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The Six-Month Review
I’ve now been blogging on Forbes for six months, and I figured I am due for a roundup. My big hit of the half-year was The Rise of Developeronomics, which got Slashdotted. It is also my personal...
View ArticleAn Organization Design Renaissance
There was a time, not so long ago, when cynical corporate veterans tended to look upon organization design efforts with tired skepticism. Especially efforts involving bean-bag chairs and visions of...
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What is Good for Facebook is Good for America
The Facebook IPO is going to be a watershed event in the history of technology. Even though there have been other major tech IPOs in the post-2000-bust era, such as LinkedIn, Demand Media, Groupon and...
View ArticleNextBigThingOlogy: The World After Facebook
What’s the next big thing after Facebook? For those of us who don’t have a meaty piece of the ongoing action, that’s a fun question. So I decided to resurrect my answer to that question on Quora (well,...
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Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Displays, But Didn’t Know Whom to Ask
A few weeks ago, around the time Pebble was breaking records on Kickstarter, I happened to be exchanging emails with Sriram Peruvemba, a veteran of the display industry and currently CMO at E Ink...
View ArticleThen and Now: The Re-Imagination of Nearly Everything
A slide-deck from Mary Meeker of Kleiner Perkins from the D10 conference yesterday has been doing the rounds. The deck, titled Internet Trends 2012. This is the sort of presentation that tends to go...
View ArticleThe Real Reason for Microsoft’s Woes
It’s been a busy and lazy summer, so I’ve had little surplus time and energy to keep up with my Forbes blogging, so I’ve been sort of taking a sabbatical. But I figured I couldn’t let Kurt Eichenwald’s...
View ArticleEntrepreneurs are the New Labor: Part I
Part I | Part II | Part III For the last few months, I’ve been cautiously testing a radical-sounding hypothesis on smart people: entrepreneurs are the new labor. Or to put it in a more useful way, the...
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Entrepreneurs are the New Labor: Part II
Part I | Part II | Part III When you examine the 19th century pattern of transformation of an entrepreneurial class into a labor class, which we covered in Part I, the conclusion is obvious: a labor...
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Entrepreneurs are the New Labor: Part III
Part I | Part II | Part III In the first two parts, we covered the history of the entrepreneurs-to-labor dynamic in the Robber Baron era, and how the pattern is roughly repeating itself in our time. I...
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Soon, We Will All Be Hipsters
If we narrowly define “hipster” as someone who consumes brands ironically, we might all soon become hipsters. At least if companies and brands manage to do their part and “scale up” social media...
View ArticleAmazon Needs a Public Editor
This just came to my attention: a pretty astounding case of Orwellian autocracy from Amazon. If the details are not being grossly misrepresented here, Amazon (UK) appears to be basically subjecting a...
View ArticleThinking, Fast and Slow: Big Data, Sandy and the Media
A couple of days back, after watching the addictive stream of fake and real pictures emerging from New York, and following the fascinating real-time efforts by the Atlantic and the “Is Twitter Wrong?”...
View Article2012 Roundup: From GitHub to New Labor
I’ve been a Forbes contributor for over a year now, and though I don’t often get the urge to comment on current events, when I do, I turn to Dos Equis…I mean Forbes. Those of you who follow my main...
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