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Winer on Facebook’s Strategy
Brilliant take. The Icarus/Jenga strategy. We’re about to enter a phase when one vendor tries to break out from the rest, the way DEC did in the age of mini-computers, the way IBM did with the PC, the way Microsoft … Continue reading
Baby GS Analysts Start Their Spin
Part of the larger offensive on the part of Goldman Sachs (We aren’t evil! We swear!). Here’s Ezra Klein whoring himself out to an unnamed Harvard grad (composite character?) who worked at Goldman. He asks some hard hitting questions like: … Continue reading
The Yon Thing
I don’t really get all the damnation. He’s being ostracized by the milblogger community for critiquing McChrystal. But, he’s just doing what he’s been doing – continuing to provide his own perspective – and he’s done that quite well for … Continue reading
On the Air Traffic System and the Flight Ban
So. Complex aircraft are designed to operate within a certain design envelope. Such as flying through air. Not glass, sand, and rock particles. What do you do when, suddenly, the normally stable environment literally explodes, spewing streams of exactly that … Continue reading
Analysis of Volcano-Induced Systems Disruption
Brilliant analysis here with lots of smart visualizations. -Shlok Sign up for my newsletter.