Here is an observation about the internal use of Social Media in Business - News from USA TODAY Beyond advertising on Facebook or Twitter, companies are using social networks to build teams that solve problems faster, share information better among their employees and partners, bring customer ideas for new product designs to market earlier, and redesign… [Read more…]
May 13, 2012
My wife and children make fun of my speed of ironing (pressing) clothes. I seem to take about 3-4 times the amount of time they normally take. After a bit of analysis I came to the following conclusions: I use ironing time as thinking time. So I seem to mindlessly do the same thing over… [Read more…]
May 13, 2012
From letter to prospective shareholders, which is included in the IPO prospectus. Philosophy worth quoting and emulating: “Facebook was not originally created to be a company. It was built to accomplish a social mission.” “We think it’s important that everyone who invests in Facebook understands what this mission means to us, how we make decisions and why… [Read more…]
May 4, 2012
A bit poetic, perhaps. But I love this first para in what is termed as “Epic Mission Statement” of Knowledge Mosaic. Knowledge bends light and splits atoms. Knowledge plumbs darkness and scales heavens. Knowledge witnesses the birth of everything from nothing. Knowledge peers around corners, and heralds the dawn. Knowledge gathers together our partial, splintered… [Read more…]
May 2, 2012
I finished reading 42 Rules of Product Management. Here are some snippets from this book. On Learning and Product Managers “The most successful product managers I have known were as comfortable reading Michael Crichton as they were reading Applied Economics. In fact, they spent much of their time in between meetings reading the latest analyst… [Read more…]
May 1, 2012
Simons Foundation chooses U.C. Berkeley for Computing Center for research: the growing influence of computer science on the physical and social sciences. An interdisciplinary array of scientists will explore the mathematical foundations of computer science and attack problems in fields as diverse as health care, astrophysics, genetics and economics. Part science and part engineering, computer science… [Read more…]
April 30, 2012
I was just reading Apps, Gaps and Equilibrium: Businesses and IT are facing a world of Apps, where the supply of technology vastly exceeds business demand or IT’s capacity to implement, integrate and operate. The world of apps is a world of technology, as opposed to a world of gaps dominated by internal IT. This… [Read more…]
April 29, 2012
Sometimes the simplest problem we solve so effortlessly takes quite a bit effort to solve using programming. However, thinking through the steps (and actually implementing) was worthwhile. It taught me a lot more about the problem and made explicit many of the thoughts I did not even pay attention to. The problem was a simple… [Read more…]
April 29, 2012
This was a fascinating excerpt to read. Following this fragment of the discussion that took place more than 70 years ago required some thinking. Here is some context: It is not difficult to imagine a mind to which the sequence of things happens not in space but only in time like the sequence of notes… [Read more…]
April 26, 2012
As a Product Manager, your job is to document and clarify and share every bit of thinking with the rest of the team. It is not just the spec, but how it evolves, why it evolves the way it does, how each interaction with the team and potential users, shifts it a bit. I like… [Read more…]
May 18, 2012
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