Newletter here: http://bit.ly/hGcyz5.
Brad
13 January 2011
Business Models
This is from Ramon Casadesus-Masanell: http://bit.ly/eVi2c5. His main
point is that a business model may work well in the lab or in the
abstract, but not work well in real life. He also emphasizes the
winner-take-all model.
The picture the editors chose for the article is great, but I can't
make it fit the article. Here is what the picture makes me think of
("Things fall apart, the centre cannot hold"):
THE SECOND COMING
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: a waste of desert sand;
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Wind shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
WB Yeats
Brad
point is that a business model may work well in the lab or in the
abstract, but not work well in real life. He also emphasizes the
winner-take-all model.
The picture the editors chose for the article is great, but I can't
make it fit the article. Here is what the picture makes me think of
("Things fall apart, the centre cannot hold"):
THE SECOND COMING
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: a waste of desert sand;
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Wind shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
WB Yeats
Brad
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
There was a report in Science suggesting that a retrovirus, XMRV, was
the cause of chronic fatigue syndrome. It was cultured from some
patients with the condition.
Now, further studies have cast doubt on that hypothesis (http://bit.ly/
ejH2wT).
This happens a lot-ideas that look promising in early studies fail in
subsequent studies.
If I weren't a born cynic, I'm sure that being in medicine would have
made me one.
Brad
the cause of chronic fatigue syndrome. It was cultured from some
patients with the condition.
Now, further studies have cast doubt on that hypothesis (http://bit.ly/
ejH2wT).
This happens a lot-ideas that look promising in early studies fail in
subsequent studies.
If I weren't a born cynic, I'm sure that being in medicine would have
made me one.
Brad
Corporate Guff
If you are not a native English-speaker, you may worry that, by
speaking and writing, you butcher the language. Anything you do is
small compared to what corporate executives do every day. There is
also the suspicion that their output is the result of confused
thinking. Here is my favorite, Lucy Kellaway, on her corporate guff
awards for 2010: http://bit.ly/fOeHaP.
Brad
speaking and writing, you butcher the language. Anything you do is
small compared to what corporate executives do every day. There is
also the suspicion that their output is the result of confused
thinking. Here is my favorite, Lucy Kellaway, on her corporate guff
awards for 2010: http://bit.ly/fOeHaP.
Brad
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