My Year of Coding, Messaging, Learning, Leading, Reconoitering, and Hacking in Photos
Hope you have a little patience, this blog entry is going to be pretty long. There was a multitude of conferences, more than a hundred pair coding sessions, more cities, hotels and other things as I criss crossed the country helping to knock out projects, code, fire off some open source projects and generally get [...]
Book Summary: "StandOut" by Marcus Buckingham
I’ve been a fan of Marcus’ work since his original breakthrough book, “First, Break All The Rules.” His core message of the importance of casting people in the proper roles has stuck with me.Where Marcus’ previous books focused on the role of managers,…
Onward by Howard Schultz is an odd book to read
I do not doubt that things happened in the historical time line of Starbucks, what I do doubt is that they happened the way they are stated. Anyone who is working in modern conflicted business today knows that companies go through a middle age point, …
Little Bets = Greatest Hits Of The 2000s
I’ve just completed reading Peter Sims’ new book, Little Bets. I’ll admit that I’m horrendously biased because 1) Peter is an old friend, and 2) he quotes me on page 75 of the hardcover edition, but I think that Little Bets is a great book. (Apparently the world agrees; Amazon has 17 customer reviews for [...]
No For Kno, Finally. It Was DOA Anyway.
Boomtown reports Kno, makers of the flip-open dual tablet designed for the education market is planning to sell off the hardware business, and focus on software only. Says Kara Swisher: That’s because marketing a new and complex product like the Kno takes a lot of effort and cash, especially since it is an increasingly competitive [...]
10 Business Books In 2010
These are the 10 business books published in 2010, that I would recommend you to read. Originally, I wrote this on Quora, in response to “What are must read business books of 2010?”. Yes, I have read all of them, and no, they are not in any specific or…
The Kno is Not a Tablet. It’s a Workout Device
Seriously. At 5 and a half pounds it’s not exactly a lightweight tablet you would want to hold for hours. I have a very simple test for you: if you have an average 14”-15” laptop around, flip it open, hold it vertically, just like this: … and tell me how long you could comfortably hold [...]
Why I’m Contrary on Compensation
When I was a teenager, I spent two summers working in a furniture manufacturing factory. The company, Steelcase, was (and still is) one of the largest office furniture manufacturers in the world. I worked in the binder-bin plant – a binder-bin is the cabinet that mounts on the back of your desk at about eye-level. [...]
Courier & Foldable Tablets are Neither Innovative Nor “Different”
This is a sad “I’ve told you” moment, as I predicted the death of dual-screen tablets, be it the one by MSI or Microsoft’s Courier, which has just been canceled. Says Frank Shaw, Microsoft’s VP of corporate communications: At any given time, across any of our business groups, there are new ideas being investigated, tested, [...]
Google FastFlip = FastFlop
When I look at these hieroglyphs on the the right, I see a bunch of pics carved into stone – a piece of art at most to my eyes. But they used to carry meaning, they were the form of written communication in ancient Egypt. Paper has certainly been more practical than stone, and afforded [...]
Kindle App For iPhone – Do Books On Clouds Matter?
Image via CrunchBase Amazon launched the Kindle App for iPhone yesterday night and it has set up a flurry of posts on Techmeme. I downloaded it yesterday night and played around with it. Now I am thinking whether it matters at all. iPhone already has two good book reading applications in the name of eReader [...]
