Chad Aaron Hall

One group of these are so-called insight problems. Insight problems generally cannot be solved by a step-by-step procedure, like an algorithm, or if they can, the process is extremely tedious. Instead, insight problems are characterized by a kind of restructuring of the solver’s approach to the problem.

When I was working on something I cared about, productivity was never an issue. Somehow I just did it. I had the focus I needed because I cared about the task at hand.

“Hollywood has made itself irrelevant to the American people,” Barr told Variety.

In 1997, Peterborough, NH (pop. 6,284), received a Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Project Impact Grant for hazard mitigation.

The town used some of the funding to begin building a GIS—documenting past hazards; assessing current hazards, such as potential flood areas; and inventorying critical assets, such as its water and sewer systems.

But if more roads meant more prosperity, surely we’d be feeling it by now. We have three times more roads per person than New York City. Are we three times more economically productive?