Words can hurt you. In the larger world, it frames how people think about you, and it can hurt you in lots of little, subtle ways.

If you take a scotch whiskey and distill out the alcohol, what is left has an amazing taste to it and can be used as a flavoring for a dessert.

People who grow up in a region doubtless have a better cultural awareness of their own cuisine, but it's also true that a lot of locals go to McDonald's, Applebee's and the like.

Micropayments are great if you use them for a product or service with certain properties. It must be one where you can get away with usage-based pricing, and where there is a strong rationale for making it cheap, yet not free.

Raw lobster tail, freeze dried, is amazing.

One of the ugly secrets of the renewable-energy industry is that its products make no economic sense unless they are highly subsidized.

The world has shown that if you provide capital and expertise to an area that is starved for capital and expertise, really good things will happen.