As 37signals approaches its 10th anniversary, Jason Fried’s excellent The End of the Edge Case blog post contains a closing sentiment that resonates with everyone here on both business and personal levels: As we approach our 10th anniversary, I’m reminded of what we’ve always known to be true: simpler is better, clarity is king, complexity
Read More...In the picture below, the bluish and greenish spirals are precisely the same color. Explanation here. Key takeaway: your eyes deceive you, as your mind has to parse the information they record. Lots of voodoo can happen during that processing, which is exactly how illusions thrive. The adventurous gambler could make a killing on this
Read More...David Brooks, writing for the New York Times, on what characteristics help a CEO succeed: C.E.O.’s with law or M.B.A. degrees do not perform better than C.E.O.’s with college degrees. These traits do not correlate with salary or compensation packages. Nor do they correlate with fame and recognition. On the contrary, a study by Ulrike
Read More...In the spirit of the E*Trade babies, here is Skating Babies, a brilliant spot done for Evian by BETC Euro RSCG. The music – which is brilliant – is Rapper’s Delight by Dan the Automator. Sure, it borders on uncanny valley a bit more more than the E*Trade spots, but it’s so amazingly well done
Read More...I know it’s a holiday week, but I’d like to take a little time to talk about PeopleSoft’s secret weapon when it comes to Enterprise Asset Management (EAM). That weapon? Integration. Look at the past to predict the future. When ERP systems first became available in the early 1990s, the functionality offered typically consisted of:
Read More...Interesting snippet from the recent Oracle earnings call: Question (Kash Rangan – Merrill Lynch) So if I read it correctly, it is going to be ERP supply chain [cerium] for everything, HR, everything on demand, delivered as a multi [inaudible] service from your data sectors to add to the subscription model, right. Answer (Larry Ellison)
Read More...John Gruber: That we had to wait two years for the iPhone’s text selection and pasteboard is a good example of one aspect of the Apple way: better nothing at all than something less than great. That’s not to say Apple never releases anything less than great, but they try not to. This is contrary
Read More...So today is 83 and it seems cool. That’s because the last few days have been nearly 100, the exact temperature at which human beings will readily cook on a sidewalk. It seems Spring got trumped something fierce and Summer showed up and took all the money. Spring just got a book deal for a
Read More...(click to enlarge) Requirements gathering. So many organizations don’t realize this is often where success in a Business Intelligence (BI) deployment lives or dies. When it comes to BI, we have all heard that BI is more than just simple reporting. That’s become the BI vendor’s mantra. However, the challenge we see all the time
Read More...“If there’s one quality of successful people, they’re unreasonable in their expectations of themselves, not so much other people, but themselves. Unreasonable in what they expect, unreasonable in the demands they make, unreasonable in how much they give. He’s [Nelson Mandela] completely unreasonable. And those are the people that rule the world. For a woman
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