Thought provoking

I built and sold a business that allowed me to retire at age 44. It was called Data Storage, Inc., information, knowledge, and records management is my jam. 10 Years ago I gave a speech about the half life of knowledge to a bunch of MBA aspirants at a university business school. This is the Twitter synopsis. The half life of knowledge is the ... See more

Leadership is an action, not a position.

we’re going to look back at how we designed the world around computers with the same regret that we look at how we’ve designed cities around cars

We value the virtual representation of an object more than we do the object itself (Walter Benjamin would like a word!) You can see this phenomenon as well in the proliferation of brands executing brief, localised wildposting campaigns in cool New York neighbourhoods. While these might catch the eye of a handful of locals, the value of these print ... See more

Taste is the bone-deep feeling that you’ve made something good. It is a sense, inexplicable and ephemeral.