Author Archives: David Collin

To sum up…

HBS Working Knowledge: Career Effectiveness: Crafting a Powerful Executive Summary Here’s a review of how to write a powerful proposal summary. It’s for business, but it’s principles apply to many situations, including Springboard.

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Update: $1K genomes

The Seattle Times: Business & Technology: Scientists seek faster, cheaper tools to map DNA Is the $1,000 genome sequence for real or hype? Here’s an update of the new techniques being tried to reach that holy grail. Toward the end is flat-out statement by one skeptical scientist who says we won’t see this for another 10 to 15 years! I’d ...

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Future scientists?

ITRINEWs One of the things that concerns me about the future (fret, fret!) is where the science resources to retain US leadership in the world is going to come from. Evidently the matter has gotten the attention of Congress. A report accompanying an energy bill says…

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More on Korean broadband

Forbes.com: Korean Broadband Explosion Oh, those Koreans. The deal is, what could we do to move our mission with bigger pipes? Are we prepared to think about it?

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