Business & Economics

Business & Economics
| 07/22/2009 | Jeff DeChambeau

Introducing Ameritocracy's Insight on Wikinomics

As you may have noticed, Wikinomics.com has a new feature. It’s an in-text feedback system called Insight, and had a soft-launch late last week (see the persistent bar at the footer of the page). Already …   Read more

Business & Economics
| 07/18/2009 | Naumi Haque

Social network analysis: Cool tools from cool dudes

Okay, so neither Charles Armstrong nor Vinicius Vacanti are really “dudes” in the Jeff Bridges, “The Dude abides” sense of the word – in fact, far from it. Armstrong is the founder and CEO of …   Read more

Business & Economics
| 07/16/2009 | Jeff DeChambeau

Where's my 'dislike' facebook button already?

This morning I opened up facebook, skimmed my feed, and saw that a friend from high school had posted a video that made an argument that was (in my estimate) intellectually dishonest — and a …   Read more

Business & Economics
| 07/06/2009 | Jeff DeChambeau

A Brief History of OSes

Last month I read Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash. It’s one of those books that throws your ideas about the nature of the world up in the air, leaving them differently-arranged  when they land. If you’re at …   Read more

Business & Economics
| 07/02/2009 | Naumi Haque

Measuring collaboration: Lessons from Shane Battier and the NBA

One of the critical challenges with enterprise collaboration (a Steve noted earlier) is determining how to measure and reward it. For inspiration on how to solve this problem, I look to non-corporate collaborative context – …   Read more

Business & Economics
| 06/15/2009 | Naumi Haque

Diminishing returns of collaboration

While generally a believer in how collaboration can lead to better insights and greater efficiency, I continually see examples of where it is neither effective, nor terribly efficient – and in the worst cases totally …   Read more

Business & Economics
| 06/12/2009 | Jeff DeChambeau

Everyday Relics

With the singularity ever-present around the next corner (or two) it’s easy to fixate on the futuristic present — and near-future — and forget about how we got to where we are. For most of …   Read more