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Posted inBusiness & Tech, Featured, Food, Highlight, History, Quote Posts, Quotes

All Hail the Inventor of the Crock Pot: Irving Nachumsohn

by Krista Stevens November 27, 2019October 19, 2022

Irving Nachumsohn invented the crock pot so that his family didn’t have to use the stove to prepare dinner on hot summer evenings. You’re welcome.

Posted inBusiness & Tech, Nonfiction, Quotes

When Innovation Fails: Doing Hard Time in the Offender-Monitoring Business

by Aaron Gilbreath April 20, 2017October 19, 2022

When 3M, the Post-It Note manufacturer, began making electronic ankle monitors for corrections, it challenged the company’s long-heald philosophy about design and innovation.

Posted inNonfiction, Quotes

Drawing Parallels Between Elon Musk and the Wright Brothers

by juliawick September 24, 2015October 19, 2022

There are a number of suggestive parallels between [Elon] Musk and the Wrights, beyond the obvious ones to do with an interest in flight. The [Wright brothers’ father] had very high standards and set no limits on the intellectual curiosity he encouraged in his children; Musk’s father had the same standards and the same insistence on […]

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