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“I wrote a piece for the July/August issue of Corporate Dealmaker. The magazine did eight pages on business books and their impact on the M&A industry. Here is my contribution where I discuss books that should be on every executive’s reading list”
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a professor of psychology at University of California Davis named Dean Simonton has conducted extensive research on age and creativity across many other fields, including science, literature, music, chess, film, politics, and military combat.
Marc Andreessen continues to impress me, this time as a blogger. He writes today about how age relates to creativity, derived from an ongoing debate about how age relates to entrepreneurship. Marc provides a study by Dean Simonton covering his life’s work on the subject of age and creativity. The study by Dr Simonton is nothing short of profound and Marc even takes the time to break the study down into understandable chunks for us knuckle draggers.
This is a must read post. I’m not going to try and steal Marc Andreessen’s thunder just go and read his post.
This in my experience is a very accurate description of Silicon Valley via The New York Times:
Mr. Hettig, the estate planning lawyer, sums it up for many: “We’re in such a rarefied environment,” he said, “people here lose perspective on what the rest of the world looks like.”
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Moira started BioTech Nation rather unexpectedly in the spring of 2004 and now, she’s written a book about her experience called Welcome to Biotech Nation: My Unexpected Odyssey into the Land of Small Molecules, Lean Genes, and Big Ideas
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13 great rules for speeding up your website. These are great and can have quite an impact if done correctly.
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For well over a year now we’ve seen reports and announcements from a major industry analyst firms and others tracking the movement of Web 2.0 ideas into the enterprise.(tags: web20 enterprise)
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This is by far the most useful excel tip I have seen in years.
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This is home of the Metadata Repository project (MDR). MDR implements the OMG’s MOF (Meta Object Facility) standard based metadata repository and itegrates it into the NetBeans Tools Platform.
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So, you’ve been hearing about XMI and would like to base your company’s metadata practice on open standards. But the entrance price of the major MOF-compliant repositories is too steep? And you have access to a talented Java software engineer? Read on…
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SparkMaker is an add-in for Microsoft® Office that creates sparklines (mini-graphs) to visualize numerical data in dashboards, spreadsheets, reports and presentations created with Excel®, Word® and PowerPoint®. SparkMaker 4 uses a new “minimized-click
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MicroCharts, winner of the BI Network’s 2006 Data Visualization Competition, enhances Excel, OLAP and standard reporting with powerful, compact visualizations such as sparklines, bullet graphs and other in-cell charts.
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We received an enthusiastic response to our post on in-cell bar graphs in Excel. The community quickly explored every edge case. I want to highlight some of the great ideas raised.
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MogileFS is our open source distributed filesystem.
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An interesting tool for information mapping
Tom The Architect 