I can’t possibly do justice to his great post, but Andrew Chen has been doing user interviews to understand how people think about their web of personal relationships, and his conclusion matches up well with my own intuitive sense for where the useful social graph really lies: it’s not Facebook, it’s not the inbox, it’s continue…
Diving deeper on my current obsession with data portability and legacy datastores, here’s an idea that someone’s probably already working on and that should definitely see the light of day (with a nod to my friend and colleague Dave Naffziger for inadvertently planting the seed last April). First, a pair of assertions: Humans are peer-obsessed; continue…
I read with interest (and even some excitement) this week’s announcement from the Data Portability Workgroup that both Google and Facebook had signed on to (in principle at least) make their users’ social graphs and other information portable across applications. It makes perfect sense that these Web leaders would be among the first to see continue…
Since I began my professional “career” I’ve gravitated steadily from larger to smaller organizations. At first this was an intuitive rather than a considered objective (I’m an INTP, remember?), but over time it’s become an explicit requirement. At one point I tried to codify the “acceptable” size for an organization in terms of numbers of continue…
I’m cynical enough about Presidential politics that it’s hard to admit, but I’m genuinely excited by Barack Obama’s candidacy and have been steadily raising the personal stakes of my commitment to his campaign over the past year. His win tonight in Iowa is another strong puff of wind in that sail, and for the first continue…
I first encountered the Meyers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) as a 23-year-old project manager at AT&T Universal Card Services (brief digression: the credit card industry is a great example of how the Hippocratic Oath of Business is violated every day by some of our most trusted brands). Every “manager” in the company was required to complete continue…
I turned my work brain off somewhere around my last post (December 21) and spent the past two weeks playing with my kids, spending time with my wife, cooking (and eating) great meals and catching up with friends and family. It was great to tune out for a while, but now I’m sitting in front continue…