Morning Reading, selected articles of interest from various publications. Amazon Taps Its Inner Apple Jeff Bezos is trying to do to book publishers what Steve Jobs of Apple did to the music industry. With its iPod and iTunes Store, Apple carved out a largely virgin market so fast that it was able to wrest control […]
Morning Reading, selected articles of interest from various publications. Can We Reverse Aging By Changing How We Think? Langer and her Harvard colleagues have been running similarly inventive experiments for decades, and the accumulated weight of the evidence is convincing. Her theory, argued in her new book, “Counterclockwise,” is that we are all victims of […]
Morning Reading, selected articles of interest from various publications. Get Smarter, by James Cascio Pandemics. Global warming. Food shortages. No more fossil fuels. What are humans to do? The same thing the species has done before: evolve to meet the challenge. But this time we don’t have to rely on natural evolution to make us […]
Morning Reading, selected articles of interest from various publications. The Way I Work: Matt Mullenweg (founder of WordPress) I travel a lot, but when I’m in San Francisco, I usually work from home. Everyone else works from home, too. We’re a virtual company. We recently got an office on Pier 38, a five-minute walk from […]
Morning Reading, selected articles of interest from various publications. The Failed Promise of Innovation in the U.S., by Michael Mandel During the past decade, innovation has stumbled. And that may help explain America’s economic woes If the reality of innovation was less than the perception, that helps explain why America’s apparent boom was built on […]
Morning Reading, selected articles of interest from various publications. WalMart CEO interview (NYTimes) Q. So you find that people make business more complicated than it is? A. No doubt about it. I think that all of us read far too many business books. I’ve worked 30 years now in management roles, and a number of […]
Lamb on the spit A “freakonimics” example: It is a tradition in Crete to eat lamb for Easter – preferably lamb roasted on a spit. This year, a consumers co-op that runs a chains of super-markets, intervening to help consumers and producers both get a good deal, created an unpredictable result: lack of lamb for […]
Morning Reading, selected articles of interest from various publications. Matthew May interview on TomPeters.com about “In Pursuit of Elegance” Quite frequently, what we tend to do is leap to a solution because we want to control the outcome. Since October, I have read daily in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and other […]
Morning Reading, selected articles of interest from various publications. Scribd turns page from document sharing to selling Scribd’s biggest advantage is a system that will allow any document bought from its store to be read on different gadgets – a personal computer, an electronic book reader like Amazon.com Inc.’s Kindle or a sophisticated mobile phone. […]
Morning Reading, selected articles of interest from various publications. Has Google killed the riddle? (by Abraham Veghese) Which is why when I offered a new riddle to my students last week while we were rounding, I emphatically added, “Don’t Google!” Nothing at all against Google–we’re proud of Google at Stanford, and indeed my kid brother works there. But […]
