Category: Thoughts
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The Right Of Way vs. Doing The Right Thing
This evening I was driving home, we almost got in an accident. We came upon a police car with it’s lights on, parked on the inside lane (presumably having pulled someone over). We passed on the outside lane slowly and as we did the car who had been pulled over started to pull into our…
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A Male Soap Opera
Last year, Ann and I went to a Lucha Libre (Wrestling match – ala Nacho Libre) in Cuernavaca, Mexico. It was a very interesting cultural experience and actually increased my respect for those producing ‘Professional Wrestling’. We showed up to the ring and took a spot with the standing-room only crowd up in the balcony. …
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The Value of Objects
Back when we moved to California, I had to clean out all of the stuff that we had in our garage and decide what to keep and what not to keep. Most things you find in the garage have some kind of utility at some point in time or to some other person, but their…
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Funniest Comic on Editors
This is one of the funnier comics I’ve seen on editors in a long time: XKCD – On Editors
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The Propagation of Platforms
As the software industry continues to mature, it’s interesting to see the progression of platforms and applications. After watching the launch of the iPhone SDK, it’s interesting to compare Apple’s strategy with other platform strategies (Windows, Google, Salesforce, Facebook, Intel). Traditionally, Apple has been extremely protective of it’s use model, wanting to make sure that…
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“Clover” Coffee
I’m presently drinking what could be the best cup of coffee I’ve ever had. It was expensive though, $6, for a Cup-Of-Excellence (COE) winner from Guatamala. It was made with a machine Clover at Ritual Roasters which is in San Francisco. One of my friends recently showed me an article about this coffee machine which…
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Words and Meaning
One thing I have been struck by lately is how words represent abstractions of a concept or meaning. We use them as short cuts for communication. They remind us of other conversations where the words took shape. What’s most interesting though is that no word has an absolute meaning, but only what we have learned…
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“enough money”
I was reading Slashdot this morning and came across this article I find the reasoning that “Apple already has enough money so they should stop trying to make it” pretty funny, on two different accounts. First, because we all think this way, “Someone has enough money now so they should stop trying to make it”…
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Free Prize Inside
I just finished reading, Free Prize Inside by Seth Godin. Another very worthwhile read by Seth. The primary ideas build on the foundation of creating products that are remarkable and thus able to inspire conversations between the consumers. One idea that he suggests is that of doing “Edgecrafting” instead of brainstorming. The idea is to…
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Tijuana & Marketing
My wife and I recently visited Tijuana. The central downtown amounts to a ton of people hanging around stores that are nearly identical with a huge mishmash of trinkets. They way they address the marketing question is large signs, and people standing out front trying to get your attention with boring phrases “Come in and…