BOOK: Groundswell

Groundswell is the best book on social media I’ve ever read, and it may be the best book ever written on the subject. Here’s why: 1. It’s current. Books on social media by nature almost can’t be current. Everything is blogged or twittered one day, forgotten the next. Yet this book has some staying power, [...]

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BOOK: Super Crunchers

Will data-driven decision making diminish the significance of expert roles? Recently, I was given a book from the folks at Offermatica called Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-by-Numbers is the New Way to be Smart. It got the recommendation from Steve Levitt the author of Freakonomics Ayres does convincing job of making you feel like this should [...]

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BOOKS: The World Is Flat

Paradigm Shift: From Command & Control to Connect & Collaborate In “The World Is Flat“, Thomas Friedman tells us that globalization has three phases: the first from 1492 to around 1800, in which countries and governments opened up trade with the New World and which was driven by military expansion and the amount of horse-power [...]

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BOOKS: Disentangling technology, legal and economic threads

Booking reading update: In my continuing effort to better understand all sides to the technology sector, I am currently reading this book that covers the Internet bubble and the dynamics that are setting the stage for current and future internet and software business models. This book has a strong “law and economy forces” perspective and [...]

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