July 2012
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Jul 5th
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Jul 2nd
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May 2012
5 posts
Drewbot: When will legal writing become a... →
Dude, wouldn’t lawyers be incentivized to write in ways that cannot be interpreted programmatically? Why would you eliminate your own job? Any half-decent New York corp lawyer could easily write in language that a machine could never successfully interpret. These are ai-complete problems. It’s not easy shit to solve. dbreunig: New York Magazine reports on an interesting...
May 8th
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May 3rd
“IF YOU’RE MAKING THE CUSTOMER DO ANY EXTRA AMOUNT OF WORK, NO MATTER WHAT...”
– Aaron Levie, CEO and cofounder of Box, from The Simplicity Thesis (via fastcompany) Ah, but outsourcing costs to customers is time honored, and many successful consumer experiences are exactly this sort: netflix, yelp, you name it. It’s more accurate to say that some customers are willing to...
May 3rd
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“IF YOU’RE MAKING THE CUSTOMER DO ANY EXTRA AMOUNT OF WORK, NO MATTER WHAT...”
– Aaron Levie, CEO and cofounder of Box, from The Simplicity Thesis (via fastcompany) Ah, but outsourcing costs to customers is time honored, and many successful consumer experiences are exactly this sort: netflix, yelp, you name it. It’s more accurate to say that some customers are willing to...
May 3rd
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April 2012
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Apr 17th
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Note Bene on Comparing Instagram to the Times
To all of you lovely people comparing the 1B dollar purchase of Instagram to the market cap of the Times: Your facile and unsophisticated comparisons are not useful or illuminating. Two words: control premium. Instagram is worth a billion with a control premium. That’s the premium for a controlling stake in the company, if you couldn’t parse it. The NYTimes stock is depressed...
Apr 10th
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The Smartest Thing I've Read All Day
“The whole idea behind sticky coordination is that people can solve partial equilibrium problems a lot more easily than they can solve general equilibrium problems. When a shock hits, each individual can solve for how his own reaction function should shift in response to that shock. But he can’t easily solve for the new Nash equilibrium point, because that requires him to figure out...
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March 2012
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Mar 27th
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“I wanted to write about the New York of people who come here and make new lives,...”
– Salman Rushdie in his Paris Review interview (via timpiste)
Mar 2nd
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February 2012
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Feb 12th
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Feb 3rd
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Facebook S-1, finally. Wordcloud for you to make...
Feb 1st
January 2012
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Jan 19th
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Jan 12th
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ATT versus Twilio? Really dude? First epically bad... →
Well, this is the first truly breathless post of 2012. I mean: hyperventilation. Twilio has gotten 33.7 million in funding. That’s about a third of a day of T’s operating cashflow. In case that didn’t make the silliness clear enough, ATT owns the pipes Twilio depends on. They won’t be giving those up any time soon. iMessage and AAPL are what threatens all mobile...
Jan 5th
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Jan 4th
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2012 Predictions
Predictions are fun! Here are mine, fired from the hip: 1. NFC mobile payments will not happen in 2012, and mobile wallet usage will be around low single digits of potential users, meaning, zero. 2. No one will introduce a successful competitor to the iPad. And no, the Kindle Fire doesn’t count. 3. Romney wins the nomination and loses to Obama. 4. Online content streaming takes a step...
Jan 3rd
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December 2011
5 posts
On making everything we do digital
The curmudgeon might say that the push to optimize every second chops the day into discrete, bounded blocks of time and drains them of possibility. It makes an assembly line of time and cheats us of opportunities for revelation or surprise. Put another way: would any of us really want to know how many days we have until we die? - Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker.
Dec 26th
the aforementioned preso
Michael Porter, Adaptivity, and Digital Strategy View more presentations from John Winterkorn
Dec 23rd
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New preso →
I made a short presentation touching on some things that have occupied my thoughts lately. It’s about the role competition plays, how we think about it from a Porter perspective, and what that means for companies facing constant disruption. I believe the implication is that aggressive strategy is more potent than ever, and that adaptivity as a core capability is essential to conducting...
Dec 22nd
Dec 2nd
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Impressions and Digital
Impressions are slung around a lot. They are easy to understand because they work across all media types and hold roughly (debatably) equivalent significance across all media types. The minimal thought required to process them is an advantage for measurement. I posit that thinking too hard about digital impressions is a losing game. The scale just isn’t the same for what we do. I’ve...
Dec 2nd
October 2011
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