Category Archives: Good reads
Inspired and interesting text online … things worth reading.
Wise words
A defensive move
4 Reasons Google Bought Waze
Mobile monster
China added 30 mil new subs in Q1 … incredible!
http://www.ericsson.com/res/docs/2013/ericsson-mobility-report-june-2013.pdf
Video is going to be almost half the traffic running over mobile networks by 2018 …
The numbers never lie
Google Says It Can Predict Which Films Will Be Huge Box-Office Hits
http://www.businessinsider.com/google-study-can-predict-success-of-movies-2013-6
The power of education, or lack of it …
http://techcrunch.com/2013/06/01/after-your-job-is-gone/
“Trouble is, our societies and economies are built around the assumption of mass employment, and we’ll need some pretty wrenching adjustments to that paradigm to deal with the changes to come.”
“Do you believe education will save you, and/or your children? Sorry. Not all of the well-educated will find good jobs; increasingly, some won’t find jobs at all. Meanwhile, the cost of higher education keeps climbing higher and higher. Peter Thiel is already arguing that “we’re in a bubble and it’s not the Internet. It’s higher education.” .. It’s possible that universities will start to seem almost like casinos: great for the winners, but you’d actually be better off not going at all than paying to go and failing to win.”
Mobile is eating the World
Information overload, but it’s all good …
http://onstartups.com/tabid/3339/bid/9659/Angel-Investor-Non-Admissons-10-Things-They-Won-t-Say.aspx
“I’m in it to mostly have fun. If I wanted to do unpleasant work, I’d have my own start-up.”
