Make anything into a touch surface with Touche’. Pretty innovative way to figure out how to do things, but one question kept coming up for me - what if somebody just has really big hands? Doesn’t that touch surface convey the same amount of current at each frequency? In any case, hats off to the Disney folks for this great innovation.
Sriram's Tumblr: Don't be so f*king strategic
One of the occupational hazards of working at Microsoft was attending offsites. These were 2-3 day affairs, typically cloistered watching endless sessions of Powerpoint in a out-of-the-way Washington resort with a bunch of execs. At one such shindig I was attending a few years ago, one of the…
(Source: sriramk)
Like TED, but harder hitting. The Economist Ideas Economy event seems to have some harder hitting debates and discussions around key issues that will help startups and innovation in the United States. Of interest is Vivek Wadwha’s discussion with Federal CTO Aneesh Chopra on the Startup Visa as well as Innovation Clusters. I leave you this video for starters.
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"The Yahoo model is to think of their sites as media properties with audiences…Even if top executives wanted to see revolutionary change at Yahoo, most of the organization was set up to do deals with Purina Puppy Chow and to ask if Flickr wanted to create a special site for dog photos."
~ Neil Kandalgaonkar, a former engineer at Upcoming (acquired by Yahoo). (via 37signals)
"Ultimately, the best test of any product is to go to your target market and pretend like it’s a real business. You’ll find out soon enough if it is or not. You have to take some risks. You can sit and analyze these different markets forever and ever and ever, and you’d get all these wonderful answers, and they still may be wrong."
~ An unnamed entrepreneur in Inc Magazine’s “How Great Entrepreneurs Think” article this month (via 37Signals and Inc Magazine)
Charlie Rose interviews Warren Buffett - The Three Is
At one point, Rose asked the question that scholars, pundits, and plaintiffs attorneys will be debating for years: “Should wise people have known better?” Of course they should have, Buffet replied, but there’s a “natural progression” to how good new ideas go badly wrong. He called this progression the “three Is.” First come the innovators, who see opportunities that others don’t and champion new ideas that create genuine value. Then come the imitators, who copy what the innovators have done. Sometimes they improve on the original idea, often they tarnish it. Last come the idiots, whose avarice undermines the very innovations they are trying to exploit.
(via 37 Signals via HBR)
US Visas and Indian IT
One of the best things we can do as a country is keep the high skilled workers we educate here instead of sending them back to their home countries. Right now there is a very small quota of visas that force the best and brightest to leave before they have a chance to start a company or invent. A crazy percentage of graduates from US schools with post-graduate degrees are foreigners (promise, I’ll look it up) and we’re losing their ideas.
Job growth, innovation, entrepreneurship, all are dependent on creative minds doing their best. Let’s keep those minds in the US and push President Obama to raise the visa quotas for highly skilled workers to keep us in the lead for innovative technologies.
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