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Walter Isaacson

  • Professor, Tulane University
New Orleans
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Benjamin Franklin's Revolutionary War loan agreement with France sells for $484,151 at auction

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By Walter Isaacson
| ArtDaily Newspaper
BOSTON, MASS.- A twice-signed 1782 promissory note completed entirely in Benjamin Franklin’s hand sold for $484,151 at RR Auction’s Spirit of ’76: America’s 250th Anniversary Auction, which closed July 8. The document bound the United States to repay France 1,500,000 silver livres in Revolutionary War funding.
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Why You Should Never Automate First

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By Branden Bodendorfer, Walter Isaacson
| OnFocus
Business Quick Answer Most businesses install AI automation tools before fixing the processes underneath them. That is the most expensive mistake in the current technology wave. Elon Musk learned it firsthand at Tesla, and his framework for process improvement makes the case clearly: automate last, always. Here is what that means and why it matters for every business running AI tools right now. Every business is automating. Most are doing it in the wrong order.
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The Words That Made America

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By Walter Isaacson
| TIME Verified
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
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