HENDERSON: Upping our game in the cyberwar
Until there is corporate liability for breaches, those who can do something about it won’t feel compelled to act—and losses will continue to mount.
Tom Henderson
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HENDERSON: It’s time to try racing driverless cars
It’s time to consider that, not only is technology evolving, but people are having a blast with the possible futures.
Real critics call them like they see them
Heaven help me: I’m a paid critic. I’m different from the sort of gushing-praiser, or mindless hater on Yelp. I get to research, test and objectively review some of the most advanced computing gear in the industry, year after year.
HENDERSON: The folly and amusement of Tesla bans
The Tesla store bans are among the more amusing betrayals of a citizenry by its governments that I’ve seen in a long time. The cable monopolies have a new challenger—the automotive dealership.
HENDERSON: No, you can’t hide anymore
Customer retention and new sales can be trendy. If you’re Comcast/Xfinity, as an example, you’re reeling from the insane firestorm of social media castigation as regards to how you’ve trained, monitored and improved the quality of your customer service representatives.
HENDERSON: Why we should halt tax abatements
It’s time to rein in the tax abaters. If the business plan succeeds only if you can avoid or abate taxes, then it’s a bad plan.
HENDERSON: Love can trump constitutional missteps
The fatwa on gay marriage must end. The state Constitution is no toy for the disengaged to manipulate real love. I’m hoping the Legislature does the right thing: reverse the hatred and disinformation that makes us appear like Iran on an evil day.
HENDERSON: Why businesses should make Makers
Over beers and dinners, I hear complaints that innovation is dead in the United States, and that most of the “real” innovation comes from southeast Asia, and the university skunk works of Western and Northern Europe.
HENDERSON: My quest for online privacy
More than a year ago, I divorced Google. Why? Its terms of service and privacy policies are objectionable.
HENDERSON: Treat temp workers better
One of the highest costs to businesses is labor. Direct wages, benefits, vacation pay, pension vesting, health care and employment legal costs—they all add up.
HENDERSON: If coffee were like gasoline
Today, we’re paying what the market will not get upset over, just like the enormous price of coffee, whose bean prices have also collapsed.
HENDERSON: Don’t choose between online tax and estate tax
I’ve yet to see an Amazon sign at a Little League playing field, or sponsoring the Girl Scouts.
HENDERSON: Behind the scenery of I-69 opposition
Your southern neighbors look at the sheer ugliness of convenience that surrounds Indy-area freeways and say: No way.
HENDERSON: On power players and the future of kids
We expect IPS to take its students to the very pillars of academic success after thoroughly hog-tying them. It’s difficult to find more breathless insanity than this.
HENDERSON: The great school massacre of 2011
What a great way to slime our public school education infrastructure: educational vouchers.
HENDERSON: Thinking outside the neurotypical hiring box
There’s a screening process we often use in the human resources process that’s meant to identify prospective candidates. It needs re-thinking.
HENDERSON: On civility and donning the brain bucket
Some of the things I was warned as a young man that I should never get into arguments over
were—in no particular order—religion, politics, which hand in a card game wins, and whether there should be a
motorcycle-helmet law.
HENDERSON: The real reasons not to merge utilities
Part of the overall utility problem is that lack of government oversight and public policy vision has made Indianapolis one
of the highest-polluting and just plain ugliest cities in the Midwest.
HENDERSON: Indianapolis getting squeezed by suburbs
Indianapolis’ successful suburbs are rapidly surrounding the city. More important, tax and cultural shifts
are starting to drain Marion County.
HENDERSON: Airport terminal, one long year later
As an all-too-frequent flier, I’ve had a chance to get the full-love experience of the new airport terminal numerous
times in its first year. The summary is that it’s both tolerable, and I have no choice.