Some things are easy to buy online. A few times in the past month I’ve gone looking for a soccer jersey for any of the many football (soccer to my fellow Americans) team I follow. Three futile hours later, I am considering changing which football I follow since stores can carry appropriately sized apparel for it. I’m…
My friend Dan posted on Twitter about the rumored buyout of Brizzly by Foursquare. Thankfully an update says this rumor isn’t true. What are examples of a bought software company where the bought product flourished better than before the buyout? I forget the name of the company who built a Twitter search only to be…
Whether or not people in the United State illegally are allowed to receive higher education is a hot topic at the moment. So I was curious what was in Georgia statutes about it. However, I was distracted by this gem: (b)Â Aliens who are subjects of governments at peace with the United States and this state,…
The claims in a commercial on WNEG-TV that liberals watch tennis and conservatives watch golf piqued my interest. So I found an article discussing it. Sports Viewers Largely Republican has a decidedly different focus. Liberals watch more TV while Conservatives watch more sports. The top 5 sports I watch are the English Premiership, the UEFA…
Interesting take on starting a movement. Leaders nurture the first followers like equals is what gets a movement to the tipping point. Notice the first follower is an underestimated form of leadership…. The first follower is what transforms a lone nut into a leader.
Images can be powerful. It is one of the many reasons why I enjoy both looking at photography and taking my own photos. Looking through Getty Images news photos hadn’t occurred to me. Then again, I am not an editorial editor. My sources are more things like Flickr or the Boston Globe’s Big Picture.
Yeah, I am definitely the latter consumer….
I agree all too often we think of our interactions with others as competition (a zero sum game where other’s loss is our gain). Instead, our fortunes are correlated with others, aka in non-zero sum game, so cooperation is the effective strategy (like Tit For Tat). Because non-zero is becoming more an more the norm, working effectively…