A new mind

Not sure I agree with the conclusion, but this book may be worth reading for interest.Designers, inventors, teachers,storytellers — creative and empathetic right-brain thinkers whoseabilities mark the fault line between who gets ahead and who...

Yale ain’t secure

Time to get a bump key for when I get locked out. All the more reason to use the Chubb every night. Can you believe that we didn’t for nearly three years?

Utility computing

Amazon launches a utility computing system. It’s more expensive than I pay (ten times more – which is cheap when you think about it given reliability) but is based on Amazon’s systems, which I imagine are pretty scalable and reliable. A very interesting...

Where next, Osama?

JRo brings his global guerilla thinking to the truce offered by bin Laden to America last month: “an Islamic tradition prior to an attack”. His prediction: not the scale of 9/11, based on systems disruption. Maybe the trip to Boston in October isn’t...

How do I cancel?

I agree with Joel; sites that don’t give a) some indication of the price / cost of their product or service and / or b) give you clear instructions about cancellation / moving away cause me to rank them last in any evaluation I’m doing. Looking at the...