Erin Griffith at PEHub has a dynamite link to a Calvin and Hobbes cartoon from 15 years ago that is a perfect description what’s going on today in the “subsidy

Yummy – that’s a fun tongue twister.  It doesn’t quite mean “synchronizing data”, but it’s in the same family.  I don’t have a better phrase yet for “renormalizing denormalized data”,

A meme that regularly goes around the blogosphere is “full disclosure.”  When someone blogs about something they have a financial interest in (e.g. an equity interest in a company) or

I’m still roughly on my “book a day diet” through the end of the year.  The last few were really good, with one exception.  Here are my quick reviews in

Yup – that’s a Gandhi quote that came from Om Malik’s great post What I Learned This Year.  I encourage you to read it slowly and ponder it.  With it,

Kevin Kelleher’s article on GigaOm this morning titled 2009: Year of the Hacker made me think back to the rise of open source after the Internet crash of 2001.  In the

Fred Wilson has a magnificent post up this morning from Berlin titled Bits Of Destruction.  In it, he nails a critical point about innovation. “This downturn will be marked in

My father, Stan Feld, is a retired endocrinologist.  He wrote a beautiful blog post yesterday titled The Therapeutic Magic Of The Physician Patient Relationship: Part 1.  In it he tells

Today’s lunch time conversation was about valuing competence vs. loyalty.  In some organizations, loyalty is the most important attribute while in others competence is valued over loyalty. I have

Thomas Friedman has a phenomenal Op-Ed in today’s New York Times.  Time to Reboot America.  Whether you like or dislike Friedman, he’s nailed this one.  Repeat after me: Ctrl-alt-del.