We need to learn quickly to keep up with the massive change around us so we don't get run over. We need to outrun change.
Courtesy of the credits on graphs from Mark Perry at Carpe Diem I found the mother lode of data for oil production in North Dakota.
Piece of cake to produce these cool graphs. Source of data: ND Monthly Oil Production Statistics
The following graphs show the daily production of oil in North Dakota. I’ve presented three time horizons, since that shows difference time perspectives.
Continue reading “Daily production graphs of North Dakota oil”
Watch this video to see the impact of re-engaging a 10-year resident of a nursing home. He goes from barely able to answer yes/no questions to expressively describing music he enjoyed as a child and why music is so important to him. Look at the joy in his eyes.
All from listening to his favorite music on an iPod.
Ah, the blessings of technology. As Glenn Reynolds say, faster please.
If you’ve ever spent time visiting a nursing home, this will make you weep with joy for what is possible.
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Hat tip: CyberBrethren-A Lutheran Blog by Paul T. McCain
Walter Russell Mead points to an article here that says prospectors are spreading out across southern Kansas looking for oil. They are in the Mississippi Lime formation, roughly between Tulsa and Wichita and spreading to the west.
Two really cool comments in Mr. Mead’s post, What is the Matter with Kansas? If You Like Oil, Nothing.
First, here is a hint at the economics involved:
Nails haven’t always been so cheap as to be priced as an inconsequential part of any project.
Post by Timothy Taylor at Conversable Economist discusses The Price of Nails.
The Wall Street Journal has a brief article on the boom times in the Dakotas oil field – Oil Fuels Population Boom in North Dakota City.
Continue reading “Short background article on oil boom in Williston ND”
Mark Schaefer has a great post at {grow} listing three careers that will be in high demand at companies living in the social media space. I think those ideas translates into skills we will all need to work on – Three careers that will dominate social media (and it’s not what you think)
Continue reading “Three skills for living in a social media world”
Here is a link to an interview on CNN demonstrating a 3-D printer for home use. Cost $1,300.
This printer created a wearable shoe and full-color mini-bust of the host.
Continue reading “Demonstration of $1,300 personal 3-D printer”
(cross-post from my other blog, Nonprofit Update.)
Check out these two pictures showing 1980 and 2010 electronics tools: Worth a thousand words.
One tool in 2010 does the work of 14 (by my count) in 1980. Can you begin to guess the cost reduction, even without discounting for inflation? How about the weight reduction or portability increase?
From Café Hayek, of course. This is the type of thing I talk about at my other blog, Outrun Change.
I have a couple of graphs of production in North Dakota here. In today’s Wall Street Journal, there is a good month-by-month graph from 2007 through 2011. You have to scroll down some, but you can find it here: Oil Boom Sparks River Fight.