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Why Are So Many Churches for Sale?

Have you noticed how many churches are for sale these days? In almost every major American city, from Chicago to Seattle to Atlanta to Los Angeles to  Brookline, Massachusetts you can buy a church. In fact, everywhere I looked, I found a church for sale. What’s the story here? Are churches under financial distress? Maybe churchgoers […]

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Time to Get Our Hands Dirty

Have you read Andy Grove’s magnificent essay on Silicon Valley’s ability to create jobs? A reaction to Tom Friedman’s column “Startups, Not Bailouts,” it’s much better than what we wrote on the same topic a few weeks ago. Grove argues that Silicon Valley can’t create jobs because we out-source most of our manufacturing abroad. His startling

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“You Should Be Urinating Right Now” (A Real-Time Web Server)

As part of our Engineer-to-Engineer series of talks on topics such as Hadoop, Scala, HTML5, Cassandra and Clusto, Redfin invited Ryan Dahl to speak last Wednesday on Node.JS, a web server he created using JavaScript. It was a stupendous talk. Now, I know what you’re thinking. For a core back-end technology like a web server, why use JavaScript, a technology

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