Tag: technology
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Two hundred good books recommended by C. F. Braun
Reading Poor Charlie’s Almanack, it’s fascinating to see that the good ideas in life and business seem to be repackaged for each new generation. For Charlie Munger (and by extension Warren Buffet), one of their oracles was C. F. Braun, the founder of the C.F. Braun Engineering Company of Alhambra, CA, which at the time…
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Japan’s 21st-century toilet technology
Never have I seen so many buttons in a bathroom stall, I thought as I took a quick pit stop after our 14-hour flight from New York to Tokyo. It turns the sleek international terminal of Narita Airport would not be the last place we’d see what I’d call “toilet technology”. Japan is indeed a…
Hops Trains and Backpacks 