There is an old expression in business and technology: “paving the cow paths.”

Before roads and sidewalks were carefully designed, people and animals created paths by repeatedly traveling the same ro...

One of the greatest sources of stress in modern life may be the nagging feeling that we are falling behind. There is always a new technology to understand, another software update to install, a new ar...

I can still picture it.

It was 1987, and I was walking across the campus of the University of Iowa when I saw someone stop at what was, to me, a remarkable piece of technology. He slid a plastic card...

Several weeks ago, I had the opportunity to speak with more than 200 college interns beginning their professional careers. They represented over 100 companies, more than 60 universities, and came from...

When I was growing up, there was a familiar question waiting for me almost every afternoon.

"Did you do your homework?"

Parents asked it. Teachers checked it. Coaches reinforced it. The message was ...

Last weekend, I spent several hours walking a field that once served as a Native American settlement more than a thousand years ago. The field looked ordinary enough at first glance. Corn stubble, pat...