Little Brother, Doctorow, Cory
It may be time to get more serious about using PGP and learning about Tor. Little Brother takes us into a near-future version of San Francisco where Jack Bauer has clearly become the U.S. Attorney General. Marcus is a seventeen year-old high school student who likes to play video games, role [...]
The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures, Roam, Dan
One of the rules of thumb I learned in the early days of my consulting career was that your project wasn’t real until you had at least one napkin or placemat filed in your working papers with some sketch that captured [...]
I’m sure this will be making the rounds. It’s a good reminder about the value of failure. I found this courtesy of Brad Feld. Thanks for sharing.
Famous Failures
Great, inspiring video on failure.
(thanks Scott).
One of the unexpected rewards of blogging is watching those that you’ve influenced in some way going off and succeeding in their own unique way. If for some odd reason you are not already following Jack’s work, you should correct that mistake immediately.
Blogging for five years
I have been blogging for five years now. Amazing. My [...]
[Cross posted at FASTforward]
The phrase “technology for us” has been kicking around in my head for the past several months. At the FASTForward ‘08 conference, I took a first pass at articulating my thinking in a video interview with Jerry Michalski. Consider this my next attempt. I expect there will be more.
Technology for Them
Information systems [...]
[Cross posted at FASTforward]
Clay Shirky’s got a new talk and he’s taking it on the road. It’s stimulating a good bit of thoughtful discussion around the web. Here’s a video version of his talk:
Shirky has also posted a transcript of the talk on his site, if you’d prefer to read instead of watch. The [...]
