Wired has an extremely insightful article on an emerging trend that they refer to as the “Good Enough Revolution” or “MP3 Effect,” a shift in consumer thinking that favors ease of use, continuous availability and low price over different manifestations of quality.
Within the marketplace, this paradigm has been extremely successful at reaching the widest possible [...]
Filed under: News, Technology on September 2nd, 2009 @ 2:10 pm
Tagged with: consumer, effective, Good Enough Revolution, insights, markets, MP3 effect, Pareto Principle, product, quality, service, success, Technology, thought, trends
I just finished reading an op-ed piece in the New York Times that was written by New York University School of Business Professor Eric Dinallo and Venture Capital managing director Alan Patricof. The piece revolves around pending legislation in the Senate that seeks to further regulate the body of financial instruments available to private pools [...]
Filed under: Business, News on August 31st, 2009 @ 4:50 pm
Tagged with: Business, fundamental, government, innovation, job growth, legislation, private sector, SEC, Senate, thought, venture capital
In this week’s New York Times magazine, the lead story concerns the battle for women’s rights in this century. While there’s little argument that countries in the first world have made huge leaps in the during that time, bringing the franchise to millions of women, expanding the number of women in the work force, and [...]
Filed under: Community, News, Philanthropy on August 19th, 2009 @ 4:37 pm
Tagged with: education, equality, funding, progress, thought, women's education, women's rights
I’ve been highlighting some of thoughts from around the web on topics ranging from business and philanthropy to art and society. I hope that by sharing these insights, I’m contributing to the pool of knowledge that is freely accessible to everyone online and creating an environment for discussion. To that end, I’ve recently participated in [...]
Filed under: Arts & Culture, News on July 31st, 2009 @ 11:14 am
Tagged with: art, discussion, forum, insights, interview, knowledge, opportunity, philanthropist, philanthropy, sharing, The Importance of Art, thought, video, web
‘Younger than Moses: Idle Worship’ is an art exhibit featuring 22 artists in New York.
As part of the European Project FP7 research called “Integrated System for Transport Infastructures Surveillance and Monitoring by Electromagnetic Sensing,” a team of researchers had been gathered from the countries of Israel, Italy, France, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland and Romania.