
Was Einstein “bright”?
Image via Wikipedia I read this and thought about the industry I have called home for 21 years: Mr. Katz was echoing Feynman’s thought when he pointed out: “And yet, brightness has become its own virtue. We’re impressed by candidates who appear ‘bright.’ I think this reflects the fact that this is the age of […]

Blue Oceans and Quanta of Competitive Differentiaton
Do markets drive “AND” to the exclusion of “OR?” Sometimes it seems like it, but the reality is deeper and more mysterious. This post was sparked by an interesting discussion among the Enterprise Irregulars group. They were discussing how WebEx had steadily made their offering more and more difficult to love through feature bloat and […]

Critical Mass: Bringing Physics to Social Network Pablum
I have been meaning to get a few ideas down about Philip Balls’ Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads To Another for a while. After all, it pretty much blew my head clean off. I totally loved the book – its changed my thinking more than any work of recent time. How I got to […]