Slope of Hope Blog Posts
Slope initially began as a blog, so this is where most of the website’s content resides. Here we have tens of thousands of posts dating back over a decade. These are listed in reverse chronological order. Click on any category icon below to see posts tagged with that particular subject, or click on a word in the category cloud on the right side of the screen for more specific choices.
China Outdrinks Germany
Still De-railed
Five years ago, I did a piece about the fiasco here in California known as high speed rail. I am very confident that it’ll never, ever get complete, although tens of billions of taxpayer dollars will be thrown away on it. Fast-forwarding to the present day, nothing has changed since I did my post half a decade ago.
(more…)One Sparked. The Other Plugged.
Surely it would make a fantastic business school case study to understand the strategic differences that drove O’Reilly Auto Parts and Advanced Auto Parts in such profoundly different directions.
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