Freelancers and Apple

OK, so I’ve just spent my first week at New Work City, a co-working space in Tribeca. One word. Awe­some! It’s great to have a good work envi­ron­ment and be sur­rounded by so many Macs. Seri­ously, I have only met a few peo­ple so far. The lion’s share use Macs. (Did you catch that pun? I’m […]

I Want Your Blood

At the risk of being oppor­tunis­tic, I’d like to take a minute to remind every­one about the Red Cross’ des­per­ate need for blood dur­ing emer­gen­cies like hur­ri­cane Irene. Remem­ber, blood only lasts a short time once col­lected and there’s no syn­thetic sub­sti­tute. So, with­out your reg­u­lar dona­tions, as a com­mu­nity we would be in a […]

The First Step in Retail Banking Innovation…

Is defin­ing your mar­ket. I love Apple. Clearly they define their mar­ket very dif­fer­ently than Black­berry. This def­i­n­i­tion dri­ves their strat­egy. In fact, it dri­ves both com­pa­nies strate­gies. And, like Rush used to sing — Not mak­ing a deci­sion is still a deci­sion. (or some­thing like that) Let me ask a ques­tion, and keep this as […]

HP’s Mystifying TouchPad Experience

They’re like high-school stu­dents hav­ing sex. It’s over before they even know what’s hap­pen­ing. Seri­ously though, HP’s killing the Touch­Pad demon­strates an inabil­ity to think and act strate­gi­cally over a long period of time. In fact, I think it is even deeper than a choice to demand short term results because investors/markets demand them. It […]

What Happens When…

…There are things we can do on our macs, that we can no longer do on our PCs? It used to be that the things we do to get our jobs done, could be pretty much equally done on PC or Mac (other than design­ers). Might be eas­ier on a Mac, or cheaper on a PC. […]