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Entries Tagged as 'Reading'

Does ‘seam carving’ generalize?

August 15th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Content management, Ideas, Reading

Tweet During a recent Charlie Rose interview with Peter Chernin, the subject of media formats came up, which reminded me of an earlier question I raised, “What is the natural unit of written collaboration?” When I mused upon this question it was in the context of documents and written content. I hadn’t really thought about [...]

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The Myths of Innovation

December 27th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Ideas, Inspiration, Non-fiction, Reading

Tweet Scott Berkun’s The Myths of Innovation is a refreshingly unpretentious read–one that I accomplished straightaway in an afternoon (off). Here are my takeaways–all quotes are Scott’s unless explicitly noted otherwise: Innovation as an accumulation of smaller insights…connecting pieces…realizing picture (puzzle); therefore, take action to enable insights to occur more freely. Work passionately and take [...]

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A fire has started, indeed

November 20th, 2007 · No Comments · Books, Content management, Inspiration, Reading

TweetI just finished watching Charlie Rose’s interview of Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos on PBS. Most of the conversation focused on Kindle: Amazon’s Wireless Reading Device, an amazing new device that embodies a vision to improve the act of reading. Kindle was the chosen product name specifically because it means to start a fire. The creative [...]

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Stuff and information

August 18th, 2007 · 7 Comments · Content management, Ideas, Inspiration, Lessons, Life, Reading

Tweet Paul Graham’s essay last month, “Stuff,” really resonates with me. I strongly encourage you to take a few minutes and go read it. Good, isn’t it?! Stuff appears to be a key contributing factor to the commoditization–er, evaporation–of my time. In fact, I can effectively replace “stuff” with “information” in Paul’s essay and feel equally [...]

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