confused of calcutta

Whenever I get the chance, I talk to people about just how they use Facebook as part of their day-to-day business. Today it was my sister Jayapriya’s turn. She runs a literary agency out of India and China and Singapore and a few other places, and was in town for the book far.
She described how [...]

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A couple of days ago I read a headline in the Financial Times (strange, the things I get up to on vacation!):
Airlines and their regulator too “collaborative” says watchdog
You can find the article here. [For some reason, the headline in the print copy is not the headline in the linked article, but the change of [...]

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I guess most of you have seen this by now, it’s been doing the rounds these past few days. (My apologies, I can’t actually remember where I first saw it and saved the diagram. When I remember I will make sure I give credit appropriately.):

 
It reminded me of the Indexed blog, where Jessica Hagy has [...]

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Artificial abundances.
I’d spent quite some time thinking about artificial scarcities, but never really considered the possibility of abundances being artificial as well.
That’s the problem with being on holiday, your mind goes off in all kinds of tangents. This post is actually the result of my reading the following article in today’s FT: US steps up [...]

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Most of you are aware of my consuming interest in how Facebook creates value for the enterprise. Over the past eighteen months or so, I’ve written a large number of posts on the subject, and am currently in the process of converting them into a book. [Before you ask, the book will be a free [...]

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]I was due to meet my family at Miami airport earlier this evening; we had these wondrous plans that involved me driving from Sundance to Salt Lake City, flying from there to Denver and on to Miami, reaching there just in time to collect my wife and children as they flew in from London. 
I made [...]

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I’m not a traditional company investor. Since 1987, the only stakes I’ve held have been in the companies I worked for, and they’ve been acquired while I worked for them. That’s been a Rule for me.
Rules, however, are proven by exception. And I’ve made an exception.
School of Everything.
Regular readers will know that I have a [...]

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