chapter four – my 30s
I was having a conversation with some co-workers about business models and the like when we came onto the topic of Spotify. I’m a big, big, huge, big fan of Spotify. Think it’s a great service. And if Apple ever allows their iPhone app to go onto the app store I’ll probably sign up for [...]
Karim Kanji asked me to write a blog post about, well in his words via twitter “I was thinking abt various places u’ve worked (cities) & the great things abt them for u?” for his blog. It’s a topic I’ve thought about, I wrote a bit of a critical post about Monocle magazine’s top 25 [...]
I’m not always a big fan of acquisitions. Especially when the companies involved still have some growing to do, which is why I’m glad Twitter, Facebook, WordPress and others have stayed independent while MySpace and others have been acquired. I think a lot of times acquisitions stop companies from being focused on what got them [...]
The Economist had a report a couple of weeks ago on the impact of ageing populations on society’s ability to care for the aged, especially with slow growth and labour shortages. The article has got me thinking about retirement quite a bit. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not planning my retirement per se, I live [...]
So a couple of things from the last post. 1 – I had a copy of Flip sitting on my bookshelf, and it has a chapter on Good, Fast, Cheap pick three. I must have read the chapter overview when I picked it up a month ago, reading it now and will add some more [...]
While going through the pictures of the Obama White House on Flickr I came across a number of pictures of the President at play. With the new first puppy; There’s a ton of others, Obama with a basketball tossing a football in the oval office etc. Lots of great pictures. I love this for two [...]
I don’t usually participate in meme’s, but the meme Jim Byford tagged me with is a pretty good exercise. Not to mention the fact that I haven’t written a post in December yet, I needed to be inspired and Jim’s post did the trick. A site called Mindapples has started a meme asking people to [...]
This spoof video shoot for Beyonce’s single ladies from SNL just made me laugh and laugh and laugh. Justin Timberlake is hilarious. Update: Freakin NBC Universal has claimed copyright and the video’s been taken down on YouTube, it’s still on Vimeo here: http://www.vimeo.com/2275591
Two interesting articles today got me thinking. The first from Ad Age by Martin Lindstrom looked at the return on investment of sponsoring American Idol by Coke, Ford, and AT&T. The second from the conversation starter blog by HBR contributor Sarah Green on Sarah Palin being unauthentic and that leading to her downfall. The Lindstrom [...]
Portugal 2008 Originally uploaded by farhanlalji In Lisbon a couple of weeks ago, we came across this restaurant that did Indian and Italian take away food. Interesting. Here’s my question, can you do two things that different – and in my opinion Indian and Italian food is pretty different – and do both well? My [...]