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Engineering Culture 27 Aug 2013 | 11:13 am
I’m incredibly proud of this blog post by James OB, one of the engineers at Percolate, about why he likes the engineering culture at the company. The whole thing is well worth a read, but I especially...
Riding Through Mongolia 22 Aug 2013 | 12:30 pm
My friend Philip James is riding his motorcycle around the world. He’s just passed through Mongolia and his account is amazing. A snippet: However, this is what I’m here for, and I weave my way slow...
Setting the Stage for Innovation 14 Aug 2013 | 11:49 am
There is an interesting little article on innovation and Picasso over at Medium. Basically it suggests that radical innovation happens when the market is most receptive to it: Sgourev’s analysis of C...
The Economics of Doping 13 Aug 2013 | 11:18 am
Good short article from Wages of Wins on the economics of doping in sports. On the A-Rod situation: You may find yourself arguing: isn’t it costly for a player to sit out the games? If A-Rod is den...
The Apple Org Structure 12 Aug 2013 | 03:35 pm
Yesterday James, my co-founder at Percolate, sent me over a really interesting nugget about how Apple structures its company about 35 minutes into this Critical Path podcast. Essentially Horace (from ...
Curiosity Kills 8 Aug 2013 | 06:40 am
I’m a sucker for all quotes about how one thing or another was going to ruin society. Most of these are about media, but I couldn’t help myself when I saw this one about curiosity from an article on T...
Technology Advances Backwards 5 Aug 2013 | 02:06 pm
I really love this quote which came from an article Umberto Eco wrote about Wikileaks by way of this very excellent recap of a talk by the head of technology at the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National ...
Global Time 5 Aug 2013 | 11:57 am
In response to my little post about describing the past and present, Jim, who reads the blog, emailed me to say it could be referred to as an “atemporal present,” which I thought was a good turn of ph...
Advertising is Not a Tax for Being Unremarkable 4 Aug 2013 | 09:29 pm
I’m sure you’ve all seen this quote. It’s attributed to Robert Stephens, founder of Geek Squad, and goes something like: “Advertising is the tax you pay for being unremarkable.” (I was reminded of it ...
The History of Timesheets 4 Aug 2013 | 02:09 pm
This week’s NYTimes Magazine economics column is all about timesheets. While the whole thing is worth a read, I found the history of timesheets especially interesting: The notion of charging by units...
