Last-Minute Lunch

On the way back from my Monday morning meeting, I was pulled into the Rainbow to pick up a baguette, some cheese, and salami. Yes, one of my favorite lunches – but why now, why today?

Turns out, I had a very important, last-minute lunch meeting:

Beware of Geeks Bearing Platforms

“Building on top of someone elses (Apple’s) platform is getting scarier and scarier. They are constantly making sweeping changes that effect our bottom line and provide no transparency, or analytics of almost any kinds, for devs. If I didn’t know better I’d say apple hates devs and thinks of us only as a necessary evil… Just throwing us enough of a bone to not jump ship.” – tseabrooks

“When Flipboard becomes [a way to bring advertisers in front of our community], I would love to reengage and reinvigorate our product. Until then, we have to wait and see and not allow intermediaries to build their own platforms without direct monetizable benefit back to us.” – Howard Mittman, VP and publisher, Wired magazine

The most important things are quiet

“…it’s easy to be distracted and place value on outside noise instead of focusing on the task at hand or important things in life. With this…I am taking myself out of FB and quieting the noise around me. It’s just not necessary for me to keep in touch with those that mean the most to me.” – a recently deactivated Facebook friend