Annals of Business

Technology & Business

Obstruction Is the Oldest Power Move in Politics — Rome Proved It

Long before C-SPAN cameras caught senators reading phone books into the congressional record, Roman legislators were talking bills to death with equal enthusiasm and superior oratory. The filibuster is not a constitutional anomaly — it is a recurring feature of every deliberative body that has ever accumulated enough power to be worth obstructing. Business leaders who understand this history will stop being surprised by it.

Mar 13, 2026

Technology & Business

The Rise, Fall, and Reinvention of Digg: A Silicon Valley Story of Ambition, Competition, and Survival

Few stories in the history of the early internet capture the volatility of the social media era quite like that of Digg. Once the undisputed king of social news aggregation, the platform's dramatic decline and subsequent attempts at reinvention offer a compelling case study in product strategy, community dynamics, and the unforgiving pace of Silicon Valley competition.

Mar 12, 2026