General Business Structure
I keep trying to wrap my head around what a complete business structure looks like. Continue reading
I keep trying to wrap my head around what a complete business structure looks like. Continue reading
When I first started engaging the topic of the “Internet of Things” I realized I needed a mental model for talking about its pieces and parts. In order to develop this model I asked myself the first and likely the most obvious question, “What is a ‘Thing’?”. This, of course, … Continue reading
See Current and Future Cost of Photovoltaics Or Google “Fraunhofer solar future”. This is a hefty report by a very German organization i.e. they spent a year convening groups of experts in every aspect of solar and hammering all the aspects of death. Takeaways- though it’s pretty easy to read Solar power … Continue reading
I read this introduction to the book The Battle for God, By Karen Armstrong, and thought it was very insightful. It appears to be taking a balanced historical view of the causes of religious fundamentalism. [iframe style=”width:120px;height:240px;” marginwidth=”0″ marginheight=”0″ scrolling=”no” frameborder=”0″ align=”right” src=”//ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&OneJS=1&Operation=GetAdHtml&MarketPlace=US&source=ss&ref=ss_til&ad_type=product_link&tracking_id=hawksprphotog-20&marketplace=amazon®ion=US&placement=0345391691&asins=0345391691&linkId=WE2KJZC43LARAYNA&show_border=true&link_opens_in_new_window=true”]What I thought was particularly interesting was the … Continue reading
Here’s an assertion worth testing… Any node in an IoT network that is unable to share some aspect of its state with an adjacent node is effectively a display and as such is computationally uninteresting. Note that these “displays” are very interesting in how they interact with the real world … Continue reading
A mid-day walk on the last day of February at Snag Boat Bend, near Peoria. [iframe src=”https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/embed?mid=zBmavVDizF3Y.kd3NQmLg2M6A” width=”640″ height=”480″] [iframe style=”width:120px;height:240px;” align=”right” marginwidth=”0″ marginheight=”0″ scrolling=”no” frameborder=”0″ src=”//ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&OneJS=1&Operation=GetAdHtml&MarketPlace=US&source=ss&ref=ss_til&ad_type=product_link&tracking_id=hawksprphotog-20&marketplace=amazon®ion=US&placement=0881928666&asins=0881928666&linkId=C4KH4JK2XHQZ6VRL&show_border=true&link_opens_in_new_window=true”] Continue reading
This was probably obvious to the most casual observer, but it took me awhile to get it. An Internet of Things is a non-uniform cellular automaton. I think we’re in for a wild ride folks. More later. Continue reading
Here are some highlights from a road trip that I took with my friends Ian and Emma while visiting the U.K. a couple of weeks ago. [iframe style=”width:120px;height:240px;” align=right marginwidth=”0″ marginheight=”0″ scrolling=”no” frameborder=”0″ src=”//ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&OneJS=1&Operation=GetAdHtml&MarketPlace=US&source=ss&ref=ss_til&ad_type=product_link&tracking_id=hawksprphotog-20&marketplace=amazon®ion=US&placement=B008PDC41M&asins=B008PDC41M&linkId=EQVONOWG5VXSZPOZ&show_border=true&link_opens_in_new_window=true”] Continue reading
I didn’t get a chance to do a lot of sightseeing but I did get a few shots around London while I was there. On Friday, in particular, I was fortunate enough to catch the changing of the guard. It was a complete coincidence. Continue reading
Pondering entrepreneuring it seems like there’s a difference in approach available to startups and established enterprises. Continue reading