Posts I hope you find interesting and informative
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Made in America
For someone with a limited connection to American manufacturing or production, I spend a lot of time thinking about what was, is, could be, or…
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A modern take on an old location service
I found an intriguing blurb in the New York Times today (Nov. 9, 2025). In the 1920s or ’30s, “anyone anywhere could purchase a 15-cent…
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Second Time is a Charm: Trying to Limit Fed. Gov’t. Payment Fraud
Fraud against the government is massive. As just one example, the federal government sent $1.3 billion to dead people in 2023 alone. I have written…
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The Power of Thinking: Lessons I Learned at IBM
The first office job I had was in the mid- to late-1980s when I worked for parts of two summers at IBM’s headquarters in Armonk,…
Eric J. Ellman 