This is brilliant. And a similar sentiment to my previous post, though much more humorously communicated.

One such pattern I noticed five years ago or so was that companies were having a harder time making money from software. Not a hard time, precisely – Microsoft and others were effectively still printing money through the up-front sale of bits – but harder. Traditional software companies were facing stiff competition from SaaS-players and open source.

I had the opportunity to read Steve’s latest book wihle he was putting the finishing touches on it. Like his previous book, The New Kingmakers, this is a thought-provoking must-read for those of us in the software industry.

Feel free to replace “design” with “develop” if that’s your agency’s thing. It’s all the same, no matter what you’re producing.

Well said.

I agree with many of Steve’s points here, but I’ve had much better luck with my battery life. I’m getting 7-8+ hours easily on a charge – perhaps because he got the special order 1.3GHz model while I schlump along with the 1.2 model.

My MacBook Pro is now my desk machine and I use it for my photography workflow. Just about everything else is done on my MacBook. I really like this little guy.

Some very good arguments here in favor of dashes, which was already my preference.

These are very useful/practical (for those of you who have actually received the watch you ordered).

I generally agree with Marco’s concept here. However coming from a 2012 MacBook Pro, I’m pretty thrilled at the battery life I am getting from my new MacBook.

Thanks to John for writing the canonical OS X reviews for so long. It sometimes took me weeks to finish them but I always learned things that helped me get more out of my tools. I look forward to hearing his thoughts on the next OS version on ATP.

Everything is go for WordCamp Denver this coming June – get your tickets, apply to speak, or become a sponsor.

I am happily not involved in organizing this one. My thanks to all the kind, generous, and good looking people who have shouldered that responsibility.

An interesting Q&A session with the fellow who is testing the Malcolm Gladwell 10,000 hours posit by learning how to golf. I was interested to see he’s a 3 handicap now, about halfway through his journey.

Indeed, I would argue that what makes Twitter the company valuable is not Twitter the app or 140 characters or @names or anything else having to do with the product: rather, it’s the interest graph that is nearly priceless.

This is a really interesting way to look at Twitter as a business: based on who I follow, searches I do, etc., they know what topics I’m interested in and am willing to spend time on. I agree that this type of “interest” data should be incredibly valuable as it’s own product.

I didn’t implement this at Crowd Favorite and, retrospectively, I wish I had. Not having to worry about this at all anymore is a definite plus to being back on my own.