Author name: Lynne Kiesling

Creative Destruction (with Emphasis on the Creative), Air Cooling Edition

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Lynne Kiesling This Babbage column from the Economist is full of interesting information about the air conditioning that we have enjoyed over the past 110 years. Invented 110 years ago in Brooklyn by Willis Carrier, air conditioning has made indoor climate control of temperature and humidity first possible and then ubiquitous. Such is the now-typical …

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Strava

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Lynne Kiesling Wired has a nice article today on Strava, a really good online training tracking site. I like Strava, and have used it for about a year (in addition to Training Peaks). It has a clean design, good features, and a set of members that includes some pro cyclists who are fun to follow …

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Manners, Morality, Coordination, and Order

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Lynne Kiesling Sarah’s post here on manners (including her Freeman essay and Matt Zwolinski’s BHL post) and Mike’s observations on them open up a great discussion about the importance of seemingly superficial informal norms for enabling us to live together and generate civil society. Mike’s absolutely right that the road to anarchy is paved with …

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Dematerialization, Smart Phones, and Smart Grid

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Lynne Kiesling Do you have a smart phone? If so, list the functions you use on it: phone, camera, video camera, alarm clock, calculator, notepad, address book, maps, music player, and so on. This list scratches the surface, and your list probably differs from mine. One small device that fulfills many roles, substituting for several …

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Economic Experimentation, Economic Growth, and Regulation

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Lynne Kiesling For much of the past year I’ve been thinking about experimentation and the role that experimentation plays in economic activity and value creation; my post on Jim Manzi’s book earlier this week is in keeping with my interest in this topic. When I reflect on the processes of value creation and economic change …

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Trademark Protection Gone Wrong, U.s. Olympic Committee Edition

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Lynne Kiesling The U.S. Olympic Committee is starting to beat the drum for the London 2012 Olympics, 36 days to go! But their long-standing aggressive enforcement of their “Olympic” trademark has alienated an unlikely group of potential Olympics fans and TV viewers: knitters. Yes, knitters (of which I am one). At the knitting social network …

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