I just finished reading an excellent New Yorker article by Malcolm Gladwell entitled “Tweakers“. The gist is this: not unlike the concept of the Last Mile, the truth of much of the innovation that has changed the world is that its societal significance has come as much from the innovators who refined the original idea…
Image via Wikipedia When I began working at Holland-Mark, my dear friend-turned-colleague Chris Colbert gifted me with a subscription to The New Yorker. An odd sort of gift, but if you know myself and Christopher, you can understand how the gift is appropriate. The combination of opinions, articles, art reviews, and fiction provides ample fodder…
For my birthday this year a dear friend bought me a Kindle. Upon receiving it, I was reminded of my attitude towards that little Amazon device only a year earlier: it was stupid. Why would I need a digital book? I have lots of books – real books – and I can read those just…