It’s always fascinating to look backwards every now and then to grasp just how far and fast things have come.
A short review of the history of the web: 15 years. It really seems like the web has existed much longer - like it’s always been there.
Link to 15 year history of the web… [...]
The 20 minutes I spent watching this presentation from the TED conference last February is among the most useful 20 minues I have invested in the last months. Rosling is an extraordinary presenter and he conveys key insights about how the world economy and public health have been trending over the last 40 years. You should [...]
[Cross posted at Future Tense]
Another excellent resource courtesy of James Robertson at Column Two. Good mental models are especially relevant in knowledge work arenas where so much of what we do tends to be invisible. This checklist should help you improve the models you make, whether for your own use or for broader consumption.
List of [...]
I just want to reinforce this point. It may be the single strongest reason why I continue to blog. Is there anyone out there who doesn’t need some more new old friends?
Picking up the Conversation Where We Left Off
Shel Israel has a post today about one of the most gratifying and unintended consequences of blogging: [...]
Bob Frankston has had several recent posts illuminating the long-term
strategic blindness of competitors pursuing doomed approaches to
Digital Restrictions Management (DRM). The short and sweet version:
DRM vs the Bathroom.
For those who found my recent DRM post too complicated I’ll put it more
simply. There are those who believe that I must not zap commercials
while watching their content. [...]
Some interesting tidbits from Gates about computing in the educational arena. The Chronicle of Higher Education has nicely placed the interview outside of their usual paywall.
The Chronicle Interviews Bill Gates. Bill Gates offered some predictions of the future and a defense of Microsoft’s security practices, in an exclusive interview with The Chronicle’s Andrea L. [...]
Shortly after last December’s tsunami, Dina Mehta and a group of fellow bloggers began what started as a blog (The South East Asia Earthquake and Tsunami Blog), grew into a wiki, and became an important experiment and case example of the power of new technologies to support and amplify bottoms-up organizational invention. [...]
Is there some procedure in law school that surgically removes any shred
of common sense or is it some on-the-job thing you pick up working in
particular industries? It smacks of Aristotleian science where any
attempt to observe the actual phenomenon was irrelevant in the face of
authority. Or for those of a more New Testament bent, much like [...]
Some useful advice worth passing along. Here's hoping you never have cause to take advantage of it.
Identity Theft is no joke - here's some free advice.
I just received this form a good friend. I know this is a bit off topic but ID theft is becoming a huge problem.
I’ve read some sobering stories [...]
All of the Copyfight coverage
of the Grokster case is worth following. This one reminds me the
differing mindsets of executives and policy makers. I was lucky enough
to learn strategy from Mike Porter as he was writing Competitive Strategy. His course was the hottest course at the Harvard Business School.
Several years later, I went back to [...]
