venture failures, research shows.

Predicting the future is a seemingly futile exercise. This doesn't mean we should not try to stay ahead of the game. However, I have found throughout my career at PepsiCo that rapid adaption to changes as they occur is more beneficial in business than clairvoyance.