Rob Grady

NYTimes article on Steve Jobs. Everything he touched didn’t turn to gold but he sure learned. http://nyti.ms/clStxm

I’ve been a fan of Dan Roam and his visual problem solving methodology for a few years now. I was lucky to hear him speak at SXSW 2010 this year and he presented an abbreviated version of  his Back of the Napkin Health Care presentation. It really does a great job of simplifying a very [...]

Here are excerpts from this article that discusses two types of technical debt “The first kind of technical debt is the kind that is incurred unintentionally. For example, a design approach just turns out to be error-prone or a junior programmer just writes bad code. This technical debt is the non-strategic result of doing a [...]

Here is a presentation of Colin Powell’s leadership principles that I’ve always found these leadership principles to be insightful. Lesson 1 Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off. Lesson 2 The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help [...]

Inc Magazine has an article on ‘Lean Product Development’, an emerging business philosophy that has recently gained a lot of momentum. Applying lean concepts to product management is the latest in the application of lean manufacturing to software development over the last few years. While a Lean Product Development, evangelized by Eric Ries and Steve [...]

“People have a strong tendency to attribute the behavior of others to dispositional rather than situational factors, that is, tribute the behavior of others to character and especially character flaws rather than the system in which these people are acting.”

Great post: When Talking About Business Models, Remember That Profits Equal Revenues Minus Costs

Thanks to High Scalability for publicizing a very cool paper on Spamalytics. The paper Spamalytics: An Empirical Analysis of Spam Marketing Conversion is a fascinating (academic) read about spam conversion. I’ve always assumed that spamming must be profitable at least for the anti-spam industry. This paper not only outlines the underlying economics but the Storm [...]

Here is a great quote from British economist Paul Ormerod’s book Why Most Things Fail, “The tendency to overemphasize successes and to rationalize them ex post is chronically endemic amongst business historians and management consultants. The latter group are particularly prone to the temptation of claiming to have found the unique formula of business success. [...]