Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are on a mission to make the world a better place. Using their vast fortunes and public visibility, they have launched an effort to get the world’s billionaires to donate more of their wealth to worthy causes. What would happen, some wondered, when they took their effort to China? The [...]

In this book post, the first in a while, we delve into a world quite the opposite of the ethereal “God” world of the last book post — though we return to this world toward the end. A starkly different picture is painted by the Chinese data. This matter-of-fact statement encapsulates the essence of the [...]

A few days ago I co-led a training to a roomful of 20- and 30-something nuclear engineers from China, in the U.S. on a job-shadow program. They had been in the U.S. for about a week. The first thing we had them do, after brief introductions, was, in small groups, to list out on a [...]