About time. And product. And being more deliberate.
There are a small number of NFL games I watch each season. Sunday’s Vikings vs. Packers game always makes the list. Sitting in the comfort of my own home – just a couple miles from where this down-to-the-wire game was played – my mind wondered how engaged I was in the game. I sketched out …
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Financial Shock A 360º Look at the Subprime Mortgage Implosion, and How to Avoid the Next Financial Crisis is an amazing read. Amazing for 2 reasons: It was published in early 2008 and is covering – in-depth – the issues the news media is just now picking up on – e.g. the Fed nearly bailed …
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“So build something that you use all the time, and, unless you’re really weird and different from everyone else, you’ve got a potential winner.” – Tim Bray.
If para-athletes continue to innovate and set records like this – space technology knees and backflipping wheelchairs – it’ll be their games, not their fully-able-bodied counterparts’, that will be the more inspiring viewing. (thanks to Boing Boing for the pointers)
I’ve been thinking about information – ‘news’ if you will – quite a bit lately – in the context of other things we ‘consume’ – beverages. Milk Wine Kids drink it Adults drink it Paired with cookies Paired with dinner Expires/Smells funny “Gets better with age” Homogenized Vintage Price varies …
We’ve been introduced to a number of crazy characters this election season; Joe Sixpack, Hockey Mom, Senator Government, and Joe the Plumber. Signs of Jumping the Shark #18: “Introduction of new characters to revive interest, particularly young, cute children who are clearly intended to replace regulars who once were but have grown up.” “In the …
“Startups are all about launching things that are not ready for prime time—because startups don’t live in prime time. You can always rush to make something ready if people like it. Except when you can’t.” – Evan William, Founder of Blogger.com, Twitter.com
In March 2007 (18 months ago), I wrote the following 2 sentences – thinking there might be an interesting short story in behind them. A kind of eco-post-apocalyptic-new-world-esque thing. The contemporary version of re-visiting the grandparents’ abandon, run-down farm in Iowa. “Future world where ex-urbs are re-claimed by the government and turned back into farmland …
Driving back from WI this weekend, the car had alerted us a number of times we were running low on fuel. We didn’t stop. Until we reached the station closest to home (albeit one a few cents higher than the one we passed a few minutes earlier). The car has a 14 gallon tank. 14 …
“Skydeck is now focusing on building features that it can charge for, instead of free services that attract users but not revenue.” – Brad Stone, New York Times Thank [your-preferred-deity-here]. You know I have a pet peeve with ‘businesses’ where the metric of success doesn’t start with a $. Perhaps Web 2.0 will end the …