Brandon Muramatsu

muraPOI: October 10, 2011

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Two great quotes from Fast Company to start things off:

“Fortran: Allowing people to code in English and algebra rather than zeros and one…Today, it is used by scientists to selectively breed chickens.” …now I knew learning Fortran in college would be useful…to someone…

–IBM Innovate by Rachel Z. Arndt, Fast Company, June 2011

“New hires perform better when they bring a former colleague with them, says Harvard associate professor Boris Gorysberg, who has studied the firm hopping of Wall Street analysts.”

–The World’s Greatest Chemistry Experiment by Chuck Salter, Fast Company, May 2011

And now for the POI. Written twice now, WordPress autosave fail coupled with a Safari barfup.

  • The Eight Pillars of Innovation: mission, think big/start small, iterate, look everywhere, share everything, imagine + data, platform, fail and learn.

    What’s different is that, even as we dream up what’s next, we face the classic innovator’s dilemma: should we invest in brand new products, or should we improve existing ones? We believe in doing both, and learning while we do it.

    — Susan Wojcicki, Google

    (by way of Esther Wojcicki, Google+, October 1, 2011)

  • 22 Essential Tools for Testing Your Website’s Usability: Ignore the poor usability of the Mashable article by Jacob Gube, if you delve deep enough, the sites he links to are trés useful.

    (StartupDigest Design, October 5, 2011)

  • The University of Wherever: OpEd piece by Bill Keller. But, will we innovate?

    (Multiple sources including my Google Alert and Startup Digest EdTech, October 7, 2011)

  • After A Cancelled Keynote, Benioff Strikes Back; Talks Future Of The Cloud (From A Restaurant): Brilliant move by one of the two kids, but really they’re just kids on a playground trying to be bullies.

    (TechCrunch, October 5, 2011)

  • Reflections on Steve Jobs: My tribute to Steve Jobs posted on the occasion of his passing. Stay Foolish. Stay Hungry.
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