The iPhone has completely changed how I interact with information on the go. When I travel I leave the notebook at home.
Steve RubelA prominent mention in The Wall Street Journal a couple of weeks ago garnered me a whopping 40 visitors.
Steve RubelThe bigger story here is that the fabric of the Net has changed; itโs a place for people to connect up around shared interests and then collaborate towards some sort of action.
Steve RubelThe Lazysphere - a working definition - is a group of bloggers who I won't name by name, but you can spot them a mile away. Rather than create new ideas or pen thoughtful essays, they simply glom on to the latest news with another "me too" blog post.
Steve RubelSo as I thought about it, the most important "tool" you can have today in business is insatiable curiosity. The minute you lose it, you're dead.
Steve RubelLet's face it, we're skunk drunk and it's because of money. It's almost like we all need to enter Betty Ford Clinic 2.0 together. This time, it's not stock market money but private equity, M&A, VCs and to some degree the reckless abandonment of logic by some advertisers who are perpetuating what is sure to end badly when the economy turns. Hubris is back my friends.
Steve Rubel