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mobile drinking
This afternoon I popped into a corner coffee shop in the city to have coffee with a friend of mine. She was, in her own words, “super excited” as she had just launched (yesterday) her first iPhone application. She of course hassled me to download it, but apparently it wanted to download via the internet,…
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unknown, unknowns
I’m currently reading The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb [pls link to ] . Its a fascinating book that discusses why the improbable seems to happen a lot more than people expect. There was a section in the book that talked about the military and how they talk about “Known, Unknowns” and “Unknown, Unknowns”.…
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small stuff
Over the last couple of weeks I have written about moving all my systems online, so that I could take advantage of a low cost light weight (linux based) netbook. This project had the added benefit of forcing me to be a better collaborator. In previous blogs, I’ve covered off all the major items, so…
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Cloud Money
In 1998 I stopped getting paid to be an Accountant. I came to the conclusion that being a scorekeeper wasn’t satisfying enough for me, I want to be kicking goals, not cheering from the sideline. I called it – Getting in touch with my inner salesman. I said “stopped getting paid” rather than “stopped working”…
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Finding Free Time
A couple of weeks ago I had a panel at the Churchill Club talking about the differences between Exporters and Global Operators. One of the speakers was Simon Baker (he was great), recently of REA Group who had bought multiple on-line real estate operations while building REA into a global player. Anyway Simon and I…