Category Archives for Innovation
→ The Cult of Amazon Prime
Jason Calacanis describes the world that Amazon Prime is enabling: All of these malls and choices seemed fun for a while, but Prime cult members have now won their freedom. They are opting for a simpler and more efficient form … Continue reading
→ This Tech Bubble Is Different
Jeff Hammerbacher, former research scientist at Facebook and now founder of Cloudera: “The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads. That sucks.” Great piece showing why it may be time to move past … Continue reading
★ 5 Lessons of Innovation
Greg Satell on Digital Tonto spells out 5 principles of innovation. (His post has a lot of good illustrations of these principles at play, and is worth reading first.) I then spent some time thinking about what they mean and wanted to … Continue reading
→ Louis Gray on Winning Unconventionally
Louis Gray gives some examples of successes that weren’t secured by learning best practices, but rather by thinking out of the box: There’s plenty to read on best practices of doing a startup or architecting a successful social network or … Continue reading
→ Are new technologies making us happier?
Courtney Boyd Myers, in a great long piece for The Next Web, explores the link between new technologies and happiness, notably from the work of Dr. Anna Akbari: Connected devices hold the same eye-catching allure as gold. We can’t take … Continue reading