"Conventional wisdom says that to beat your competitors, you need to one- up them. If they have four features, you need five (or fifteen, or twenty- five). If they’re spending $20,000, you need to spend $30,000. If they have fifty employees, you need a hundred.
This sort of one-upping, Cold War mentality is a dead end. When you get suckered into an arms race, you wind up in a never-ending battle that costs you massive amounts of money, time, and drive. And it forces you to constantly be on the defensive, too. Defensive companies can’t think ahead; they can only think behind. They don’t lead; they follow."
— excerpt from REWORK, by Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson
This is the one I won’t let my kids drive. Or touch. Or take the silk cover off of.
Or, basically, know about.
Anyone remember my February post about bicycle shootout-chases? This is part 2. I’m on to a meme here, I bet.
"Someone has it backwards — it is HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, and H.264 (all supported by the iPhone and iPad) that are open and standard, while Adobe’s Flash is closed and proprietary."
— Trudy Miller, Apple spokeswoman
"Google just found its nemesis. Instead of targeting people based on their click behavior or search behavior, [Facebook] is targeting based on their relationship to people and to brands and content."
— Ian Schafer, CEO of Deep Focus
“Officer, I spent the whole easter weekend delving into CI guidelines, and then I just snapped…”
