Last week I came across (via Mashable) an interesting new entrant in the emerging category of Personal Relationship Management software: SocialMinder. They describe themselves as “an online assistant that helps you maintain relationships with your LinkedIn network,” and at the moment it’s a reasonably accurate description, but I think it understates the real potential of continue…
I’ve always been big believer in background processing, the idea that the subconscious brain is always working to solve problems whether we’re aware of it or not. So I was delighted to stumble across a recent New Yorker article describing a group of neuroscientists who had actually mapped and isolated the mechanisms by which this continue…
One of the little luxuries afforded by last week’s getaway was the chance to read a book cover-to-cover (somehow having kids has crushed my ability to carve out uninterrupted reading time). I took two books on the trip but only finished one: Radical Evolution by Joel Garreau. I was already familiar with the idea of continue…
I got a call two Saturdays ago from a childhood friend who now lives in LA. A family trip to Utah had just fallen through but he didn’t want to cancel entirely; could I get away for a few days midweek to join him in the desert? I checked my calendar, talked to my wife, continue…
I’ve been putting off writing this post in the faint hope that I’d come up the learning curve and all would be well, but I can’t put it off any longer. In my last post, Embracing the Cloud, I described my decision to wander off the operating system reservation and pick up an Asus Eee continue…