I hate to be so timely, but I saw a Steve Jobs quote today that I like.
When you first start off trying to solve a problem, the first solutions you come up with are very complex, and most people stop there. But if you keep going, and live with the problem and peel more layers of the onion off, you can often times arrive at some very elegant and simple solutions. Most people just don’t put in the time or energy to get there.
He’s talking about design, but it goes for so many other things we…
Few ideas in history have been more widely repeated, debated and dissected than the following three words:
Cogito ergo sum.
This was the philosophy of Rene Descartes. I think therefore I am.
THE GOOD NEWS IS: I am not going to attempt to debate this philosophy.
Instead, I’ve adopted Rene Descartes’ formula and developed a few rationalist philosophies of my own:
1. I write therefore I know. Until you write it out, you don’t know what you know. Until you write it out, you…
Dear Photograph,
I fell in love with a woman. I’m not ready to let go…but she is.
McKenzie Dillingham
I first became interested in decision making more than a decade ago, back when I was running marketing at Business Objects. My interest was prompted by the evolution of taglines among BI vendors. In the early days, taglines were descriptive like First in Enterprise Decision Support or The Enterprise Data Mart Company.
Over time, pressure mounted on marketing to pitch benefits — the message shouldn’t just be about getting people information, but the benefit of having it. Slogans evolved…
Today we’re launching a brand new product called Intercom—a tool to help web app owners build and manage relationships with their users.
Some time in early 2010 I wandered into a little Dublin coffee shop that seemed to sprout up out of nowhere. It was run by first-time business owner Colin Harmon. Through Colin’s friendly, open approach, he turned a random punter into a loyal customer. As a loyal customer I walk past many cafés to get to 3fe, I…
When you are considering technology selection or strategy, there are a lot of factors that can each have bearing on the final decision — a whole lot. Below is a very partial list.
In almost any IT decision, there are a number of environmental constraints that need to be acknowledged. Organizations may have standard vendors, favored vendors, or simply vendors who give them particularly deep discounts. Legacy systems are in place, application and system alike, and may or may not be open to…
The Journey
Today, I am proud to announce the launch of Lytro and share our plans to bring an amazing new kind of camera to the consumer market.
This journey started for me eight years ago when I was in the PhD program at Stanford University. I loved photography then as I do now, but I was frustrated and puzzled by the apparent limitations of cameras. For example, I remember trying to take photos of Mei-Ahn, the five-year-old daughter of a close friend, but because she was so full of life,…
