Archives for the 'Culture' Category
Business Strategy Books Cont’d: Guest Post by Upstream’s Doug Weaver
The story so far (skip this paragraph if you already know): Last week, Brian Reich threw down a challenge about all business strategy books sucking, to which I replied, set up the Twitter hashtag #bizstratbooks, and additionally asked a few friends who read everything to comment. The first respondent was Accuquote’s Sean Cheyney, and today [...]
Do All Business Strategy Books Suck?
What explicit business strategy books have you read lately (or ever) that were worthwhile and why were they worthwhile?
“Flash Rebirth” #1: Just what the heck is going on?
A lot of folks know that I’ve been a comic book reader since I was five years old, so if you’re not remotely interested in comics then stop reading this short post and click to some other shiny object on the web. Background: Last week saw the return of a version of the DC Comics [...]
The Decline of Passive Knowledge
I enjoy the podcast This Week in Media (or TWIM, which sounds somehow R-rated), hosted by Daisy Whitney. One particular comment in the latest episode (I think it was by Alex Lindsay of Pixel Corps) provoked my interest. Alex mentioned that he and his wife do not watch broadcast television, preferring Video on Demand, downloads [...]
Local matters: is an impulse worth $10?
[Cross-posted with the iMedia Connection blogs.] Yesterday, wandering through CD Trader here in the San Fernando Valley, I spotted an unpriced copy of the first season of Veronica Mars, of which I’d only seen half. I took it to the front desk and learned the price was $29.99. “It’s a used price, but the set [...]
