Money and Finance
- Forget The Living Room: Amazon Is Fighting For Your Whole Damn House
Found via Abnormal Returns. Some of the world’s largest technology companies are eyeing your entertainment center. Google has its Google TV platform and has dabbled in its own hardware, albeit with disastrous results. Apple can’t organize an event...
- Robert X. Cringely On His 'lost Interview' With Steve Jobs
Found via The Big Picture. It’s a little absurd to interview someone about an interview. But back in 1995, Robert X. Cringely landed a hell of an interview with a hell of a subject, at what was — in retrospect — a hell of a moment. Steve Jobs was...
- Gary Taubes Talk On Why We Get Fat
This talk was given on April 15th at the “Western Regional Obesity Conference” in Seattle. Link to: Why We Get Fat: Adiposity 101 and the Alternative Hypothesis of Obesity .................... Interview at the conference:Part 1Part 2Part 3 Book: Good...
- Chris Martenson: The Crash Course In 45 Minutes (or Less)
To commemorate our one-year anniversary, I'm pleased to announce that I am posting a free, condensed, 45-minute version of the Crash Course for your viewing enjoyment. The presentation it contains is part of a public talk delivered in Boulder, Colorado,...
- The New Untouchables - By Thomas Friedman
Last summer I attended a talk by Michelle Rhee, the dynamic chancellor of public schools in Washington. Just before the session began, a man came up, introduced himself as Todd Martin and whispered to me that what Rhee was about to speak about — our...
Money and Finance
How Tim Cook is changing Apple
Steve Jobs' successor is making his mark and trying to keep the Apple magic going.
In February of this year, a group of investors visited Apple as part of a "bus tour" led by a research analyst for Citibank. The session started with a 45-minute presentation by Peter Oppenheimer, Apple's chief financial officer, and the 15 or so investors who attended the session were treated to Apple's unique brand of hospitality: They met in a threadbare conference room in Apple's Town Hall public conference center at the 4 Infinite Loop building in Cupertino, Calif., where the refreshments consisted of "three stale cookies and two Diet Cokes," in the words of one participant.
All that, save the meager refreshments, is routine for big public companies in Silicon Valley, which use the check-ins as opportunities to communicate with large owners of their stock. What shocked the Apple (AAPL) investors that day was that CEO Tim Cook popped into the room about 20 minutes into Oppenheimer's talk, quietly sat down in the back of the room, and did something unusual for a CEO of Apple: He listened. He didn't check his e-mail once. He didn't interrupt.
- Forget The Living Room: Amazon Is Fighting For Your Whole Damn House
Found via Abnormal Returns. Some of the world’s largest technology companies are eyeing your entertainment center. Google has its Google TV platform and has dabbled in its own hardware, albeit with disastrous results. Apple can’t organize an event...
- Robert X. Cringely On His 'lost Interview' With Steve Jobs
Found via The Big Picture. It’s a little absurd to interview someone about an interview. But back in 1995, Robert X. Cringely landed a hell of an interview with a hell of a subject, at what was — in retrospect — a hell of a moment. Steve Jobs was...
- Gary Taubes Talk On Why We Get Fat
This talk was given on April 15th at the “Western Regional Obesity Conference” in Seattle. Link to: Why We Get Fat: Adiposity 101 and the Alternative Hypothesis of Obesity .................... Interview at the conference:Part 1Part 2Part 3 Book: Good...
- Chris Martenson: The Crash Course In 45 Minutes (or Less)
To commemorate our one-year anniversary, I'm pleased to announce that I am posting a free, condensed, 45-minute version of the Crash Course for your viewing enjoyment. The presentation it contains is part of a public talk delivered in Boulder, Colorado,...
- The New Untouchables - By Thomas Friedman
Last summer I attended a talk by Michelle Rhee, the dynamic chancellor of public schools in Washington. Just before the session began, a man came up, introduced himself as Todd Martin and whispered to me that what Rhee was about to speak about — our...