Archive for February, 2009

Conversations about bit torrent

I have a mate called Marts who I’ve known for 25 years.  Marts is always completely bloody minded and the stories about him are legend.

He was fired from his first job two weeks in because he altered the artwork on his business cards to get a job title he felt amusing.
His ex wife was driven [...]

5 Innovation Lessons

A book title that really appealed to me was “Why things Fail” by British Economist Paul Ormerod, so I picked up a copy last year.  The book is a study into similar patterns of failure that appear in a variety of  different environments (biology, geology, economics etc).  The guts of the book (warning spoiler ahead) [...]

consumer innovation

One of the things that I love about my iPhone is that is a fully fledged 16gb iPod as well as a multimedia device and phone.  Every time I go for a drive (or catch a tram) I am now entertained and or challenged by podcasts that I subscribe to (they automatically [...]

Ambassadors of Hate

I was reading Michel’s piece from last week “Let Culture be your Guide” and it occurred to me that Michel didn’t talk much about the people that were let go.  Other than “we let them know why they were going and we worked with many of them again in the future”.  Her article [...]

the other networking

This morning I got a message from my niece on Facebook, two messages from colleagues on Linkedin , 1 SMS messages and a couple of dozen emails.  Which got me thinking about networking.  I use social networking tools LinkedIn and Facebook regularly (not heavily) but probably not the way most people think.  I tend to [...]

The Boogey Man

One of my relatives occasionally drives me mad with his worrying: How would it look if he failed? What would his wife say? What if he didn’t like it?
His worrying almost always to takes the same form.
1.    Identify the worst case outcome (eg usually a combination of bankruptcy/divorce courts/public ridicule).
2.    Don’t explore it any further [...]