Neil Perkin examines the success of the New York Times paywall. In a nutshell, it works because it’s porous.
Porosity is a concept that’s caught my attention before. I guess it goes pretty closely with a tolerance for ambiguity.
I went down to Surrey on Friday for long walk and pub lunch with Neil Perkin. We’d originally planned to run a workshop about agile
Antonio Dias offers a fascinating description of what goes wrong when drowning: What separates a swimmer from someone drowning is the way a swimmer acknowledges
Viv picks out some nice ideas from Phelim McDermott on the subject of leadership. “We love the security of the illusion that someone is in
I’ve been thinking about the urge to scale things lately – see here and here. I understand the concern with being able to effect big
In moving house, I radically downsized my collection of books which I can highly recommend. I used to think I’d one day find a reason
I really enjoy Chris Rodgers’ views on leadership. He argues against the assumption that it takes great leadership for organisations to succeed. He suggests that
Thanks to my Improvisation friend Kelsey Flynn I rambled into a letter cited in Margaret Cho’s Blog (go to Letter #1): Lately it seems like
I wanted to share this email doing the rounds this morning… AIRCRAFT MAINTENANCE After every flight Qantas pilots fill out a form called a gripe
These came to be via Tony Quinlan from Terry Tillman at 227company. “You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than
Yesterday I got an email from Loren Ekroth of Conversation Matters. It touches on a favourite theme of mine and here it is verbatim. “Christmas
I keep meaning to write a long, well-argued rant against a basic assumption in much corporate thinking: that we’re all basically computers on legs that simply need reprogramming to achieve
I’ve been rereading stuff by David Bohm and my head is full of his ideas. Too full for me to put them into decent form in a blog post. Fortunately,
Adriana spotted this comment by Thor about Digg’s policy on the AACS Hex code business. Whatever the “right” decision was for Digg regarding whether or not to delete the offending
Robert Paterson's Weblog: #Immigration – Asking Better Policy Questions = Getting better results Rob has been exposing himself to lots and lots of conversations about immigration. And doing a lot
