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Feed SubscriptionWork Smart: Live And Work With A Bias Toward Action
I set out to find the best process for managing projects, but couldn't. That's because the best ones are all DIY. However, I did discover a theme: A bias toward action
Read More »Building A Steep Trajectory Of Improvement: The Pret A Manger Case
Building a magnetic product is never a one-shot deal.
Read More »The Human Experience: Apple and Standardized Personalization
Like others, I learned of Jobs’ passing on an Apple device. S and I were just on our way out the door to pick up dinner when I hit the Facebook app on my iPhone.
Read More »New iPhone Carriers Aim To Control, Or Profit From, Mobile Data Consumption
Since the iPhone first arrived on the scene, it has been used to access mobile data like no other device before it .
Read More »Celebrating Ada Lovelace Day
Lady Ada Lovelace was a contemporary and colleague of Charles Babbage , he innovator of the programmable
Read More »This Week In Bots: Think You Better Dance Now
ASIMO Dances Honda's child-sized android may be the world's best-known real-world robot, even though his practical white paint job isn't as snazzy as C3PO's gold-plated goodness. Over the years, ASIMO's skills have gotten ever more spohisticated as Honda's research scientists look at improving his software, drive units, and sensors to give him better control over his body, and more artificial intelligence to let him manuever under his own control and navigate around unexpected objects (the kind of task androids will need to master if they're to help us in our homes or hospitals). But now the Automaton blog has seen a demonstration that ASIMO is now smart enough to copy your dance moves
Read More »Drought-Stricken Pacific islands Down to Last Few Days of Water
WELLINGTON (Reuters) - A drought-stricken Pacific island nation is down to its last few days of water, prompting a mercy dash by New Zealand and Australia with water-making equipment. Tuvalu, the world's fourth-smallest nation sitting just below the Equator, has declared a state of emergency and is rationing water. [More]
Read More »Conflict For Its Own Sake Is Not An Option, But It Can Also Create Positive Change
The theme of conflict is one that influential leaders come back to again and again. While it's something many of us fear--for good reason--if used properly, it can also get people to engage and buy in
Read More »If Steve Jobs Had Applied His Talents To Energy And Climate Change
Steve Jobs created innovative products that change the world of technology. Imagine the other industries he could have disrupted
Read More »Book Review: The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), worldwide military expenditures have been growing annually for the past 15 years, and between 15 and 20 major armed conflicts--yes, wars--are in progress as you read this. All told, upward of 175 million people died in war-related violence during the 20th century, plus another eight million because of conflicts among individuals. Even so, according to a weighty new book, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (Viking Adult, 2011), by Harvard University psychologist Steven Pinker , the "better angels" of human nature have actually brought about a dramatic reduction in violence during the past few millennia.
Read More »Seth Godin: You Should Date Your Customers
The marketing expert offers his tips today at the World Business Forum on what innovative marketers are doing to lure new customers to their brands. "Have we branded ourselves to death?" Seth Godin asked the audience Thursday at the World Business Forum in New York City
Read More »The Future Foretold by Jobs, 22 Years Ago
An intense Steve Jobs revealed his vision of technology's future to Inc.
Read More »Mozilla CEO Gary Kovacs On The Fate Of Firefox In A Mobile Era
Firefox is one of the world's most popular desktop browsers, with more than 450 million users. But as the world increasingly turns to mobile devices to access the web, Mozilla is in danger of getting left in the dust. A recent Pew report found that roughly 68% of all smartphone owners access the mobile web on a typical day; what's more, 25% of those users go online mostly using their phone (rather than, say, a PC)
Read More »Entrepreneurs Remember Steve
Upon news of Jobs's death, entrepreneurs shared an outpouring of personal condolences, anecdotes, and inspirations via Twitter, Facebook--even the iPhone. From Mark Zuckerberg to Jack Welch, we showcase them here.
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