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<\/a>by the very amusing Mr Wowser<\/p><\/div>\n
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Letter To A Young Programmer Considering A Startup<\/a><\/h3>\nI recently interviewed a young man. I asked him where he wants to be in four years. \u201cRunning my own company,\u201d he said without hesitation. I asked why. \u201cBecause entrepreneurship is in my blood,\u201d he replied. There was no mention of what his hypothetical company would do, what problem it would solve for people. His goal was business for the sake of business. That\u2019s what he had gone to school for, after all.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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After the Like and After the Spike<\/a><\/h3>\nIn fact, the last 50-60 years have been a blip \u2013 a time in which the relationship between storytellers and audiences was effectively broken. We\u2019re coming to the end of that blip now, and we\u2019re seeing a transition as interesting and profound as the beginning of the 20th century, when storytelling moved from the live performance circuits of music hall and variety to the new mass mediums of cinema and broadcasting.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
<\/p>\n
A question of clarity and certainty<\/a><\/h3>\nThe company agreed that a small group of senior directors, with an independent fashion adviser, would hear complaints from employees who felt their ties had been unreasonably rejected. Some of these directors were heard to mutter that this was not what they were paid large salaries for. But since no-one knew what they were paid large salaries for, the criticism did not go much further.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
<\/p>\n
Buffer\u2019s extreme transparency: inspiring or dystopian?<\/a><\/h3>\nWhat would happen if everybody in your company knew everything about your business \u2013 your revenue, everyone\u2019s salaries, how the company pitches itself to investors, even how much you slept last night?\u00a0This might sound like the premise of a sci-fi novel, but it\u2019s what\u2019s happening right now at social media tools startup\u00a0Buffer, a company with a small, distributed team that takes transparency to extremes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
<\/p>\n
A sobering day<\/a><\/h3>\nAbout 10 days ago, the hacker or hackers calling themselves the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) carried out a very targeted cyberattack against the FT. We\u2019re not the first to be targeted and in fact as I write this we\u2019re not even the most recent. But the experience taught me an important lesson. Targeted attacks against a single large corporation are not like the random, almost embarrassingly fake emails you get telling you to reset your PayPal account. They\u2019re painfully, soberingly realistic. Those that were sent to the FT compromised scores of our corporate Google accounts. And one of those was mine.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
<\/p>\n
Innovation: Good Reads On Courage, Diversity, Ecosystems And Principles<\/a><\/h3>\nInnovation leaders generally operate in a world of \u201cwhat if\u201d\u00a0 and must constantly project the consequences and outcomes of complex systems.\u00a0 And the systems, because they are made up of human beings, tend to be messy, unpredictable, and highly variable. Thomas More shows us the power of narrativizing ideas and principles and the power of \u201cthe story\u201d to make real that which is not real.\u00a0 More important, though, Utopia is a wonderful example of what it means to think about the ecosystem as a whole when thinking about innovation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
<\/p>\n
Innovation<\/a><\/h3>\nBut I immediately blurted out something like, \u201cInnovation is two things. First, you obviously have to spot something that people aren’t doing yet. But second, most importantly, you need to have the courage to do something different than what you’ve grown comfortable doing.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
<\/p>\n
I type, therefore I am<\/a><\/h3>\nOnscreen, today\u2019s torrents of pixels exceed anything Auden could have imagined. Yet the hyper-verbal loneliness he evoked feels peculiarly contemporary. Increasingly, we interweave our actions and our rolling digital accounts of ourselves: curators and narrators of our life stories, with a matching move from internal to external monologue. It\u2019s a realm of elaborate shows in which status is hugely significant \u2014 and one in which articulacy itself risks turning into a game, with attention and impact (retweets, likes) held up as the supreme virtues of self-expression.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
<\/p>\n
The Story Behind the WWW Hypertext 91 Demo Page and UNC and me<\/a><\/h3>\nNot long after, Jim got email from Tim saying that he was submitting a paper on what was now called more briefly WWW at the upcoming Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) conference Hypertext 91 in San Antonio in December. Tim made plans to stop by UNC and visit with us before going on to Texas. He was confident given the immediate acceptance of WWW on newsgroups and as seen in his logs that he would get a good speaking slot at the conference.\u00a0A few weeks later, we learned differently.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
<\/p>\n
I’m afraid I thought this one as dire as its title<\/a><\/h3>\nFrom: Comedy Script Editor, Light Entertainment, Television
\nRoom No. & Building: 4009 TC
\nTel. Ext.: 2900
\ndate: 29.5.1974.<\/p>\n
Subject: “FAWLTY TOWERS” BY JOHN CLEESE & CONNIE BOOTH<\/p>\n
To: H.C.L.E.<\/p>\n
I’m afraid I thought this one as dire as its title.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\nIt’s a kind of “Prince of Denmark” of the hotel world. A collection of cliches and stock characters which I can’t see being anything but a disaster.<\/em><\/em><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n <\/p>\n
Gangsters, Drugs and Bassline – Sheffield’s war on Music<\/a><\/h3>\nNiche\u2019s notorious owner Steve Baxendale talks frankly about the rise and fall of Niche. Of how the Sheffield underground rave scene flourished around 1992, the time he set up Niche as an all-night House club. Bought, as one of Sheffield\u2019s many abandoned cutler warehouse, quite different from the luxury brand it became.\u00a0\u201cEveryone was sick of the commercial clubs and the military regime that they incorporated. They wanted throbbing underground music and to chill out in peace.\u201d<\/p>\n
I recently interviewed a young man. I asked him where he wants to be in four years. \u201cRunning my own company,\u201d he said without hesitation. I asked why. \u201cBecause entrepreneurship is in my blood,\u201d he replied. There was no mention of what his hypothetical company would do, what problem it would solve for people. His goal was business for the sake of business. That\u2019s what he had gone to school for, after all.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
<\/p>\n
After the Like and After the Spike<\/a><\/h3>\nIn fact, the last 50-60 years have been a blip \u2013 a time in which the relationship between storytellers and audiences was effectively broken. We\u2019re coming to the end of that blip now, and we\u2019re seeing a transition as interesting and profound as the beginning of the 20th century, when storytelling moved from the live performance circuits of music hall and variety to the new mass mediums of cinema and broadcasting.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
<\/p>\n
A question of clarity and certainty<\/a><\/h3>\nThe company agreed that a small group of senior directors, with an independent fashion adviser, would hear complaints from employees who felt their ties had been unreasonably rejected. Some of these directors were heard to mutter that this was not what they were paid large salaries for. But since no-one knew what they were paid large salaries for, the criticism did not go much further.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
<\/p>\n
Buffer\u2019s extreme transparency: inspiring or dystopian?<\/a><\/h3>\nWhat would happen if everybody in your company knew everything about your business \u2013 your revenue, everyone\u2019s salaries, how the company pitches itself to investors, even how much you slept last night?\u00a0This might sound like the premise of a sci-fi novel, but it\u2019s what\u2019s happening right now at social media tools startup\u00a0Buffer, a company with a small, distributed team that takes transparency to extremes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
<\/p>\n
A sobering day<\/a><\/h3>\nAbout 10 days ago, the hacker or hackers calling themselves the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) carried out a very targeted cyberattack against the FT. We\u2019re not the first to be targeted and in fact as I write this we\u2019re not even the most recent. But the experience taught me an important lesson. Targeted attacks against a single large corporation are not like the random, almost embarrassingly fake emails you get telling you to reset your PayPal account. They\u2019re painfully, soberingly realistic. Those that were sent to the FT compromised scores of our corporate Google accounts. And one of those was mine.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
<\/p>\n
Innovation: Good Reads On Courage, Diversity, Ecosystems And Principles<\/a><\/h3>\nInnovation leaders generally operate in a world of \u201cwhat if\u201d\u00a0 and must constantly project the consequences and outcomes of complex systems.\u00a0 And the systems, because they are made up of human beings, tend to be messy, unpredictable, and highly variable. Thomas More shows us the power of narrativizing ideas and principles and the power of \u201cthe story\u201d to make real that which is not real.\u00a0 More important, though, Utopia is a wonderful example of what it means to think about the ecosystem as a whole when thinking about innovation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
<\/p>\n
Innovation<\/a><\/h3>\nBut I immediately blurted out something like, \u201cInnovation is two things. First, you obviously have to spot something that people aren’t doing yet. But second, most importantly, you need to have the courage to do something different than what you’ve grown comfortable doing.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
<\/p>\n
I type, therefore I am<\/a><\/h3>\nOnscreen, today\u2019s torrents of pixels exceed anything Auden could have imagined. Yet the hyper-verbal loneliness he evoked feels peculiarly contemporary. Increasingly, we interweave our actions and our rolling digital accounts of ourselves: curators and narrators of our life stories, with a matching move from internal to external monologue. It\u2019s a realm of elaborate shows in which status is hugely significant \u2014 and one in which articulacy itself risks turning into a game, with attention and impact (retweets, likes) held up as the supreme virtues of self-expression.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
<\/p>\n
The Story Behind the WWW Hypertext 91 Demo Page and UNC and me<\/a><\/h3>\nNot long after, Jim got email from Tim saying that he was submitting a paper on what was now called more briefly WWW at the upcoming Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) conference Hypertext 91 in San Antonio in December. Tim made plans to stop by UNC and visit with us before going on to Texas. He was confident given the immediate acceptance of WWW on newsgroups and as seen in his logs that he would get a good speaking slot at the conference.\u00a0A few weeks later, we learned differently.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
<\/p>\n
I’m afraid I thought this one as dire as its title<\/a><\/h3>\nFrom: Comedy Script Editor, Light Entertainment, Television
\nRoom No. & Building: 4009 TC
\nTel. Ext.: 2900
\ndate: 29.5.1974.<\/p>\n
Subject: “FAWLTY TOWERS” BY JOHN CLEESE & CONNIE BOOTH<\/p>\n
To: H.C.L.E.<\/p>\n
I’m afraid I thought this one as dire as its title.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\nIt’s a kind of “Prince of Denmark” of the hotel world. A collection of cliches and stock characters which I can’t see being anything but a disaster.<\/em><\/em><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n <\/p>\n
Gangsters, Drugs and Bassline – Sheffield’s war on Music<\/a><\/h3>\nNiche\u2019s notorious owner Steve Baxendale talks frankly about the rise and fall of Niche. Of how the Sheffield underground rave scene flourished around 1992, the time he set up Niche as an all-night House club. Bought, as one of Sheffield\u2019s many abandoned cutler warehouse, quite different from the luxury brand it became.\u00a0\u201cEveryone was sick of the commercial clubs and the military regime that they incorporated. They wanted throbbing underground music and to chill out in peace.\u201d<\/p>\n
In fact, the last 50-60 years have been a blip \u2013 a time in which the relationship between storytellers and audiences was effectively broken. We\u2019re coming to the end of that blip now, and we\u2019re seeing a transition as interesting and profound as the beginning of the 20th century, when storytelling moved from the live performance circuits of music hall and variety to the new mass mediums of cinema and broadcasting.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
<\/p>\n
A question of clarity and certainty<\/a><\/h3>\nThe company agreed that a small group of senior directors, with an independent fashion adviser, would hear complaints from employees who felt their ties had been unreasonably rejected. Some of these directors were heard to mutter that this was not what they were paid large salaries for. But since no-one knew what they were paid large salaries for, the criticism did not go much further.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
<\/p>\n
Buffer\u2019s extreme transparency: inspiring or dystopian?<\/a><\/h3>\nWhat would happen if everybody in your company knew everything about your business \u2013 your revenue, everyone\u2019s salaries, how the company pitches itself to investors, even how much you slept last night?\u00a0This might sound like the premise of a sci-fi novel, but it\u2019s what\u2019s happening right now at social media tools startup\u00a0Buffer, a company with a small, distributed team that takes transparency to extremes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
<\/p>\n
A sobering day<\/a><\/h3>\nAbout 10 days ago, the hacker or hackers calling themselves the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) carried out a very targeted cyberattack against the FT. We\u2019re not the first to be targeted and in fact as I write this we\u2019re not even the most recent. But the experience taught me an important lesson. Targeted attacks against a single large corporation are not like the random, almost embarrassingly fake emails you get telling you to reset your PayPal account. They\u2019re painfully, soberingly realistic. Those that were sent to the FT compromised scores of our corporate Google accounts. And one of those was mine.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
<\/p>\n
Innovation: Good Reads On Courage, Diversity, Ecosystems And Principles<\/a><\/h3>\nInnovation leaders generally operate in a world of \u201cwhat if\u201d\u00a0 and must constantly project the consequences and outcomes of complex systems.\u00a0 And the systems, because they are made up of human beings, tend to be messy, unpredictable, and highly variable. Thomas More shows us the power of narrativizing ideas and principles and the power of \u201cthe story\u201d to make real that which is not real.\u00a0 More important, though, Utopia is a wonderful example of what it means to think about the ecosystem as a whole when thinking about innovation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
<\/p>\n
Innovation<\/a><\/h3>\nBut I immediately blurted out something like, \u201cInnovation is two things. First, you obviously have to spot something that people aren’t doing yet. But second, most importantly, you need to have the courage to do something different than what you’ve grown comfortable doing.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
<\/p>\n
I type, therefore I am<\/a><\/h3>\nOnscreen, today\u2019s torrents of pixels exceed anything Auden could have imagined. Yet the hyper-verbal loneliness he evoked feels peculiarly contemporary. Increasingly, we interweave our actions and our rolling digital accounts of ourselves: curators and narrators of our life stories, with a matching move from internal to external monologue. It\u2019s a realm of elaborate shows in which status is hugely significant \u2014 and one in which articulacy itself risks turning into a game, with attention and impact (retweets, likes) held up as the supreme virtues of self-expression.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
<\/p>\n
The Story Behind the WWW Hypertext 91 Demo Page and UNC and me<\/a><\/h3>\nNot long after, Jim got email from Tim saying that he was submitting a paper on what was now called more briefly WWW at the upcoming Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) conference Hypertext 91 in San Antonio in December. Tim made plans to stop by UNC and visit with us before going on to Texas. He was confident given the immediate acceptance of WWW on newsgroups and as seen in his logs that he would get a good speaking slot at the conference.\u00a0A few weeks later, we learned differently.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
<\/p>\n
I’m afraid I thought this one as dire as its title<\/a><\/h3>\nFrom: Comedy Script Editor, Light Entertainment, Television
\nRoom No. & Building: 4009 TC
\nTel. Ext.: 2900
\ndate: 29.5.1974.<\/p>\n
Subject: “FAWLTY TOWERS” BY JOHN CLEESE & CONNIE BOOTH<\/p>\n
To: H.C.L.E.<\/p>\n
I’m afraid I thought this one as dire as its title.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\nIt’s a kind of “Prince of Denmark” of the hotel world. A collection of cliches and stock characters which I can’t see being anything but a disaster.<\/em><\/em><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n <\/p>\n
Gangsters, Drugs and Bassline – Sheffield’s war on Music<\/a><\/h3>\nNiche\u2019s notorious owner Steve Baxendale talks frankly about the rise and fall of Niche. Of how the Sheffield underground rave scene flourished around 1992, the time he set up Niche as an all-night House club. Bought, as one of Sheffield\u2019s many abandoned cutler warehouse, quite different from the luxury brand it became.\u00a0\u201cEveryone was sick of the commercial clubs and the military regime that they incorporated. They wanted throbbing underground music and to chill out in peace.\u201d<\/p>\n
The company agreed that a small group of senior directors, with an independent fashion adviser, would hear complaints from employees who felt their ties had been unreasonably rejected. Some of these directors were heard to mutter that this was not what they were paid large salaries for. But since no-one knew what they were paid large salaries for, the criticism did not go much further.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
<\/p>\n
Buffer\u2019s extreme transparency: inspiring or dystopian?<\/a><\/h3>\nWhat would happen if everybody in your company knew everything about your business \u2013 your revenue, everyone\u2019s salaries, how the company pitches itself to investors, even how much you slept last night?\u00a0This might sound like the premise of a sci-fi novel, but it\u2019s what\u2019s happening right now at social media tools startup\u00a0Buffer, a company with a small, distributed team that takes transparency to extremes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
<\/p>\n
A sobering day<\/a><\/h3>\nAbout 10 days ago, the hacker or hackers calling themselves the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) carried out a very targeted cyberattack against the FT. We\u2019re not the first to be targeted and in fact as I write this we\u2019re not even the most recent. But the experience taught me an important lesson. Targeted attacks against a single large corporation are not like the random, almost embarrassingly fake emails you get telling you to reset your PayPal account. They\u2019re painfully, soberingly realistic. Those that were sent to the FT compromised scores of our corporate Google accounts. And one of those was mine.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
<\/p>\n
Innovation: Good Reads On Courage, Diversity, Ecosystems And Principles<\/a><\/h3>\nInnovation leaders generally operate in a world of \u201cwhat if\u201d\u00a0 and must constantly project the consequences and outcomes of complex systems.\u00a0 And the systems, because they are made up of human beings, tend to be messy, unpredictable, and highly variable. Thomas More shows us the power of narrativizing ideas and principles and the power of \u201cthe story\u201d to make real that which is not real.\u00a0 More important, though, Utopia is a wonderful example of what it means to think about the ecosystem as a whole when thinking about innovation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
<\/p>\n
Innovation<\/a><\/h3>\nBut I immediately blurted out something like, \u201cInnovation is two things. First, you obviously have to spot something that people aren’t doing yet. But second, most importantly, you need to have the courage to do something different than what you’ve grown comfortable doing.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
<\/p>\n
I type, therefore I am<\/a><\/h3>\nOnscreen, today\u2019s torrents of pixels exceed anything Auden could have imagined. Yet the hyper-verbal loneliness he evoked feels peculiarly contemporary. Increasingly, we interweave our actions and our rolling digital accounts of ourselves: curators and narrators of our life stories, with a matching move from internal to external monologue. It\u2019s a realm of elaborate shows in which status is hugely significant \u2014 and one in which articulacy itself risks turning into a game, with attention and impact (retweets, likes) held up as the supreme virtues of self-expression.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
<\/p>\n
The Story Behind the WWW Hypertext 91 Demo Page and UNC and me<\/a><\/h3>\nNot long after, Jim got email from Tim saying that he was submitting a paper on what was now called more briefly WWW at the upcoming Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) conference Hypertext 91 in San Antonio in December. Tim made plans to stop by UNC and visit with us before going on to Texas. He was confident given the immediate acceptance of WWW on newsgroups and as seen in his logs that he would get a good speaking slot at the conference.\u00a0A few weeks later, we learned differently.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
<\/p>\n
I’m afraid I thought this one as dire as its title<\/a><\/h3>\nFrom: Comedy Script Editor, Light Entertainment, Television
\nRoom No. & Building: 4009 TC
\nTel. Ext.: 2900
\ndate: 29.5.1974.<\/p>\n
Subject: “FAWLTY TOWERS” BY JOHN CLEESE & CONNIE BOOTH<\/p>\n
To: H.C.L.E.<\/p>\n
I’m afraid I thought this one as dire as its title.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\nIt’s a kind of “Prince of Denmark” of the hotel world. A collection of cliches and stock characters which I can’t see being anything but a disaster.<\/em><\/em><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n <\/p>\n
Gangsters, Drugs and Bassline – Sheffield’s war on Music<\/a><\/h3>\nNiche\u2019s notorious owner Steve Baxendale talks frankly about the rise and fall of Niche. Of how the Sheffield underground rave scene flourished around 1992, the time he set up Niche as an all-night House club. Bought, as one of Sheffield\u2019s many abandoned cutler warehouse, quite different from the luxury brand it became.\u00a0\u201cEveryone was sick of the commercial clubs and the military regime that they incorporated. They wanted throbbing underground music and to chill out in peace.\u201d<\/p>\n
What would happen if everybody in your company knew everything about your business \u2013 your revenue, everyone\u2019s salaries, how the company pitches itself to investors, even how much you slept last night?\u00a0This might sound like the premise of a sci-fi novel, but it\u2019s what\u2019s happening right now at social media tools startup\u00a0Buffer, a company with a small, distributed team that takes transparency to extremes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
<\/p>\n
A sobering day<\/a><\/h3>\nAbout 10 days ago, the hacker or hackers calling themselves the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) carried out a very targeted cyberattack against the FT. We\u2019re not the first to be targeted and in fact as I write this we\u2019re not even the most recent. But the experience taught me an important lesson. Targeted attacks against a single large corporation are not like the random, almost embarrassingly fake emails you get telling you to reset your PayPal account. They\u2019re painfully, soberingly realistic. Those that were sent to the FT compromised scores of our corporate Google accounts. And one of those was mine.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
<\/p>\n
Innovation: Good Reads On Courage, Diversity, Ecosystems And Principles<\/a><\/h3>\nInnovation leaders generally operate in a world of \u201cwhat if\u201d\u00a0 and must constantly project the consequences and outcomes of complex systems.\u00a0 And the systems, because they are made up of human beings, tend to be messy, unpredictable, and highly variable. Thomas More shows us the power of narrativizing ideas and principles and the power of \u201cthe story\u201d to make real that which is not real.\u00a0 More important, though, Utopia is a wonderful example of what it means to think about the ecosystem as a whole when thinking about innovation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
<\/p>\n
Innovation<\/a><\/h3>\nBut I immediately blurted out something like, \u201cInnovation is two things. First, you obviously have to spot something that people aren’t doing yet. But second, most importantly, you need to have the courage to do something different than what you’ve grown comfortable doing.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
<\/p>\n
I type, therefore I am<\/a><\/h3>\nOnscreen, today\u2019s torrents of pixels exceed anything Auden could have imagined. Yet the hyper-verbal loneliness he evoked feels peculiarly contemporary. Increasingly, we interweave our actions and our rolling digital accounts of ourselves: curators and narrators of our life stories, with a matching move from internal to external monologue. It\u2019s a realm of elaborate shows in which status is hugely significant \u2014 and one in which articulacy itself risks turning into a game, with attention and impact (retweets, likes) held up as the supreme virtues of self-expression.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
<\/p>\n
The Story Behind the WWW Hypertext 91 Demo Page and UNC and me<\/a><\/h3>\nNot long after, Jim got email from Tim saying that he was submitting a paper on what was now called more briefly WWW at the upcoming Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) conference Hypertext 91 in San Antonio in December. Tim made plans to stop by UNC and visit with us before going on to Texas. He was confident given the immediate acceptance of WWW on newsgroups and as seen in his logs that he would get a good speaking slot at the conference.\u00a0A few weeks later, we learned differently.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
<\/p>\n
I’m afraid I thought this one as dire as its title<\/a><\/h3>\nFrom: Comedy Script Editor, Light Entertainment, Television
\nRoom No. & Building: 4009 TC
\nTel. Ext.: 2900
\ndate: 29.5.1974.<\/p>\n
Subject: “FAWLTY TOWERS” BY JOHN CLEESE & CONNIE BOOTH<\/p>\n
To: H.C.L.E.<\/p>\n
I’m afraid I thought this one as dire as its title.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\nIt’s a kind of “Prince of Denmark” of the hotel world. A collection of cliches and stock characters which I can’t see being anything but a disaster.<\/em><\/em><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n <\/p>\n
Gangsters, Drugs and Bassline – Sheffield’s war on Music<\/a><\/h3>\nNiche\u2019s notorious owner Steve Baxendale talks frankly about the rise and fall of Niche. Of how the Sheffield underground rave scene flourished around 1992, the time he set up Niche as an all-night House club. Bought, as one of Sheffield\u2019s many abandoned cutler warehouse, quite different from the luxury brand it became.\u00a0\u201cEveryone was sick of the commercial clubs and the military regime that they incorporated. They wanted throbbing underground music and to chill out in peace.\u201d<\/p>\n
About 10 days ago, the hacker or hackers calling themselves the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) carried out a very targeted cyberattack against the FT. We\u2019re not the first to be targeted and in fact as I write this we\u2019re not even the most recent. But the experience taught me an important lesson. Targeted attacks against a single large corporation are not like the random, almost embarrassingly fake emails you get telling you to reset your PayPal account. They\u2019re painfully, soberingly realistic. Those that were sent to the FT compromised scores of our corporate Google accounts. And one of those was mine.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
<\/p>\n
Innovation: Good Reads On Courage, Diversity, Ecosystems And Principles<\/a><\/h3>\nInnovation leaders generally operate in a world of \u201cwhat if\u201d\u00a0 and must constantly project the consequences and outcomes of complex systems.\u00a0 And the systems, because they are made up of human beings, tend to be messy, unpredictable, and highly variable. Thomas More shows us the power of narrativizing ideas and principles and the power of \u201cthe story\u201d to make real that which is not real.\u00a0 More important, though, Utopia is a wonderful example of what it means to think about the ecosystem as a whole when thinking about innovation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
<\/p>\n
Innovation<\/a><\/h3>\nBut I immediately blurted out something like, \u201cInnovation is two things. First, you obviously have to spot something that people aren’t doing yet. But second, most importantly, you need to have the courage to do something different than what you’ve grown comfortable doing.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
<\/p>\n
I type, therefore I am<\/a><\/h3>\nOnscreen, today\u2019s torrents of pixels exceed anything Auden could have imagined. Yet the hyper-verbal loneliness he evoked feels peculiarly contemporary. Increasingly, we interweave our actions and our rolling digital accounts of ourselves: curators and narrators of our life stories, with a matching move from internal to external monologue. It\u2019s a realm of elaborate shows in which status is hugely significant \u2014 and one in which articulacy itself risks turning into a game, with attention and impact (retweets, likes) held up as the supreme virtues of self-expression.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
<\/p>\n
The Story Behind the WWW Hypertext 91 Demo Page and UNC and me<\/a><\/h3>\nNot long after, Jim got email from Tim saying that he was submitting a paper on what was now called more briefly WWW at the upcoming Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) conference Hypertext 91 in San Antonio in December. Tim made plans to stop by UNC and visit with us before going on to Texas. He was confident given the immediate acceptance of WWW on newsgroups and as seen in his logs that he would get a good speaking slot at the conference.\u00a0A few weeks later, we learned differently.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
<\/p>\n
I’m afraid I thought this one as dire as its title<\/a><\/h3>\nFrom: Comedy Script Editor, Light Entertainment, Television
\nRoom No. & Building: 4009 TC
\nTel. Ext.: 2900
\ndate: 29.5.1974.<\/p>\n
Subject: “FAWLTY TOWERS” BY JOHN CLEESE & CONNIE BOOTH<\/p>\n
To: H.C.L.E.<\/p>\n
I’m afraid I thought this one as dire as its title.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\nIt’s a kind of “Prince of Denmark” of the hotel world. A collection of cliches and stock characters which I can’t see being anything but a disaster.<\/em><\/em><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n <\/p>\n
Gangsters, Drugs and Bassline – Sheffield’s war on Music<\/a><\/h3>\nNiche\u2019s notorious owner Steve Baxendale talks frankly about the rise and fall of Niche. Of how the Sheffield underground rave scene flourished around 1992, the time he set up Niche as an all-night House club. Bought, as one of Sheffield\u2019s many abandoned cutler warehouse, quite different from the luxury brand it became.\u00a0\u201cEveryone was sick of the commercial clubs and the military regime that they incorporated. They wanted throbbing underground music and to chill out in peace.\u201d<\/p>\n
Innovation leaders generally operate in a world of \u201cwhat if\u201d\u00a0 and must constantly project the consequences and outcomes of complex systems.\u00a0 And the systems, because they are made up of human beings, tend to be messy, unpredictable, and highly variable. Thomas More shows us the power of narrativizing ideas and principles and the power of \u201cthe story\u201d to make real that which is not real.\u00a0 More important, though, Utopia is a wonderful example of what it means to think about the ecosystem as a whole when thinking about innovation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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Innovation<\/a><\/h3>\nBut I immediately blurted out something like, \u201cInnovation is two things. First, you obviously have to spot something that people aren’t doing yet. But second, most importantly, you need to have the courage to do something different than what you’ve grown comfortable doing.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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I type, therefore I am<\/a><\/h3>\nOnscreen, today\u2019s torrents of pixels exceed anything Auden could have imagined. Yet the hyper-verbal loneliness he evoked feels peculiarly contemporary. Increasingly, we interweave our actions and our rolling digital accounts of ourselves: curators and narrators of our life stories, with a matching move from internal to external monologue. It\u2019s a realm of elaborate shows in which status is hugely significant \u2014 and one in which articulacy itself risks turning into a game, with attention and impact (retweets, likes) held up as the supreme virtues of self-expression.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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The Story Behind the WWW Hypertext 91 Demo Page and UNC and me<\/a><\/h3>\nNot long after, Jim got email from Tim saying that he was submitting a paper on what was now called more briefly WWW at the upcoming Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) conference Hypertext 91 in San Antonio in December. Tim made plans to stop by UNC and visit with us before going on to Texas. He was confident given the immediate acceptance of WWW on newsgroups and as seen in his logs that he would get a good speaking slot at the conference.\u00a0A few weeks later, we learned differently.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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I’m afraid I thought this one as dire as its title<\/a><\/h3>\nFrom: Comedy Script Editor, Light Entertainment, Television
\nRoom No. & Building: 4009 TC
\nTel. Ext.: 2900
\ndate: 29.5.1974.<\/p>\n
Subject: “FAWLTY TOWERS” BY JOHN CLEESE & CONNIE BOOTH<\/p>\n
To: H.C.L.E.<\/p>\n
I’m afraid I thought this one as dire as its title.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\nIt’s a kind of “Prince of Denmark” of the hotel world. A collection of cliches and stock characters which I can’t see being anything but a disaster.<\/em><\/em><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n <\/p>\n
Gangsters, Drugs and Bassline – Sheffield’s war on Music<\/a><\/h3>\nNiche\u2019s notorious owner Steve Baxendale talks frankly about the rise and fall of Niche. Of how the Sheffield underground rave scene flourished around 1992, the time he set up Niche as an all-night House club. Bought, as one of Sheffield\u2019s many abandoned cutler warehouse, quite different from the luxury brand it became.\u00a0\u201cEveryone was sick of the commercial clubs and the military regime that they incorporated. They wanted throbbing underground music and to chill out in peace.\u201d<\/p>\n
But I immediately blurted out something like, \u201cInnovation is two things. First, you obviously have to spot something that people aren’t doing yet. But second, most importantly, you need to have the courage to do something different than what you’ve grown comfortable doing.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
<\/p>\n
I type, therefore I am<\/a><\/h3>\nOnscreen, today\u2019s torrents of pixels exceed anything Auden could have imagined. Yet the hyper-verbal loneliness he evoked feels peculiarly contemporary. Increasingly, we interweave our actions and our rolling digital accounts of ourselves: curators and narrators of our life stories, with a matching move from internal to external monologue. It\u2019s a realm of elaborate shows in which status is hugely significant \u2014 and one in which articulacy itself risks turning into a game, with attention and impact (retweets, likes) held up as the supreme virtues of self-expression.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
<\/p>\n
The Story Behind the WWW Hypertext 91 Demo Page and UNC and me<\/a><\/h3>\nNot long after, Jim got email from Tim saying that he was submitting a paper on what was now called more briefly WWW at the upcoming Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) conference Hypertext 91 in San Antonio in December. Tim made plans to stop by UNC and visit with us before going on to Texas. He was confident given the immediate acceptance of WWW on newsgroups and as seen in his logs that he would get a good speaking slot at the conference.\u00a0A few weeks later, we learned differently.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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I’m afraid I thought this one as dire as its title<\/a><\/h3>\nFrom: Comedy Script Editor, Light Entertainment, Television
\nRoom No. & Building: 4009 TC
\nTel. Ext.: 2900
\ndate: 29.5.1974.<\/p>\n
Subject: “FAWLTY TOWERS” BY JOHN CLEESE & CONNIE BOOTH<\/p>\n
To: H.C.L.E.<\/p>\n
I’m afraid I thought this one as dire as its title.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\nIt’s a kind of “Prince of Denmark” of the hotel world. A collection of cliches and stock characters which I can’t see being anything but a disaster.<\/em><\/em><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n <\/p>\n
Gangsters, Drugs and Bassline – Sheffield’s war on Music<\/a><\/h3>\nNiche\u2019s notorious owner Steve Baxendale talks frankly about the rise and fall of Niche. Of how the Sheffield underground rave scene flourished around 1992, the time he set up Niche as an all-night House club. Bought, as one of Sheffield\u2019s many abandoned cutler warehouse, quite different from the luxury brand it became.\u00a0\u201cEveryone was sick of the commercial clubs and the military regime that they incorporated. They wanted throbbing underground music and to chill out in peace.\u201d<\/p>\n
Onscreen, today\u2019s torrents of pixels exceed anything Auden could have imagined. Yet the hyper-verbal loneliness he evoked feels peculiarly contemporary. Increasingly, we interweave our actions and our rolling digital accounts of ourselves: curators and narrators of our life stories, with a matching move from internal to external monologue. It\u2019s a realm of elaborate shows in which status is hugely significant \u2014 and one in which articulacy itself risks turning into a game, with attention and impact (retweets, likes) held up as the supreme virtues of self-expression.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
<\/p>\n
The Story Behind the WWW Hypertext 91 Demo Page and UNC and me<\/a><\/h3>\nNot long after, Jim got email from Tim saying that he was submitting a paper on what was now called more briefly WWW at the upcoming Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) conference Hypertext 91 in San Antonio in December. Tim made plans to stop by UNC and visit with us before going on to Texas. He was confident given the immediate acceptance of WWW on newsgroups and as seen in his logs that he would get a good speaking slot at the conference.\u00a0A few weeks later, we learned differently.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
<\/p>\n
I’m afraid I thought this one as dire as its title<\/a><\/h3>\nFrom: Comedy Script Editor, Light Entertainment, Television
\nRoom No. & Building: 4009 TC
\nTel. Ext.: 2900
\ndate: 29.5.1974.<\/p>\n
Subject: “FAWLTY TOWERS” BY JOHN CLEESE & CONNIE BOOTH<\/p>\n
To: H.C.L.E.<\/p>\n
I’m afraid I thought this one as dire as its title.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\nIt’s a kind of “Prince of Denmark” of the hotel world. A collection of cliches and stock characters which I can’t see being anything but a disaster.<\/em><\/em><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n <\/p>\n
Gangsters, Drugs and Bassline – Sheffield’s war on Music<\/a><\/h3>\nNiche\u2019s notorious owner Steve Baxendale talks frankly about the rise and fall of Niche. Of how the Sheffield underground rave scene flourished around 1992, the time he set up Niche as an all-night House club. Bought, as one of Sheffield\u2019s many abandoned cutler warehouse, quite different from the luxury brand it became.\u00a0\u201cEveryone was sick of the commercial clubs and the military regime that they incorporated. They wanted throbbing underground music and to chill out in peace.\u201d<\/p>\n
Not long after, Jim got email from Tim saying that he was submitting a paper on what was now called more briefly WWW at the upcoming Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) conference Hypertext 91 in San Antonio in December. Tim made plans to stop by UNC and visit with us before going on to Texas. He was confident given the immediate acceptance of WWW on newsgroups and as seen in his logs that he would get a good speaking slot at the conference.\u00a0A few weeks later, we learned differently.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
<\/p>\n
I’m afraid I thought this one as dire as its title<\/a><\/h3>\nFrom: Comedy Script Editor, Light Entertainment, Television
\nRoom No. & Building: 4009 TC
\nTel. Ext.: 2900
\ndate: 29.5.1974.<\/p>\n
Subject: “FAWLTY TOWERS” BY JOHN CLEESE & CONNIE BOOTH<\/p>\n
To: H.C.L.E.<\/p>\n
I’m afraid I thought this one as dire as its title.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\nIt’s a kind of “Prince of Denmark” of the hotel world. A collection of cliches and stock characters which I can’t see being anything but a disaster.<\/em><\/em><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n <\/p>\n
Gangsters, Drugs and Bassline – Sheffield’s war on Music<\/a><\/h3>\nNiche\u2019s notorious owner Steve Baxendale talks frankly about the rise and fall of Niche. Of how the Sheffield underground rave scene flourished around 1992, the time he set up Niche as an all-night House club. Bought, as one of Sheffield\u2019s many abandoned cutler warehouse, quite different from the luxury brand it became.\u00a0\u201cEveryone was sick of the commercial clubs and the military regime that they incorporated. They wanted throbbing underground music and to chill out in peace.\u201d<\/p>\n
From: Comedy Script Editor, Light Entertainment, Television
\nRoom No. & Building: 4009 TC
\nTel. Ext.: 2900
\ndate: 29.5.1974.<\/p>\n
Subject: “FAWLTY TOWERS” BY JOHN CLEESE & CONNIE BOOTH<\/p>\n
To: H.C.L.E.<\/p>\n
I’m afraid I thought this one as dire as its title.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n It’s a kind of “Prince of Denmark” of the hotel world. A collection of cliches and stock characters which I can’t see being anything but a disaster.<\/em><\/em><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n <\/p>\n Niche\u2019s notorious owner Steve Baxendale talks frankly about the rise and fall of Niche. Of how the Sheffield underground rave scene flourished around 1992, the time he set up Niche as an all-night House club. Bought, as one of Sheffield\u2019s many abandoned cutler warehouse, quite different from the luxury brand it became.\u00a0\u201cEveryone was sick of the commercial clubs and the military regime that they incorporated. They wanted throbbing underground music and to chill out in peace.\u201d<\/p>\nGangsters, Drugs and Bassline – Sheffield’s war on Music<\/a><\/h3>\n