Selling raisins used to be illegal in the US. Most markets – in the US at least – are dictated by the free market. Supply and demand set the price of most goods. Sometimes we need a little government or third-party oversight to make sure people don’t get hurt, but those are supposed to be …
In a forest every tree has to compete for light, so genes for growing tall trunks will do well and tend to spread in the gene pool, as all the trees carrying genes for shorter trunks die out in the gloom below. In the end, the forest will consist of trees that all have the …
So last month I decided to invest some serious time into understanding bitcoin. I don’t want to rehash (pardon the pun) all the great information on bitcoin, so what follows is a list of links to resources that I found useful in my quest to understand more about crypto-currencies. If you didn’t get my little …
If you know me well, you’ve heard my stories about how Ury and Fry’s famous Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In has made me tens of thousands of dollars and saved a few of my friendships! Wanted to post the gist of the book, what they call the Analytical Table of Contents here …
UPDATE 10:19AM – Everyone here is so super-pissed. Apparently, there’s nobody in the bay area who can help us out in under 12 hours. UPDATE 9:15AM – at 7:48AM, we seem to have collectively received an update from JetBlue via email. Thankfully, we all received a compensation. Unfortunately, the compensation was insulting. We were each …
My single biggest lesson from Tuesday’s class was that in all of the four companies we talked to (Facebook, 1185 Design, Experience Project, Cooliris) the buck still stops with the CEO. I’d definitely expect that in a 10 person company, but not in a 1400 person company. These leaders are involved not only with the …
Hmmmm…I need to stop putting these off until the last minute… Just like publishers need to stop middleman-ing authors…or that was at least the perception I got having talked to one author and entrepreneur on Thursday. What was so surprising thought was that the specific publisher and author I talked to had such opposing views …
Class #9 – Creativity under Pressure – Reflect on your experience in class today. It’s a bit late so I’m going to keep this very concise. Main takeaways: When under a time pressure have a blue hat/moderator keeping you on task (and lying about the remaining time if necessary). Make a plan and structure and …
First, some entertainment. I like to read but I don’t really like books. So I spent a few minutes questioning the assumptions we generally hold about books. The future of books – So I’m going to keep the reading and words parts of books but I might kill the paper, booky part of books. Paper …
