Sorkin’s major error was to paint Facebook as a great idea, rather than as a great product.
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The only company on Gartner’s list of 25 companies that turns over its product faster [than Apple] is McDonald’s, which is not exactly in the electronics business. […] a typical company in manufacturing might do 8 inventory turns. Samsung does 17. Dell, which practically invented hardcore electronics supply chain management, does 36. Apple is doing 74!
This man was a trucker for 28 years. During that time, the left side of his face routinely received more sunlight than the right, leaving it looking very different. (via The Effect of Sun On A Face)
On the panel were assembled the senior faculty of the MIT Media Lab, including such luminaries as Marvin Minsky. At one point they were fielding questions, when a young man stood up and said, rather indignantly: “You people are dangerous. Thanks to folks like you, one day we will all be tracked — our identity, our whereabouts — and there will no longer be any privacy.”
Marvin responded by saying, rather dryly, “We have gathered together some of the best minds of of the world to study media technology. You are very welcome, if you like, to gather minds together for the purpose of studying anti-media technology.”
Having a large number of users and the inability to monetize them is a non-existent problem.
Memo to Rio 20: ‘green economy’ doesn’t mean monetising nature | Global development | guardian.co.uk:
The co-option of the term green economy to mean commodifying and marketising nature
