by Tom | Jul 29, 2009 | Personal
It is coming up for time to replace my O2 XDA Orbit 2 / HTC Touch Cruise, which has been a good PDA and an OK to not-so-good phone (but that might have something to do with dropping it every so often).The front running options that I am considering are (not all out in...
by Tom | Jul 29, 2009 | Science
Great essay by Kevin Kelly mirroring work in Kurzweil’s The Singularity is Near. The insights that I hadn’t seen before were that exponential growth curves could be seen as being the summation of multiple traditional S-curves over time, and that the...
by Tom | Jul 28, 2009 | Business
Some nice McK articles on thinking coming out of the credit bubble deflating.There are power curves popping up across sectors and event types. We don’t really understand these kind of curves (lots of low impact / intensity events with the occasional shocker),...
by Tom | Jul 24, 2009 | Reading
Funny to see two ex-Wazzers in my email on the same day. The boss, the left-a-long-time-ago.
by Tom | Jul 24, 2009 | Reading
Wiffy brought my attention to this article in the Indy. While the “think of something in terms of some other measurement” often is misguided, I found that the statements here did make me think.[Update: Information aesthetics links to some more in the same...