I was sitting at home this weekend watching some of the football games, and had the opportunity to watch both Apple ( primarily iPad, but the same is true of iPhone ) and Android ( various devices ) commercials. It made me think of a recent conversation with Anders about this subject The contrast is […]
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My wife had the great idea on our trip to Italy to take this same picture in lots of different spots in the country. This is our daughter in Montalcino. We met a great German family and got to be friends with them over the week we were in the same place. They told us […]
Books To Read – January 2011
Books I have read in the last six months that I would recommend: The Mesh by Laura Gansky This is a really good book about the future of business from a proven entrepreneur. In-depth analysis of ZipCar and other “sharing” models makes for interesting and thought-provoking reading. The Confession by John Grisham I have read […]
Observing The Generation Gap
Over the holidays at my in-laws, I took time to observe their behavior and compare it to mine. My in-laws are in their 60s. Each day they: Watched the local news on TV Watched the national news on TV Read the local paper for news Spent almost no time on the internet Carried no smart […]
Unfocused
I was reading a post by Michael Hyatt this week called ‘Why I Stopped Reading Your Blog’. A few of the points he made I agreed with, a few I didn’t. One of the points made me think for a while about this site, specifically his point about being unfocused. Michael is a great writer and a tremendous […]
Re-invention
One of the great gifts of being a professional in technology is the gift of re-invention. What was true of me yesterday does not have to be true of me tomorrow. As I was looking for opportunities to do something new, I made a purposeful decision to not focus on what I had been doing, […]
Apple
I was in a meeting the other day at a local technology company. There were seven people in there with me, and one on the phone. Every person involved in the meeting was using a Macbook Pro notebook, and had an iPhone sitting next to them. The lesson for me was not that Apple makes […]
The Sewing Machine
Every now and then I come across a book I had at one point wanted to read but for some reason let get off of my radar. Such was the case this past week as we traveled to Oklahoma to spend time with family. I found Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell sitting on my father-in-law’s bookshelf and […]
More And Less 2011 – Looking Ahead
More Shipping I spent the last few months of 2010 getting the foundation laid for what I hope is a successful 2011. Success in 2011 means shipping. Shipping takes on various forms for me. Communicating consistently. This past year, when I was doing 300 words a day on this blog, it was one of the […]
More And Less 2010 – Wrapping Up
At the beginning of this year, I set out to live differently. I called it the More And Less List, and it went something like this: More doing, less talking about doing More time with people I want to spend time with, less time with people I don’t More thinking about impacting the world, less […]