Over the weekend there was a minor brouhaha that emerged over AirBnB. For those of you who might have missed it, AirBnB is a hot start-up that lets you rent rooms in people’s homes as if they were hotels. The founders have decided that this would be a good time to cash out a little. There’s obviously nothing wrong with that – reaping the rewards is part of why we invest in our work. However, how they’ve chosen to go about it leaves a lot to be desired and that’s today’s thought.
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The New Year
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Last night marked the start of the Jewish New Year. I didn’t go down to Times Square to see if they were dropping a giant knish at the stroke of sundown – probably not. L’Shana Tova – a happy and healthy New Year to all of you.
One of the things Jews do over the next 10 days (or at least are supposed to do) is to reflect on the year gone by and think about where it took you on life’s journey. It’s not really as much about looking back in my mind as it is about looking forward. Oh sure, one is supposed to think about where one strayed from life’s path in terms of dealing with other humans and human codes of conduct. We get a day of fasting next week to get that sorted out. But it’s also a time to think about a fresh start. Which, of course, promoted a business thought. Continue reading
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Babel
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I’m sorry I didn’t get a post up yesterday. The day sort of got away from me due to a death in the family. Fortunately, it was an old PC and not a person. Unfortunately, it was the one serving as the host for all the printing on my network. No big deal, right? Install the printer on another PC on the network and all is well. Well, not so much.
The deceased machine ran an old version of Windows – the new one runs XP (which is now an old version of Windows…). While all the Windows machines on the net can print without issue, the MacBook that’s my primary computer can’t. Oh sure – it sees the printer, it spools to the printer, but something seems to get lost in the translation since the printer just pauses and stays there. Which of course got me thinking about business. Continue reading
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