Top 9 “Apple” things I’d like to see in 2008

I love Apple products – and I’ve converted many PC users to Macs. But I often find some glaring things that I wish were’nt so about Apple hardware, software and service. So  here are some suggestions for things that Apple could do to make their products better and also some things that would make them [...]

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More on Peter Principle of Innovation

The earlier article got a bit of interest, a lot more than I expected, but also some discussion of whether it made sense at all. An example oft quoted is of Google. So using recent events I’d like add this post to underline what exactly the Peter Principle of Innovation says.
This week [...]

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Virus in a Petri Dish

What blocks a potentially viral product from actually achieving critical mass. I haven’t seen much discussion of that. Virus in a Petri Dish.

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The Peter Principle of Innovation

The original Peter Principle was a classic of the 70’s, essentially stating that “in a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to their level of incompetence”.
At that point they have reached as far as they can go in that organization and can no longer be promoted. As a corollary, the Peter Principle states, all useful [...]

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Hello world!

Hello blogospherical world! As friends know I have been blogging about tags and databases for a while at Tagschema . But since that blog is narrowly focused and I want to keep it that way, and I have other non-tagschemical thoughts bubbling up for a while now, I started this blog.
Since I [...]

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