The Law Of Accelerating Returns
A look at the long term, exponential growth of technology and it’s implications on the future of society.
Cold Storage
This is Steve Spalding's ( How To Split An Atom editor) cold storage.
A collection of interesting links, video and pictures that didn't fit into any of the other Internet buckets.
I rediscovered IT Conversations lately. It’s a pretty good podcast with interviews and snippets of conferences and so on. It can be a little hit or miss, but it’s worth a listen.
I really don’t update this Tumblr enough.
So teamwork, it’s pretty obvious that working together is more valuable than working apart in a business environment but it’s not quite as intuitive why.
Everyone you know is more clever than you at something.
It’s a part of being human. We tend to build up certain skills and trade off others that we don’t think are important. Everyone does it. The result is that by mid-career you are filled with existential “holes” in your ability sets. There are two ways to fill those gaps, burn an obscene amount of time picking up one-off skills or find someone else that is better than you at it and let them do it.
Effective leaders know when to delegate tasks to people who would do them better. When you’re busy fighting with someone it’s hard to separate their strengths from all those nagging flaws you keep going on and on about. You become myopic. Myopia leads to a lot of bruised knees that brings down the productivity of everyone around you.
How much time do you spend thinking about that co-working that annoys you? Couldn’t you be doing something else with that time.
How often has office politics lead to the wrong people being assigned to the wrong tasks when a clear head could have easily fixed the problem?
Getting over yourself and learning to work together despite differences will help you earn back all this lost time, and help undo all of these useless mistakes.
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My Guide Of Guides
If you’re seeing this, you’re coming from Episode One of my new HTSAA project. Here is some reading material to get you started. Feel free to stop back here for whatever other bits of meta-information I decide to put into the ether.
Internet Bootcamp - I am really happy with how this turned out. It’s extremely heavy on search-related tips but if you are new to the web, that’s what you really need to know.
What Is Web 2.0? - Defining Web 2.0, hm … I give myself a 7.0 for the dismount.
HTSAA’s Guide To Blogging - Written when I had more time than wisdom, but it was well researched and I managed to hit some solid points.
The Five Roles Of Bloggers - A surprisingly clever look at all the roles that bloggers play.
Are You Ready To Start A Business? - Read it and tell me.
Startup Resources - Probably the most useful post I’ve ever put together.
Entrepreneurs Checklist - Followed by its almost as useful but snarky cousin.
Isn’t Everyone A Consultant These Days? - As true a year ago as it is today.
Ideas Are A Dime A Dozen - As it turns out, I’ve written three of these but this is my favorite.
My Next Ten Posts
I am really looking forward to my next ten blog posts on HTSAA. It’s the type of stuff I wish I had been clever enough to write two years ago. I hope you folks like them.
Also, I want to thank all my columnists who have worked really hard to give me the space to work on all the less fun stuff.
I’m not sure how this is relevant, but I have 30 days to come up with 93 good ideas. So it begins, like all great human endeavors, with the cast of Farscape.
“Nomophobia is the fear of being out of mobile phone contact. The term was coined during a study by the UK Post Office who commissioned YouGov, a UK-based research organisation to look at anxieties suffered by mobile phone users. The study found that nearly 53 percent of mobile phone users in Britain tend to be anxious when they “lose their mobile phone, run out of battery or credit, or have no network coverage”
— Wikiality - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomophobia
“Less than two months after his celebrating his 18th birthday, a blind, East Boston-based phone hacker has been arrested for paying a Sunday afternoon visit to the Verizon security officer who’d been chasing him.”
