February 2008
23 posts
“Wanna-be entrepreneurs focus way too much on trying to find the very best idea...”
– Inc.
“The best leaders are not the “follow me over the hill” type. Rather,...”
– Leadership, by Bill George More on Harvard Working Knowledge
“Ask yourself these questions:
• What unmet outside customer needs can and...”
– Drucker’s Guide to the 21st Century Read more in this very inspirational document: ChangeThis :: The Silent Revolution: Peter Drucker’s Voice Still Resonates
“Economists call this “nominal price rigidity.” My salary is not...”
– From Slate.com: WHY IT’S SO HARD FOR COMPANIES TO RAISE PRICES.
The interdependent components of strategy →
"The Disney Way" oh, how I hate thee, as a book,... →
5 links—retail-saturation, RFID's costs, elements... →
Books as research-material for a blog? A... →
Why luxury is not the answer to cinemas' problems →
Some final notes about IKEA's business →
IKEA's global expansion part II - time-line &... →
Last book: Ikea's 11 secrets… next book: The... →
5 links - cool vs. tech, touch-screens, women,... →
Hot or Not commercials - Axe's "Chocolate Man" vs.... →
Franchising - faux or real entrepreneurship? →
My relationship with story-telling - a short... →
Cracking impregnable fortresses - on the art of... →
Building lifestyle-brands and the role that the... →
An XXL wrap-up - Months 3-6 on Food 'n' Retail →
Mapping the food-industry V.1 →
What's the biggest pain in your industry II -... →
Internal (store-)competition - the games... →
Lowest common denominators - the key to simple... →
January 2008
32 posts
Lifestyle-products - the costs of educating a... →
The service-paradox - on self-service and... →
Building up the research-library for this blog... →
How being in the right place at the right time... →
Why are Fitness-studios so mean? →
What's the greatest pain of an industry? →
“If you love good interface design you’d hate almost anything...”
– Interfacing as humanly as possible | MetaFilter
Am I a Nihilist?
I am one in sociological matters. Social systems are like people. The older they get, the less they change. The only thing that can happen is that they die or regenerate, most often through war. It’s up to people to pick the side they want to be on, but that often requires geographical & cultural relocation, and is not easy.
Disagree? Mail vincent.vanwylick at Google-mail.
(Spawned by...
“Which is a problem, because feature matrices suck. A feature matrix says: “Here...”
– Charles Miller
“People actually call it “black box trading,” because sometimes you don’t even...”
– Interview with a Hedge Fund Manager
“…I think that in the end the way that you make a ton of money is calling...”
– Interview with a Hedge Fund Manager
"People can't be evacuated…"
“At least not in the sense that you mean. A building can be evacuated, but to evacuate people means: to give them an enema.” Brilliant! From The Wire, season 5, episode 1.
“Always bet against the Internet!”
– Cabel Sasser (Panic software)
“A person like me who believes in the tradition of a discipline in journalism can...”
– Daniel Schorr
“One of the sad things about contemporary journalism is that it actually matters...”
– David Simon Says
“• Good design is innovative.
• Good design makes a product useful.
• Good...”
– Dieter Rams’ 10 principles for good design:
“The problem with money, is that it sets up its own paradox: Hard work may yield...”
– How Can America’s Rich Teach Their Children the Value of a Dollar? — New York Magazine
Stuff I learned from drawing… so far →
“I’m a pretty lazy person, and am prepared to work quite hard in order to avoid...”
– Martin Fowler
Pretty much the way I feel about it. (via 37signals)
“Gephyrophobia: An abnormal and persistent fear of crossing bridges.”
– No idea this “fear” existed, though it does make sense on some level. I would call it Acrophobia - the fear of heights. My father has a fear of elevators, which I would call a form of claustrophobia (via Kottke).
Thesis update + 5 links →