Words are Important: Outside the Box

May 13, 2010
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Words are Important The business world seems to generate more jargon and buzzwords than goods and services these days. Words are being misused and abused. This is a disaster because words are important. When words can be made to mean anything, they mean nothing. Without precise meaning, we can’t form rational thought and the world [...]

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Words are Important: Transparency

May 12, 2010
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Words are Important The business world seems to generate more jargon and buzzwords than goods and services these days. Words are being misused and abused. This is a disaster because words are important. When words can be made to mean anything, they mean nothing. Without precise meaning, we can’t form rational thought and the world [...]

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Words are Important: Straw man

May 10, 2010
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Words are Important The business world seems to generate more jargon and buzzwords than goods and services these days. Words are being misused and abused. This is a disaster because words are important. When words can be made to mean anything, they mean nothing. Without precise meaning, we can’t form rational thought and the world [...]

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Is Google + Adobe a threat to Apple?

April 9, 2010

Google vs. Apple Remember the not-too-distant past when Google did Search and Apple made iPods and iPhones. They both had a minimalist aesthetic to their products, and both seemed to be obsessed with making computing simple and pleasant for their customers. Way back then, I thought a merger of Google and Apple could be the [...]

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Aftermath: Every Apple announcement ever (A Play in Two Acts)

April 8, 2010

ACT I: SCENE: Steve Jobs is standing on stage in front of a giant video screen. The screen is filled with a photo of Apple’s latest innovation – iProduct. Steve Jobs: Today, we’re releasing iProduct. It can do X and Y and does those things better than anything else out there. Hater: But it doesn’t [...]

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Facebook as a memorial

April 2, 2010

In November, my friend’s brother Sean passed away. Sean was a young man, and his death was tragic. Time has passed, and Sean’s family and friends are grieving and moving on in their own ways. However, Facebook carries on indifferently, churning through its algorithms, spitting out reminders to let me know I haven’t been in [...]

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Congratulations to the LHC team!

March 30, 2010

Research at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider began today at 13:06 CEST, when beams collided at 7 TeV. This is a groundbreaking moment in particle physics — indeed in science itself. The research promises to give scientists insight into the earliest moments of the life of the universe and to shed light on some of the [...]

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Amazon’s “Kindle for Mac” e-mail is two days too late

March 19, 2010
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I have a Kindle. I have a Mac. So, naturally when Amazon announced that there would be a “Kindle for Mac” application, I was excited. So excited, in fact, that I signed up to be notified by e-mail when the application would be available. Yesterday, I read on the blogs that the much-awaiting “Kindle for [...]

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What problem are you solving?

March 15, 2010
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In 1714, the British Parliament passed the Longitude Act, which set up a £20,000 prize to the person who could come up with a way to accurately determine longitude (where you are East-to-West) for a ship at sea. This was a major business problem for shipping between Europe and the New World that needed to [...]

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iPad: “Only” a Big iPod Touch?

January 28, 2010

Yesterday Steve Jobs introduced the world to Apple’s latest creation, the iPad. Say what you will about the name (you may have seen links to an old MADtv sketch for a completely different product of the same name), I believe Apple delivered a fantastic product. Does it live up to the hype? If it worked [...]

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