August 2014

you’re the product

This is a graph that Jawbone released from yesterday earthquake in Napa, Northern California.  Pretty cool, when you have access to data of thousands of users and you can…

throwback thursday – the pager

20 years ago I had this pager. My mom used to “call” me on that. It had a good alarm and news service. Now we use twitter.

everyone thinks they’re special

When you work for the public sector, there’s this need to create your own walled garden and make yourself the guardian keeper of something. It might be some…

knowing your fears

There’s a lot of talk today around startups and how nice it is to build something for people to use or consume. Some do it for themselves (which…

data is like water

– Clean data is like clean water. It’s expensive, scarce and we should save it for hard times. – If data is like water, then it doesn’t matter…