A few weeks ago, I watched a presentation from The Business of Climate Change conference wherein Jeff Rubin (@jeffrubin) articulated with compelling, if anecdotal, evidence that we are going to see $200 / barrel oil and $7/gallon gasoline within the next 12-18 months. Watch the video below: I don’t spend a lot of time studying […]
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Seth Godin – A Modern Day Howard Roark?
I just finished reading Seth Godin’s new book, Linchpin, over the weekend. Maybe I am just looking for some way to bring Ayn Rand’s Fountainhead into a discussion to sound really intellectual, but I found there to be a striking similarity to the messages contained in each book. Mr. Godin’s new book focuses on how […]
Windows 7 Was ( Not ) My Idea
I am sure you have seen the commercials where you have various “every man” characters claiming that their suggestions for Windows 7 helped to make it into the product that it is today. The commercials end with that catchy phrase “I’m Joe Blow, and Windows 7 was my idea.” I guess the message that we […]
What We’re Not Talking About
With the flurry of blogs and info being spewed out between yesterday and today about the coming of the Google Phone, the battle for mobile device supremacy is getting ready to escalate once again. Google is moving out of software and into the hardware business. What’s interesting to me is not that we have two […]
Who vs. What
I remember reading an interview with the head of M&A at Google ( at the time ) where he was asked a series of questions about what made the companies successful that Google had targeted for acquisition. One of the first points he talked about was the fact that it was extremely rare that a […]
Do You Think Craig Newmark Cares?
I was reading some news this morning, and came across this post about Craigslist blocking Yahoo Pipes, and indirectly a mash-up for a company called Flippity. There are cries abounding in all the major technology news sources. How could Craigslist block someone trying to use their data in new ways? Isn’t that what the web […]
The network effect – lesson learned
Recently the pastor of my church here in Raleigh received a request to assist the people in Pakistan whose homes were torched and burned and whose were people badly injured or murdered. If you did not hear about it, there were approximately 2000 families that were driven from their homes by Muslim radicals. The village […]
Bank of America Has Issues
I recently went thru the process of refinancing my house. My original mortgage was with BoA. I initially contacted my original loan officer and asked if there was an opportunity to keep my business at BoA, simply because we were already there. If it’s true that its harder to win a new customer than to […]
Does a rising tide float all boats?
I went to hear a lecture tonight on the campus of NC State given by Dr. William Easterly. Dr. Easterly is renown for his stance, overly simplified by me, that there still exists a double standard when it comes to freedom. That is, that rich people deserve to be free, and poor people deserve to […]