There are some useful nuggets of information hidden within this latest talk by Kate Mitchell on Own your Own Success. The discussion on mentors and mentorship is one of them. Tweet
Read more →This is a nice talk by Tim O’Reilly on Creating More Value than you Capture Lessons Do Less Trend and theme to minimize interaction with the user, if the apps and devices can do things on their own without intervention Embrace Hardware Software Above the Level of a Single Device Came from David Stutz’s...
Read more →This past weekend I parted with my last Windows device. Actually, my last Microsoft Operating System device (though I reserve the right to get an xbox at some point in the future). This is after flirting with the idea of the Surface device (before its underwhelming acceptance in the marketplace). Goodbye Windows (3.1, 3.11...
Read more →The future of energy is both about the power of the rich (and the riches in the energy markets) as well as the dangers of certain energy sources. So it is about fundamental resources, ongoing innovation, economic risks and rewards as well as environmental and human costs. Tweet
Read more →I’ve found in my own workouts that there is a relationship between momentum, motivation and competition. One thing nice is that when motivation and competition fail, momentum can still carry the day and the week. Tweet
Read more →Originally published on Parliament Press as The Antisocial Life of Informaiton on April 9, 2013. I was one of the (apparently) skeptical few when hearing John Seely Brown’s job talk at UC Berkeley in 2001, ostensibly on his book The Social Life of Information written with Paul Duguid. Rumor was he co-wrote the book...
Read more →The Timeless Way of Building, A Pattern Language – Christopher Alexander (architecture). More to follow. Tweet
Read more →The nature of innovation and adaptation… What is impossible in December, Becomes possible in January, Actual in February, No longer acceptable in March Tweet
Read more →Goals can get way out of hand. I see this a lot in the running community in Google+. One would think everyone is an olympic athlete the way complexities and details are passed around and analyzed. This is a bit much, for two good reasons. Tweet
Read more →Here are three interesting items for February 5, 2013 – Two Hardware Kickstarters and a bit of Gun Violence research… Tweet
Read more →Evolution is about adaptation (and natural selection) but the part most interesting is the adaptation that is possible in our individual lives. This does not mean we can become another species in one generation, but that we are an adaptive organism. Some folks talk about evolution in the same terms as fate. While this...
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