A friend of mine posted a Facebook entry saying his 30,000+ person company is encouraging people to be entrepreneurial. I replied with a remark that I couldn’t imagine a less likely place to find entrepreneurial behavior.
Much to my surprise, he was surprised that I was surprised. But that’s not surprising. It turns out that at [...]
My friend Bob Kerns blogged about Stephen Wolfram’s “Alpha” project. The project aims to take on Google by creating a web-retrieval engine that can answer specific factual questions directly. Type in, “how many angels can dance on the head of a pin?” and it will go out to the Web, retrieve the answer, and tell [...]
You know, I just can’t help feeling outrage, depression, and cynicism at the Big Three auto companies asking for a taxpayer bailout. Twenty years ago, we read cases in business school about how American auto manufacturers had already fallen behind foreign imports in production capability, cost structure, and market responsiveness. At the time, this was [...]
After Podcamp a couple of weeks ago, I was interviewed by Wade Roush for Xconomy on entrepreneurship, happiness, and coaching. Hope you enjoy the interview!
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Ryan Allis is the 23-year-old founder of iContact.com, the web’s second biggest marketing website. Ryan spoke in this podcast about how he ended up where he is and the role passion plays in business. This is a companion interview to the Get-it-Done Guy podcast, “Passion Play.”
I just ran across this article on how consultants (mis-)measure productivity in software development.
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/11/10b.html
Sad to say, I couldn’t agree more with the article. I started my career as a software engineer, and I’ve met very few people who understood what software is or how to measure it. When it comes to measuring productivity of software [...]
I was just reading an article on the impending water shortage. Most of us are totally in the dark about it, but for years, people who track such things have been warning that our water usage is coming close to surpassing the world’s available fresh water supply. MIT’s Technology Review magazine was writing about it [...]
