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A Video on Pen Computing

http://www.prendismo.com/viewclip.cfm?clipId=1131


Jeff Hawkins Biography
Chairman, Handspring
Jeff Hawkins - Lecture - Entrepreneurship, Palm Computing and Handspring

Being an Entrepreneur is Only One Stage of a Business Career

http://www.prendismo.com/playAll.cfm?id=15&caseId=35

Being an Entrepreneur is Only One Stage of a Business Career

Undergraduate and Early Career Experiences
01:01 Choosing Corporate over Academic and Developing First Product
00:42 Passion for Product Development Which Led to Becoming an Entrepreneur
00:57 Starting a Software Company for Handheld Computers - Palm Computing
00:55 First Product Failure and Following Market Research
00:55 Decision to Move Forward and Start a New Company
01:38 Developing the Palm Pilot and Raising Additional Funds to Get to Market
05:47 A Video on Pen Computing
00:49 Handling Rejections and Finding an Acquiring Company
02:24 Decision to Leave Palm and Start New Company Handspring
01:00 Handspring's Relationship with Palm
00:23 Handspring's New Handheld Product - Visor
00:49 Funding New Company, Handspring
01:01 Taking Handspring Public
02:46 Future of Handheld and Wireless Technology
01:57 Being an Entrepreneur is Only One Stage of a Business Career
05:21 Gold Rush Analogy as it Relates to the Internet Boom
01:17 Importance of Following Your Passion - Which for Him is the Product
01:06 Maintaining a Balance and Finding Happiness
00:55 Connection Between PDA Products and Neurology
01:02 Different Role of Operating Systems in Desktops Versus Handhelds
00:58 Entrepreneurs Who Deserve Admiration
00:49 Competition
00:54 Thoughts on Voice Recognition Technology


So now I'm gonna turn my comments to the present, and give you some suggestions about some advice, perhaps. I have a normal set of top ten lessons from Jeff that I give to people, and I was going to give it here, but I decided not to, I decided to try something different. I met with a number of students yesterday, and I was surprised by the number of times I was asked a particular question, and it seemed to be something that was resonating with a number of them. They were basically asking, "What should I do? Should I finish my degree, or go start a business now?" or "Should I finish my degree, and go work from someplace, and then start a business?" Those were the choices; I'm gonna start a business, so should I do it immediately before I finish school, or should I do it right after I finish school, or do I have to work someplace first? It was a legitimate question, and I didn't think there was an easy answer to it. And, so when somebody asked me that, I said, "You know, I don't think that's an easy question to answer, I don't think there's a yes or no, but I'm gonna try an analogy on you, and work through it with you." And I didn't really have time to rehearse this to myself, forgive me if I get a little off track here, but, first thing to remember is that entrepreneur is not a career. It's not something you do for your life. If you're successful as an entrepreneur, you very quickly become a business person. The people that are usually entrepreneurs for careers are usually the people that aren't successful at it! It's also not a title! Some people say, "I hate those boxes, when you fill in those forms, they say what's your position, what do you do for a living", and you know, you're not an entrepreneur, that's not something you do for a living, that's a kind of embarrassing thing for me to admit. And I don't know what to say, engineer, business person, product person, I don't know. But anyway, you gotta remember that it's a set of business principles, or business tools that can be applied for starting companies and growing companies, and you gotta bear that in mind.

Thoughts on Graduate Education

http://www.prendismo.com/viewclip.cfm?id=446&clipId=10668

We should not stereotype, it's like saying is the BS in a hotel school a dinosaur too or you know... I don't think it's necessarily true. I think that there is a core curriculum that has to be provided; it has to be provided for young people in certain areas of knowledge that they have to have. I think the MBA that turns out somebody that works in the accounting department of Ford and is prevented from even exerting their intelligence other than factual detailed stuff that comes to their desk, you're certainly going to waste an MBA to do that. I don't think... you know, it's fine to have the education but you're not going to use it, but the individual who comes out of any decent MBA program, who has a foundation of knowledge then understands... has also desire and ability to make impact, I don't think the MBA necessarily hurts. I think people who write books about this stuff, ten to one package it in a way that describes anything... but everything is the same. It's really not. What you have in this room is a group of 25 of 30 people, all of whom are very different, all of whom have different personalities and different skill sets. What you're doing is providing them a foundation of education, a way of looking at the world through an education vision. However, they then have to go and look at the world through the eyes they see when they get out and I think it's really up to them and the environments that they're in. Certain MBAs from schools that the peer group is not as exciting or as interesting as some other MBAs will probably have no use for that MBA but the ones that are and want it, I think can get it. So I would take an opposite... I would take an opposite view for that. My own view of education is you get as much as you can when you can because it's going to be a gap period in your life where when you're working, you can't get it and that ... I'm a perfect example of that. I mean I stopped really doing anything outside the hotel business for maybe 30 years because 30 years every minute of my mind was focused on learning my business and learning everything that was in the business. So if somebody says something I knew about it, I could talk about it, I could relate to it. I wanted to know it. It was my... that was my PhD essentially, and then as soon as I sold my business seven years ago, or eight years ago, I started to take courses again and so now I'm learning from a whole different perspective. So I think that that's going to happen to the young people here too. They're going to get blocked in their ability within their organizations. But I think that the education they're getting here or an MBAs later on ... you know they're still going to have the opportunity. So I don't ... it's a good question but I don't really agree with it.

Working From Home

Eco-Centric Luxury

Leadership The Dior Way

Andrea Wong's Success

Mika Brzezinski's Painful Exit

Mika Brzezinski's Painful Exit

Evelyn Lauder's Awareness

Cathie Black On Leadership

Elements Of Success

Cathie Black's Essential Mistakes

Meg Whitman Builds A Team

The Wrong Pitch

Selective Attention

Toshiba's Comeback

Bet’s Fish Fry (Boothbay, ME)

Bet’s Fish Fry (Boothbay, ME)
Booth Boy Road & Common Drive

One of my favorite shoots to date was this one, at Bet’s Fish Fry in Boothbay Harbor. This hardly talked about street food delight is owned and operated by one of the sweetest people I’ve ever met. Besides being loved by the locals, Bet dishes out some mean fried haddock and fries. Next summer be sure to plan a road trip around Bet’s Fish Fry.

Anatomy of Apple Design

Anatomy of Apple Design from Transparent House on Vimeo.

Transparent House used its visualization capabilities to create a tribute to a company they greatly admire on the occasion of the iPad release. The idea was to show a glimpse into the history of this product giant by modeling some of the innovative products they've developed in their 3+ decade history.

The animation was done entirely using 3Ds Max and V-Ray render and took about 10 days to complete. Professionally done 3D visualization is the perfect tool to present concepts or new products in a beautiful, photoreal style, while creating a mood with music and conveying a message, through on-screen text or narration.

This animation was an artistic exercise and not intended for commercial use. The animation is not affiliated with Apple or any third-party companies. We hope this animation will be used mainly as an educational tool for the 3d visualization or/and design industry.

Update: We get a lot of comments and questions on why iMacs or iPods were not shown in the animation. The movie was done on the occasion of release of iPad. We wanted to show the products in Apple history that in our opinion were best related to the nature of the iPad. There were also time limitations - we just couldn' t get every product in.

Paul Krugman Profile In The New Yorker Links To Loudon Wainwright III Singing 'The Krugman Blues' (VIDEO)

In short, standing in angry opposition to the Bush administration had its fun kicks, but watching the Obama administration flail has given him... well, the blues. And with that, I'm going to turn it over to Loudon Wainwright III:



Larissa McFarquhar's lengthy profile of Paul Krugman in the New Yorker ("The Deflationist") chronicles how the prominent economist/columnist went from being a writer mainly concerned with the "smart and stupid" to one concerned with matters of "left and right."

It's the story of a conversion -- not from one political point of view to another, but rather how he came to participate in the mean-minded field at all.

(Also, scroll down to see the NewYorker.com video of folk singer Loudon Wainwright III crooning "The Krugman Blues". Sample line: "Sometimes when he's on the TV, in the background you can spot his school logo. Paul teaches at Princeton U, so Krugman ought to know.")

McFarquhar notes:

When Krugman first began writing articles for popular publications, in the mid-nineties, Bill Clinton was in office, and Krugman thought of the left and the right as more or less equal in power. Thus, there was no pressing need for him to take sides--he would shoot down idiocy wherever it presented itself, which was, in his opinion, all over the place. He thought of himself as a liberal, but he was a liberal economist, which wasn't quite the same thing as a regular liberal.
And as a liberal economist, he was tired of the typical political battles ("Supply-siders never tire of proclaiming that taxes are the root of all evil, but reasonable people do get tired of explaining, over and over again, that they aren't"), and the state of play hadn't yet reached the point where his faith was badly shaken ("Occasionally, he received letters from people claiming that corporations were cooking the books, but he thought this sounded so implausible that he dismissed them").

Ultimately, and not particularly surprisingly, it was the election of George W. Bush that galvanized Krugman to enter into ideological combat. But McFarquhar does a fine job of pointing out that Krugman never really gave up preferring to fight the battle of "smart versus stupid." He's been a vigorous critic of the Obama administration's policies and politics ever since the early 2008 primary season. However, she also notes that the process of shifting from a Bush critic to an Obama critic hasn't always been as fun:

But most people didn't see Obama the way Krugman did; they thought he was the savior of the left, and the passions of the campaign were such that when Krugman wrote columns deriding Obama he was lacerated--scathing comments on the progressive blogs, more hate mail, and not the fun kind. "I won't try for fake evenhandedness here," Krugman wrote. "The Obama campaign seems dangerously close to becoming a cult of personality." "OK, you did it," one commenter wrote in response. "You lost me. I've defended you on local blogs but you've sunk into low territory." "You're devolving into a caricature with your gross misrepresentations and strident, ignorant defense of the Clinton campaign," another wrote. "Paul, you're killing a little bit of your readers' souls," a third wrote, "or at least those of us who used to love your column." "The primary was terrible, it was awful," Krugman says.

"Paul was getting attacked by people we thought of as on our side," Wells says. "I thought to myself, Well, I knew things were going to change, but this is quick and hard enough to give you whiplash. One of our friends said, 'You'd better be careful, because Obama supporters might put rattlesnakes in your mailbox.' People said, 'Oh, Paul's son works in Hillary's campaign.' " (Krugman has no children.) "People were so upset and angry after Bush, they had taken leave of their senses. They wanted to give themselves over, and they resented people like Paul who said, 'No, don't give yourselves over, think about what's going on.' They wanted to feel that they were being redeemed, and this is what Obama was offering, but he doesn't have the right or the ability to redeem people; that's not appropriate."