Carman Pirie's Blog

Love TV, fear the internet

The winner, in the category of "Outstanding Tilting at Windmills" from Sunday night's Emmys, (in case you missed it) was Barry Sonnenfeld with the following acceptance speech drivel:  

"Love TV, fear the internet".

Jeez... thanks for that, Barry.  Good work.

You may now return to regularly scheduled programming.

Exponential connectivity

I think many of us are just incredibly curious about how the growth of the Internet, and the human connectivity it enables, is changing business (or more broadly, society as a whole).  The exponential growth rate at which this is happening makes it all the more interesting, I find. Which makes this lecture by Albert Bartlett (I'm just finishing Part 3 as I type this) worth the time:

Earls on case studies

A nice little post by Mark Earls on the utility (or lack thereof) of case studies. I've long found the whole idea of 'best practice' and 'benchmarking' a tad restricting while leaving little room for innovation. My experience has been that many organizations, once they learn of the best practice, stop looking for an even better practice. Bliss Carman said that "A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease". And so it is with best practice / benchmarking all too often.

Interesting, however, that best practice thinking is likely fueled in some way by our very human desire to do what others do...