I don’t often wander too far into pop culture on this blog, but Esquire’s Chris Jones has a simply awesome profile of Roger Ebert that explores the man, dying and unable to speak, in the midst of his own personal renaissance as a writer. Ebert writes about his own impending mortality as bravely and candidly
Read More...Derek Sivers’ 3-minute TED talk on leadership lessons from this dancing guy got a standing ovation.
Read More...Jason Kottke reminds me of how much I’ve always loved fractals, despite not having the chops to understand them fully at a mathematical level. Like Kottke, when I built my 386-based computer (running at a searing 33 MHz) a zillion years ago, I remember installing a DOS-based fractals program that would attempt a deep dive
Read More...Like smart web content but hate juvenile comment bickering? Shutup.css is a custom user stylesheet that you can apply to your browser to hide comments on many popular websites (YouTube, I’m looking at you). Speaking of comments, Engadget put them on hiatus for a while and the folks over at Macheist have decided that their
Read More...While at one of our clients, we recently fielded a question about Nevada’s new data security laws and how they may impact a company and its HR operations. We’ve been able to find the following information think it might be useful to a broader audience. So, here goes. Nevada enacted a new data security law
Read More...Ignoring the fact that I just ended a headline with a preposition while asking what we should write about, I’d like to know what you’re working on or researching. This blog has grown in readership considerably since its launch in mid-2008. Since that time, we’ve written over 140 posts covering PeopleSoft, Business Intelligence (BI) and
Read More...Of course, life just wouldn’t make sense if I didn’t include a bevy of iPad links: Stephen Fry’s excellent iPad About. He gets the iPad’s weight in the future of computing. Stephen Fry again, this time on his personal blog, with one of the smartest essays about the iPad I’ve seen anywhere. This is top-grade
Read More...Fred Wilson is a VC and principal of Union Square Ventures. As a VC, he points out a consistent error made by entrepreneurs pitching their business plans: As I look over the business plans and projections that these entrepreneurs share with us, one thing I constantly see is a lack of sophistication in calculating the
Read More...How not to say what you mean in business. Why some comedy writers aren’t laughing at Jay Leno. Speaking of Leno, I’ve seen this all over the place lately, making its way around the ‘tubes. Baratunde Thurston speculates how MLK Jr. might have used Twitter. (“Who is Chuck Norris, and why is everyone tweeting about
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