Last revised 6 December 2008; get the PDF
Though its origins wend all the way back to 1971, it was not until the 1990s, after a successfully IPO, that Starbucks became the household name. One can trace both its precipitous proliferation…
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Dec 07 2008
Satisfaction, Enrichment, & Motivation
rev. 20 November 2008; get the PDF.
In the inchoate years of the 21st century, the nominal ideas behind Frederick Herzberg’s “Two-Factor Theory” have been largely cast aside in their want of experimental validation, but the late psychologist’s ultimate conclusion—that “job…
Nov 23 2008
Information Systems and Perceived Locii of Control
See this in PDF format; revised 28 October 2008.
As a professional working in Information Technology, I often encounter hesitation and trepidation on the part of functional users to engage my employer’s information system, an ERP system known as Banner. The…
Nov 08 2008
Two-Factor Theory
See this in PDF format; revised 21 October 2008.
The relatively inglorious origins of organizational behavior as a field of study began as little more than queries into potential ways to improve productivity and reduce human variability—this at the advent of…
Apr 24 2007
Hanging Babylon: Functionalist policy and the war in Iraq
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Several weeks ago, the War in Iraq entered its fourth year—despite the official “end of major combat” that the codpiece-sporting President announced mere months after it began—and the steady sectarian violence pursuant to the toppling of Saddam…
Apr 22 2007
Love, Poverty, and War
Love, Poverty, and War by Christopher Hitchens- Publisher: Nation Books
- Year: 2003
- Pages: 475
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Anyone who’s frequented my blog to any significant degree knows that I am (mostly) a fan of Christopher Hitchens. I find him…
Feb 10 2007
With Friends Like These: Developing countries in a war of political attrition
rev. 6 February 2007. Get the PDF
Though America’s days of colonization had been over for roughly half a century by the time two resounding explosions in the far east violently christened the Cold War, the newly-global political system set in…
Dec 18 2006
Around the Block: High-Performance *nix Filesystems
rev. 12 December 2006. Get the PDF.
The aspect of an operating system most often overlooked is its filesystem, the method by which data is stored to more permanent media—most often a magnetic hard drive. On any relatively modern Windows system,…
Jul 12 2006
The Autocrat: an elucidation of absolutist philosophy in Western thought
Get the PDF: revised 7 December 2004, minor proofing on 12 July 2006
Since the dawn of civilization, man has looked ever skyward. Erich Fromm posited, “Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he…