Contrarian view

Now there is a contrarian view -
Winblad also predicted that many of the offices that venture firms are opening in China, India and elsewhere around the globe will be shuttered in a few years given the localized nature of building companies and the industry’s track record in being reluctant to weather downturns in these [...]

What’s next

As somebody who has spend extraordinary (by my standard!)  amount of money on Apple products this  statement doesn’t sound very budget friendly to me:
I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out what’s next.

So [...]

Psychology of programming

I must admit we don’t rigorously follow lot of best practices related to ergonomics and space requirements for software developers. Bryan Dollery has a nice take on the softer (but very important) side of the software programming profession -
Flow takes time to achieve, and it is fragile. If a programmer’s flow is interrupted it [...]

Kaiser Wait-permanante

Finally managed to see the insides of new Kaiser hospital. It’s a new facility which is at the junction of Lawrence and Homestead.
This was a major bone of contention when I was living right across the street. There were several meetings with County officials about the height of the wall, location of trees, location of [...]

Wonder why it’s called Burn Rate?

Jeff Hawkins on how to speed your business:
Very few companies didnt succeed because they moved slow. Many companies went out of business because they moved fast.
He is a fun guy to listen to. Looks like Numenta is upto something very interesting. Looks very out-there but you never know once the applied side of the [...]

Catching up on Web2.0 using Web2.0 technology

Though not in the Bay Area to attend TIE event but I can still imagine the energy and am able to read interesting one-liners from the panelists.
Thanks to Zoli who did a great job of putting the session on his blog I can [...]

Still valid - It’s the fast that eat the slow

From Jason Jennings and Lawrence Haughton’s popular book - It’s the fast that eat the slow:

The greater the number of people who learn about your planned product or service, the greater the number of distractions you\’ll encounter.
Operating in stealth is becoming increasingly complex [...]

4 times more innovative

                Time and again Steve Jobs has proven that he is the real trend setter in the tech industry. He is consistently proving that innovation and user experience matters more in our current environment where everything from consumer electronics to arcane APIs [...]

Sticking around for the next one !

Mark Schwanhausser of Mercury News is painting a sober picture of Silicon Valley. One number which surprised me was this -
“..while 41 percent would pack up and leave if they could find a comparable job elsewhere”
Now 41% is a big number ! This doesn’t sound very positive for the place which is more of a [...]

Yahoo executing on the social computing gameplan

Yahoo knows pretty well that they don’t have Google’s hardware based secret sauce. To counter they decided to focus on the community and wisdom of crowd philosophy. It’s coming from the list of their recent acquisitions -
Upcoming
Flickr
and now Del.icio.us
Also their recent internal projects such as MyWeb, Shoposphere, 360 etc all point to one [...]