Patents Tell a Story
This post is not about protecting intellectual property; it is about business intelligence. I probably would not be writing this post but for an article in IEEE Spectrum (Feb 2021): The Careful Engineering of Facebook’s Filter Bubble. It provides a great example of how you can use a company’s patent portfolio to develop a surprisingly […]
Running a Business by the Numbers– NOT
I was reading the Wall Street Journal earlier today and came across an article titled: UPS Boss Preaches the Power of No— https://www.wsj.com/articles/ups-boss-preaches-the-power-of-no-11614335402?mod=searchresults_pos1&page=1. It elicited a visceral response from me. While I understand and appreciate the need to manage the numbers, the message is wrong. Running a business strictly by the numbers does not account […]
Skills that Matter
To paraphrase Gilbert and Sullivan: you want (you, your child or your protégé?) to be the “very model of a modern Major-General”. That song, no kidding, outlines some of the knowledge and skills it takes to thrive in our modern world. Listen to the song sometime; it holds up quite well. I will never be […]
The Problem with Technology Monopolies
I recently came across a working paper published by the Becker Friedman Institute titled Kill Zone– https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3555915 . This paper caused me considerable pain—it forced me to consider several challenging areas that I had avoided. One of them (the subject of this post) is the monopoly status of social media companies, especially Facebook. First, let’s […]
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