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Kathy
Sierra over on Twitter has been throwing two types of teasers at us
this week. The first are what she calls 'rules that aren't always
useful',
that I'd call 'false
myths and limiting generalizations', such as:
don't feed trollstwo heads are better than onenobody reads the manualthere is no money in [x]the customer is always rightgrow or dieyou can't be both profitable and socially
responsible
In case you think 'false myth' is a redundant expression, a myth
(literal meaning= word of mouth) is anything that has received such a
wide degree of acceptance, or such passionate acceptance, that it is rarely
questioned. Some myths are true.
The problem with the false myths are that they can blind you to the
truth if you accept them uncritically. They can constrain your
imagination of other possibilities that are contrary to the false myth
'conventional wisdom'. They can lead you to make very bad decisions.
The problem with limiting generalizations is that they can lead you to
ov How to Save the World Thursday, July 17, 2008 Warranty Repair and Online Retail Don't Mix My partner Ryan McIntyre has an excruciating story up titled Sharp's Dull Service / My eCommerce Nightmare about his experience buying a snazzy new 52" Sharp Aquos LC-52D92U via Amazon only to have to go through over four months of warranty repair hell before his (now old) new TV worked. He's being politically correct with his title - I would have titled the post "How To Get Rat Fucked When Buying A High Ticket Consumer Electronics Item From An Amazon Affiliate." But then again, Ryan is nicer than me. And he's apparently more patient than me - I simply give my broken things to Ross and order a new improved thing. Feld.com Thursday, July 17, 2008 Here is a really good blog post by the folks at Altos Ventures on "Ousting the Founder." This should be read by every CEO. They are shocked to hear the news of VMWare's CEO getting replaced and they point to... Southeast VC Thursday, July 17, 2008 You have to admire the Spanish. Not content to rest on that whole “we discovered the new world” thing, they have now achieved another first in the annals of apekind.
A Spanish parliamentary committee adopted resolutions last month that would give great apes, such as chimpanzees and gorillas, the right to life, freedom from [...] VentureChroniclesByJeffNolan Thursday, July 17, 2008 Attention. Meditation. Two default human settings. You pay attention when you’re driving. You’re in a state of meditation when you watch the ocean, or perhaps a good movie. You may even meditate on purpose, sitting a pillow with closed eyes.
Silicon Valley innovator NeuroSky has given new meaning to these two states of mind. Attention means [...] Businesspundit.com Thursday, July 17, 2008 Volkswagen To Open Manufacturing Plant in Tennessee The robotic parking garage at the VW plant in Wolfsburg, Germany
From Ridelust:
Volkswagen is opening a plant in Chattanooga Tennessee in early 2011. This will be VW's first vehicle production unit in the US. The Supervisory Board of Volkswagen AG, Germany have agreed to the establishment and approved an investment of up to 620 million Euros [...] Businesspundit.com Thursday, July 17, 2008 Texas Electricity Deregulation Leads to Highest Prices in the Nation From today’s Wall Street Journal:
Texas had some of the cheapest power rates in the country when it zapped most of the state’s electric regulations six years ago, convinced that rollicking competition would drive prices even lower.
This summer, electricity there is some of the nation’s priciest.
Power costs are rising in the rest of the U.S., but [...] Businesspundit.com Thursday, July 17, 2008 Blogging and Other Social Fixtures In his blog post, It's the End of Blogging as We Know It, Norman Birnbach discusses Jason Calacanis' announcement that he would quit blogging and stick with sending messages to a mailing list of friends and followers. Norman goes on to say that he agrees with TechCrunch that this move won't matter, because someone will just post the emails from Calacanis in a blog.
read more Fastcompany Thursday, July 17, 2008 Trading Stocks is Fun, Until Someone Loses an Eye Pakistan is busily putting down riots at its stock exchange. After leading the world over the past decade, soaring by almost a factor of 10, it has dropped 35% since April, and traded down 15 of the last 18 days. As usual, people got a sense that markets would always go up, and when they found out otherwise they reacted like kids who had their Wall-E toy taken away. They smashed stuff, shouted, and generally demanded the government do something about it. Aiding and abetting things, of course, have been Pakistani regulators, with a rule (until recently) that equities could never go down more than 1% a day. (Sound familiar?) Check this (Reuters) picture of investors smashing through a door at the Karachi exchange, and then the following color from Bloomberg: In Karachi investors today broke windows, threw plant holders in the parking lot of the building, burned shareholder statements and at least one protester was injured, prompting intervention by police and the paramilitary. InfectiousGreed Thursday, July 17, 2008 The Who, Inflation, Blogging, and Global Warming It's time for another quick list of interesting things I found this morning on the web along with my occasionally witty commentary. Harmonix Party: Rock Band owns LA with Who concert. I love everything about Harmonix and Rock Band. Er, um, The Who just played at a Harmonix / MTV party at the Orpheum Theater in LA. The Who. The Who! One of my best friends - Warren Katz - who was also an angel investor in Harmonix had the following to say about the party: "My jaw is on the floor and I am speechless. Not because I semi-randomly got hooked up with a game that's turning out to be one of the greatest hits of all time. Not because that game is actually fundamentally changing how a great hunk of the world interacts with music. Not because this game hosted a party featuring my favorite rock band of all time, The Who (and I would have hurt myself to get on a plane for this party). I am stunned mute because, in my opinion, one of the three best songs in Ro Feld.com Thursday, July 17, 2008 1 2
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