December 31, 2008
The Running Year By The Numbers
As 2008 winds down, Amy and I are having a traditional New Year’s Eve filled with debauchery. She’s eating a bowl of tomato soup with cheddar cheese and crackers in ...
More on Disclosure
In response to my post The Dynamics of Full Disclosure, Jeffrey Kalmikoff – one of the co-founders of Skinnycorp (the dudes who do Threadless) wrote an add-on titled On trust, ...
Subsidies Snubsidies
Erin Griffith at PEHub has a dynamite link to a Calvin and Hobbes cartoon from 15 years ago that is a perfect description what’s going on today in the “subsidy ...
December 30, 2008
Renormalizing Denormalized Data
Yummy – that’s a fun tongue twister. It doesn’t quite mean “synchronizing data”, but it’s in the same family. I don’t have a better phrase yet for “renormalizing denormalized data”, ...
The Dynamics of Full Disclosure
A meme that regularly goes around the blogosphere is “full disclosure.” When someone blogs about something they have a financial interest in (e.g. an equity interest in a company) or ...
December 29, 2008
Books, Books, and More Books
I’m still roughly on my “book a day diet” through the end of the year. The last few were really good, with one exception. Here are my quick reviews in ...
Live as if you would die tomorrow, learn as if you would live forever
Yup – that’s a Gandhi quote that came from Om Malik’s great post What I Learned This Year. I encourage you to read it slowly and ponder it. With it, ...
December 26, 2008
The Re-Rise of Open Source
Kevin Kelleher’s article on GigaOm this morning titled 2009: Year of the Hacker made me think back to the rise of open source after the Internet crash of 2001. In the ...
Innovation and Creative Destruction
Fred Wilson has a magnificent post up this morning from Berlin titled Bits Of Destruction. In it, he nails a critical point about innovation.
“This downturn will be marked in history ...
December 25, 2008
Trust, The Healthcare System, and Saving My Dad’s Academic Life
My father, Stan Feld, is a retired endocrinologist. He wrote a beautiful blog post yesterday titled The Therapeutic Magic Of The Physician Patient Relationship: Part 1. In it he tells ...
Valuing Competence vs. Loyalty
Today’s lunch time conversation was about valuing competence vs. loyalty. In some organizations, loyalty is the most important attribute while in others competence is valued over loyalty.
I have a different ...
December 24, 2008
Reboot
Thomas Friedman has a phenomenal Op-Ed in today’s New York Times. Time to Reboot America. Whether you like or dislike Friedman, he’s nailed this one. Repeat after me: Ctrl-alt-del.
Recommendation – Ignore All The 2009 Predictions
Oh goody, they are here. Every magazine, newspaper, and most of the online publications known to man are putting together their “2008 year in review” and their “2009 prediction” editions. ...
December 23, 2008
Robots and Beer
Every male tech nerd (and some female tech nerds) that I’ve known has at one time or another has fantasized about a robot bringing him (or her) a beer from ...
December 22, 2008
Books on the Beach
Q4 vacation earlier this month was the site of my 43rd birthday (to those who wished me a happy birthday, thank you!) We spent the week in Cabo at the ...