Archive for the 'Technology' Category


When Bad Leads To Good

I slipped on a curb. I was just walking, from the movie to the car, and I felt a twist in my knee and a pain right behind it and the first thing I thought was "There goes my ski season!" I’m paranoid that way. I realize it comes from experience. That time I slipped […]

More RFID

"What happened when a hotel armed social media-loving clubbers with RFID wristbands?" Technology is your friend. It’s not only Vail Resorts that has seen the power of RFID, now a hotel/club on Ibiza has gone from 4,000 Facebook fans to 70,000 over the summer, just by outfitting its guests with RFID-embedded wristbands. RFID stands for […]

More Winner Takes All

The goal of the rights holders is to create competition. They believe leverage is greatest when you can play one retailer off another. This is true, but it’s a complete misunderstanding of the digital landscape. Please read this article: Don’t Believe Facebook, Spotify’s The Only Open Graph Music App Winning At the end of last […]

Nobody Likes To Argue

That’s what Steve Jobs did best. Wrestle with concepts, do his best to tease out excellence. It’s what’s absent from our me-too society. There’s a culture of business books that teach you how to get along. As if life is a game with set rules and you only have to learn them to win. But […]