What Intelligence do you need as a company? Here are some ways of looking at intelligence you need to gather to stay competitive. Market/Industry Intelligence You need an idea of your marketplace, players in the space. You need to identify potential competition and partners. While you gather information about your marketplace, you may also want […]
What is your wish list for a table? (we have an iPad but I would like the following) A stylus for sketching and writing (my primary thinking tools) A book like design where I can open it up and read both sides or turn one side into a keyboard Half the size of current iPad […]
I started using email in 1986. But I was blissfully unaware of Internet till the first browsers appeared. I think we even bought an “Internet in a Box” in mid 90s. But starting 95 when we sold our company and 1997 when we moved to Silicon Valley (from Forest Hills NY), I can relate to […]
I was reading this fascinating post on Why do we miss disruptive innovations? … experts can’t be relied upon to pick the significance of breakthrough ideas and technologies. We become experts through extensive training in how to see the world in a particular way. A consequence of this is that real breakthroughs are often unheralded […]
Here is a Twitter app I came across recently – Twifficiency. I tried it and here is what I got. Pretty neat. I was happy with my score and even read the little blurb. Then I suddenly noticed a Google Ad on top right. That is kind of cool. So is this one way to […]
Here are alerts from tracking Python on InfoStreams (took out two entries for job alerts) There are 17 results for your Alert titled: Python lettuce 0.1.11lettuce 0.1.11 Behaviour Driven Development for python pyenchant 1.6.3pyenchant 1.6.3 Python bindings for the Enchant spellchecking system A multithreaded, concurrent version of map() (Python)A multithreaded, concurrent version of map() (Python) Python […]
Once in a while I try to look at what I am doing. A lot of what I am doing depends on the Top 5 Apps I use. Here are my current top 5. Here is how I spend my online time. In my offline I try to keep my meetings to no more than […]
Here is a recent tweet of mine. Seth Godin and Tom Peters on why blogging matters to any professional. http://bit.ly/9ZBx4v via @ducttape Here are some reasons I blog: It is a magnificent thinking tool. I think it has something to do with sitting down and writing. Sometimes, I just pick a link, a video or […]
I don’t really want my fictional characters to sing and dance while I am reading a novel. Having said that, I would love some animations in Science Fiction books. I would love to see some animations in technical books. Imagine that you are reading a chapter on a four stroke engine. Won’t it be nice, […]
A few thoughts. Educate people on innovation – what it is and what it is not. This education should include the difference between discovery, invention, ideas and innovation If you position innovation as exploration or experimentation, people will feel more comfortable trying a few. Provide some time for each person in the company to try […]