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Book recommendation: The Monk and the Riddle

I’m surprised I waited so long to read this book by Randy Komisar, now almost a decade old, titled The Monk and the Riddle: The Education of a Silicon Valley Entrepreneur.
The book is a light read, I finished it between two short airplane flights to/fro Philly. Lots of this stuff is intuitive if [...]

A thoughtful response to fast growth: It’s all about the network effects

I read this post a few weeks ago by Joel Spolsky about growth and the need for speed (The post is entitled “Does Slow Growth Equal Slow Death?”. I thought to myself for a while and nodded… and all of the examples were spot on: Word vs WordPerfect / Oracle vs Ingres. [...]

Consumers don’t just want more, but Better

Great TED talk by John Gerzema. I won’t make another comment about skating to where the puck is headed, but you get the point.
“Did you know that 68% of Americans now carry a library card: The highest percentage ever in our nation’s history. What you see in this consumer trend is also the accumulation [...]

Wow. Hey Kathy, want a board seat?

Via the BettrAt blog:
Hmmm. As it turns out, we (BettrAt) actually want you to be awesome at what you do.
I just stumbled upon this by Kathy Sierra from O’Reilly radar. I always knew that Kathy was into helping users get better, but I guess I hadn’t kept in touch when she stopped blogging. [...]



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