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Hiri and the human condition
In “Risk: Aversion vs.
Nov 30
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Phillip Reid
Last book on deep BF sale
Just FYI for anyone who might be interested...
Nov 28
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Phillip Reid
Jaguar: Technology and culture in the postwar auto industry
Part 2: Nine lives?
Nov 23
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Phillip Reid
Jaguar: Technology and culture in the postwar auto industry
Part 1: William Lyons’ company
Nov 16
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Phillip Reid
Let’s get something straight …
Words matter …
Nov 9
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Phillip Reid
“The Greatest Country in the World”
Note: this is not a history-of-technology piece
Nov 2
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Phillip Reid
October 2025
Gilded Age Redux?
Note: this is not a history-of-technology piece
Oct 26
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Phillip Reid
Prestige technology
Humans are a social, cooperative species—but …
Oct 19
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Phillip Reid
Inventors
Perhaps the first accomplishment of the sub-discipline of the history of technology was to trash the “heroic inventor.” Few if any historical fallacies…
Oct 12
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Phillip Reid
“He who is wise is he who knows he is not wise.”
Or, “The more you know, the more you know you don’t know.”
Oct 5
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Phillip Reid
September 2025
Gimmickry versus innovation?
In which I follow up last week's...
Sep 28
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Phillip Reid
The Challenge of Selling Quality
My in-laws used to sell high-end gas grills.
Sep 21
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Phillip Reid
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