Kent Anderson reviewed Jaron Lanier's book over on the Scholarly Kitchen: I started Jaron Lanier’s recent book, “You Are Not a Gadget,” skeptical of his initial opinions. His complaints about standardization and today’s limiting philosophy of information technology didn’t impress me at first — after all, we had to embrace standards around electricity, electromagnetic spectrum… Read More
My husband recently pointed me to an interview with Rory Sutherland and the following video of his TED Talk. Similar to Predictably Irrational and Nudge, Sutherland's view is that people don't make decisions on pure economic value alone. Intangible value plays a large role, although many are loathe to admit it. "There is a basic… Read More
Image via CrunchBase I found this fascinating quote today: Earlier this week, I wrote about the management trap that occurs in industries undergoing disruptive innovation. David Smith from CABI forwarded this presentation from Netflix to me. It’s excellent, and deserves to be shared widely.Kent Anderson under, The Scholarly Kitchen, Aug 2009 Culture View more presentations… Read More