Why is reading so hard to do? I don’t have a lot of answers for you, I have to be honest. But I want to think this through for myself, so – I thought – why not share my thinking publicly, and perhaps get some others’ opinions? A couple of weeks ago I went to a conference in another state and had to take a plane. While I was in the airport, flying between airports, waiting for my connecting flight,…
I started my career in risk management before eventually returning to my original passion – computing. Risk managers are always on the look out for opportunities and ways around problems. Watching companies flounder as a challenger enters the industry – or as technology changes – has always fascinated me. And seeing companies survive and thrive even as they looked beaten is even more exciting. Companies that failed It’s interesting to look back on industries that have been severely disrupted. Kodak…
There are two perspectives on life and after-life. “Only two?” you might reasonably wonder. I would argue that there are only two of all binary choices. You only have the choice between standing up and not standing up. If you choose to do anything other than standing up, you are choosing the other thing. There is subtlety here – you can do millions of things that aren’t standing up – but if the sets that you are working within are…