Business-related Parries
October 2011
The Mouse and the Cantilever
Steve Jobs we lost at the age of 56; when Frank Lloyd Wright reached that age it was still only 1923, the time of merely his second comeback with Tokyo’s Imperial Hotel.
Business-related Photos
No Latmag on Business
And on the Trail
Fri 18 May ’12
Re Facebook, “Mark Zuckerberg is to uselessness what Henry Ford was to the automobile.”
Fri 23 Mar ’12
Sober and crisp analysis of Britain’s 2012 budget from an income tax perspective.
Sun 4 Mar ’12
Taking his time, Morozov asks the right questions about Steve Jobs, comparing him first to the Bauhaus movement, then to Henry Ford. Many quotable quotes, and good comments, especially the long one from JakeH at 02/27/2012 – 7:46pm EDT.
Sat 4 Feb ’12
Toca Boca: ingenious iOS games for kids and not such.
Sat 28 Jan ’12
Marxist academic Slavoj Žižek on what are not proletarian protests but protests against the threat of being reduced to proletarians.
Mon 16 Jan ’12
It’s not the economy, stupid. Much like the executive, legislative and judicial branches of government, Daniel Bell, co-founder with Irving Kristol of The Public Interest, believed that the economic, the political and the social are separate realms and must be kept in healthy balance.
Fri 13 Jan ’12
On parking in LA Mag — the history, the psychology, the economics.
Thu 12 Jan ’12
Nice post by the always sensible Boyink re taking on a failed project.
Wed 21 Dec ’11
A statement from Louis C.K. on the direct sale of his Beacon Theatre special.
Mon 19 Dec ’11
In this Haaretz article on Israelis’ dependence on cars due to lack of adequate public transport, the word “bus” appears 8 times, “train” only once, “bicycle” not at all.
Tue 22 Nov ’11
The Wall Street Journal’s Top 25 Economics blogs.
Tue 8 Nov ’11
China and Walmart: the symbiosis, the similarities.
Sun 9 Oct ’11
Sober breakdown of the viability of the streaming music business model.
Best of the Steve Jobs eulogies: John Siracusa, David Pogue. And one about his house. A favorable comparison with Thomas Edison.
Thu 6 Oct ’11
Mon 26 Sep ’11
Conrad Black, facing more jail time, remains irrepressible.
Fri 26 Aug ’11
After Steve Jobs’ resignation, the Daringfireball round-up of anecdotes: Dave Winer, David Cairns, Vic Gundotra, Allen Paltrow, Jonathan Berger, Marc Hedlund.
Thu 11 Aug ’11
The reprap, a self-replicating 3d-printer. Most mind-boggling thing ever.
Mon 8 Aug ’11
Thu 4 Aug ’11
Working remotely works.
An investment manager’s view of the top 1%.
Mon 18 Jul ’11
Mon 16 May ’11
One persuasive theory: Microsoft is only buying Skype to stop Google from doing so.
Thu 21 Apr ’11
Fri 15 Apr ’11
Behold, “The Book of Highdef” as told by Eric D. Snider.
Some inside baseball on what happens when AOL buys your client.
Thu 14 Apr ’11
Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert, waxes serious on what education should really be for most of us.
Sat 19 Mar ’11
Wired‘s profile of Larry Page, now Google’s CEO.
Fri 15 Oct ’10
Scully on Jobs.
Bashing the makers of ExpressionEngine: Kenny Meyers’ Plea To EllisLab and Veerle Pieters breaking ranks.
Sat 24 Jul ’10
Another excellent piece by Andy Rutledge, an admonition/checklist for being a professional designer/developer.
Sat 24 Apr ’10
Good reminder for how to estimate projects.
Thu 22 Apr ’10
Tue 13 Apr ’10
Andy Rutledge on Lies, Deception, and Subcontracting.
Thu 18 Feb ’10
More and more of OpinionJournal goes behind the paywall. Personally I think it’s the right move, because what’s there to lose? If we won’t pay, the business was over anyway. And my bet is we will.
Thu 11 Feb ’10
Tue 9 Feb ’10
Mon 8 Feb ’10
Zeldman say be early.
Tue 26 Jan ’10
A Little Less Conversation, says Joel Spolsy.
Fake Steve Jobs pens the most insightful piece I’ve read on Google’s complaints vis-a-vis China.
Thu 7 Jan ’10
Three cheers for the Vintage Ad Browser.
Tue 5 Jan ’10
Om Malik’s list of 10 articles on the art of the startup.
Thu 17 Dec ’09
While it works, PayPal is nice and cheap, but if it doesn’t work, you are royally screwed.
Sat 12 Dec ’09
Tour-de-force rant to AT&T by Fake Steve. Fake Steve Jobs 2012!
Fri 4 Dec ’09
Andy Rutledge wisely instructs us that when calculating the hours required to do a job, the nature of the client is a real factor.
Tue 3 Nov ’09
It’s about helping your users become awesome though she does use the word “awesome” awesomely often.
Fri 11 Sep ’09
I resist responding to RFPs (request for proposals) and have always presumed it’s due to vices like laziness. But Andy Rutledge has forged an essay out of this inchoate dislike and explained why RFPS are unsuitable for hiring web agencies.