A person with two watches is never sure about time
As the old saying goes: “A person with a watch knows the time; a person with two watches is never sure.” The single view of data is crucial in today’s rapid business, but data quality is essential and it has big problems right now. So many different sources. So many systems. It makes it hard...
The end of The New Normal – McKinsey
I just love this article from McKinsey. It ends like this: “Companies seeking high rates of income and consumption growth will increasingly look to Asia. The fundamental drivers of Asian growth—productivity gains, technology adoption, and cultural and institutional changes—did not halt as a result of the 1997 Asian financial crisis. And Asian economies—though they have...
Honorable mentions in Yahoo mashup contest
I sent an idea I had for a while to a contest at Yahoo for their BOSS mashup in october 2008. And I got honorable mentions! Yay. It was a really early sketch but I took it away immediately after the contest. It came out pretty nice given the time. Yet another spare-time project.
Being inside the structure
To be in the middle of thousands of actions from different information sources simultaneously could be wanted. Like being next to a cell while it divides. It gives some information you couldn’t figure out beforehand… Being inside a nova while it expands or collides with a galaxy. Could observe things not observable… Like being witness...
