Nuances Are Hard to Communicate

Pantheon is a project of The MIT Media Lab that seeks to quantify, analyze, measure and visualize global culture. They created a dataset that ranks notable individuals from 4000 B.C. to 2010 by their popularity. It can display a chart representing the roles of globally recognized people from a selected country and timeframe. For example,

Enough

One of the hardest tasks—in business, in technology, in finance—is to make something simple. Vanguard Group founder Jack Bogle simplified investing for millions of small clients by resisting the urge to try to “beat the market” and popularizing the low-cost index mutual fund instead. As a result, he saved them billions of dollars in reduced