“What are relevant topics? Posts on business, management, marketing, accounting, finance, economics, sales, capitalism; anything of that nature that logically fits something called ‘Carnival of the Capitalists.’ See the end of this page for a more comprehensive list/description of possible topics that would be appropriate. The extended list may be updated from time to time as we think of anything that is missing.”

“Sometimes it isn’t helpful to start the problem-solving process by identifying a problem. Sometimes the solution has to come first. Only after we’ve discovered a better way do we realize in retrospect that there was a problem to be solved.” More: Why Not? How to use everyday ingenuity to solve problems big and small.

“For 38 years, Pacific Gas & Electric Co. had the same software application at the heart of its customer-information-management system. The application handled the California utility’s billing and credit-history tasks, managing 6.5 million customer accounts and cranking out 250,000 gas and electricity bills every day. Other PG&E systems, such as customer-service and maintenance apps, tapped into it for customer information. By the late 1990s, the system was showing its age.”