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62 people have the wealth of half the world’s population, according to a report by Oxfam International.  The number has been shrinking since at least 2010, when 388 individuals had the wealth of half the world’s population.  What is shocking is despite the recent progress of the world’s poorest countries, the gap between the richest and […]

This article was originally posted February 9, 2016. On January 10, I received an e-mail from TurboTax.  “Special Offer Enclosed. Open Now!” it said in the subject line. I opened the e-mail and a colorful picture loaded with big bold letters, “One Week Only SAVE UP TO $15! January 10-16”.  Then there were a bunch […]

With the amount of data being generated in our lives daily, it’s easy to let things get out of hand.  At one point, I had over 4,000 articles in my “read later” list.  I also had over 20,000 digital photographs sitting on my hard drive, with more added every week.  Hundreds of videos sat waiting […]

More than 300,000 book titles are published each year in the United States alone.  About a trillion gigabytes of digital data are generated every year.  Over 25 million hours of new video is uploaded to Youtube each year.  There are about 1,200 coffee roasters and over 3,000 breweries in the United States alone.  There are over […]

Having big earth-shattering goals is important.  These are the towering “meaning of life” goals.  They drive us and give us a reason to wake up each day. The reason most people don’t pursue the big goals is that they appear too daunting.  They are intimidating.  They are simply too big to start.  Pursuing the big […]

The Internet Archive is a massive (as in, more than 15 million gigabytes!) archive of the Internet.  Alexa is an Amazon-owned company that provides web traffic data on the Internet.  Combining these two services, I could do a quick analysis of how the World Wide Web has evolved over the past several years. The following is […]