The Religion of Problem Solving

Welcome to Decade of 2020, a newsletter with a relentless focus on how the next 10 years will affect the middle class. Forewarned is forearmed, they say. If you'd like to sign up, you can do so here. The history of the electric rivalry between Thomas Alva Edison and Nikola Tesla is both fascinating and inspiring. The two geniuses butted heads while trying to solve a problem - the generation, and more importantly, the distribution of electrical energy to American households; Edison with his vision of a direct current future and Tesla with his revolutionary ideas of alternating current.