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So I will be traveling all day Wednesday and basically Thursday. Substantive posting will hopefully resume soon after. In the meantime, here are a few items to keep you busy: Over at Advertising Age, Ana Andjelic discuss why digital agencies aren’t ready to lead. This article was originally posted over at her blog, i [love] [...]
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I know I have issues, but I love whiteboards. The best design aspect of my office is the fact that in just about every room there is an entire wall of nothing but whiteboard. To me, they are a great catalyst for creativity. Why? Because they are a blank canvass that allows you to dump [...]
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Daniel Pink notes an interesting statistic presented in the book See New Now: A study of the top fifty game-changing innovations over a hundred-year period showed that nearly 80 percent of those innovations were sparked by someone whose primary expertise was outside the field in which the innovation breakthrough took place. Think about that for [...]
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Really interesting article in the recent issue of BusinessWeek on the company Plug and Play, a Silicon Valley firm that has provided affordable and flexible infrastructure for tech startups since 2006. Plug and Play isn’t trying to design the next killer app or Web 2.0 experience. Instead, the firm provides the resources for up and [...]
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Scott Berkun discusses what he sees as the highest impact innovation in terms of books prior to the Kindle: The invention of cheap paperback books, Penguin makes books cheap enough for the average citizen (1935). This was a revolution in the U.S. as it made books cheap, portable and part of middle and lower class [...]
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Noah Brier discusses the interesting idea of a Request for Startups (RFS) that Y Combinator recently released: Yesterday Paul Graham announced Request for Startups, which describes a specific idea they’d like to see startup teams address and apply to build. As he explained, “There are a lot of startup ideas we’ve been waiting for people [...]
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Scott Anthony writes that in order to not merely survive, but to grow, companies and their leaders must come to grips with the fact that the ideas, products, and practices that helped them build their business will not be the same ones that help them thrive and grow in the future. He writes: A critical [...]
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Fiction
Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 1)
Non-fiction
The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball
Priceless: The Myth of Fair Value
The Numbers Game
Codes of the Underworld: How Criminals Communicate
Proofiness: The Dark Arts of Mathematical Deception
The Rational Optimist
The Quiet American
How Doctors Think
The Wisdom of Whores
Switch
Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory
