Dig in, or skim along?

Snippets from Seth - on the willingness to go the distance, to read the whole story and understand the issues:

No need to read the whole book, I can just glance over the Cliffs Notes... I get it. No, I already heard about your vacation... remember, I saw the Instagram feed.

[via Pocket, "I get it"]

Are we going more shallow by having the fire-hose available and on at all times?

Does 200 or 500 friends mean you don't need to really pay attention to any single one?
When the book title is a story in itself, do we need to have it hammered in repeatedly over hundreds of pages?
With over 200 dimensions and metrics - does it make any sense to look at more than pageviews?

Simplification due to sheer volume and complexity - since we can't do it all, it is easier to cut corners?

It that why the allure of "BIG DATA" is so strong? Sure, there is to much to make sense of, so we'll just slap an algorithm on top, do some correlation and there you are!

No worries, no happy?

"The no-problem problem":

An organization that's run on emergencies and reaction to incoming doesn't know what to do when there are no problems.

[Seth]


So true, isn't it?

If the culture is all about putting out fires, then the fire marshal is the man in charge, with the shiny buttons and all the attention.

If the world is about to end, then you worry a lot. But if it is only your current business model that has an expiration date, how do you shift gears into innovation, expansion and delighting the customers you do have for as long as you have them?

Can you do both? Or all three?

Man the pumps, keep the band playing - and still sell tickets to space?

Oh yes, that mixes Titanic with Virgin Galactic via the Megastores as a mental link for issues. It is wonderful to talk about the ability to disrupt yourself, or cannibalize yourself before someone else does it faster. But you still have to juggle the existing business, develop it a bit every day, and deliver on the promises every second.

Show me the likes!

A great Dilbert strip - the some expert.

Various and vague? How can that possibly go wrong? And just to clarify, it is not a dig at any specific people, more the attitude of "hire someone to do something so that you can say that you are doing something". Be it web, wap, web 2.0, mobile, social, big data and so on.

Somehow it seems that there are three cultures in terms of "buzz" handling;

1. explain it to me - why do we need a website, we go mobile first - handholding more than anything
2. oooh shiny - or everybody else is doing it (or saying they are), we should to - no goals, no metrics or KPIs, just taking action is seen as enough
3. just do it - we don't need to shout about it, but we do it, step by step, learning, iterating and moving on

Where does your business fall, and does it depend on the wave or stay constant time and time again?

Dilbert, 09.30.2012 - (c) Scott Adams

[src] via Dilbert Daily Strip - originally September 30th, 2012

Draft idea - instant charged toys

Cleaning out the closet - or at least parts of the draft backlog. Some of theese have been published for a short time, since the auto feed didn't work at all like I intended it too... which is another reason for most of my focus going forward is likely to be Wordpress.  Still on the fence regarding a total transfer. 39 drafts to schedule, finish and rework first.

Elko - USB charger built in

Saw this USB port built in to wall socket from Thinkgeek...- but is was not 220v though. Nice touch having both USB and regular power?

But since then it has become "mainstream", so you can get it from a regular supplier like Elko - even in a selecion of colors. Slots right into a standard box, hooks up to the power and gives you instant chargeslots. Could be useful, but with iPad begging for a bit more juice it might not cut it at a simple 5V level.