Jeff Nolan's take on innovation, entrepreneurship, tech and stuff that interests me
Insects freak me out… I really don’t like them nor feel any need to come to terms with my phobia about bugs. Reading this story about bed bugs on a British Airways flight made my skin crawl but it was this comment from the un-named BA rep that really made my blood boil: BA said [...]
This is one of the most interesting and insightful pieces of commentary that I have read in a long time: When the money of a society is defined as common property by a State, nearly EVERYTHING in that society necessarily becomes common property, since nearly everything in society has a price. If each individual actor in a [...]
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Remember the Peanut Butter Manifesto? Now we have the Burning Platform Screed… Silicon Valley loves memos like this. Memos don’t change companies any more than elections change politics. History is replete with examples of companies who in the midst of recognizing the cause of their long term decline failed to do anything differently. Memos don’t [...]
From what we’ve heard, the Chicago-based company doesn’t believe the commercials were misguided, but rather that it made a mistake by not directing folks to a Web site, where it was raising money for certain causes and matching up to $100,000 in donations. The site,SaveTheMoney.org, should have been mentioned in the commerciasl instead of expecting consumers [...]