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[–] 129 points 6 months ago (8 children)
  • [–] 41 points 6 months ago (6 children)

    According to my experience, the left one does not amount to much.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    No chapter about Late Sumerian?

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    They yanked the chapter about selling copper because it got bad reviews

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Instruction unclear. Did the chapter get bad reviews or the copper?

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    The bronze age copper industry was very unforgiving. You deliver reduced purity copper ingots once and suddenly there's tablets all over the place telling everyone about it. Not that it affected sales; demand for copper was always high. But every single customer makes a comment about the purity.

    I curse them all to be wiped out by mysterious alien invaders from across the sea!

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  • [–] 10 points 6 months ago

    Ben Rich, aeronautical engineer and second head of Lockeed's Skunkworks after Kelly Johnson mentions Harvard Business School in his autobiography. He was apparently sent to a program they taught there for professionals already working in industry to become more business savvy. Kelly Johnson sent Ben Rich to this program, and when Rich got back, Johnson asked him what he learned. He said "Okay let me show you." and he turned to the blackboard and wrote "2/3 HBS = BS" on the blackboard.

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