"We aren’t selecting individual tools any more. We choose from a small selection of beautiful unified tool boxes. If you want Gmail, get the Google tool box including a Google+ profile you never asked for and personalized search results that shape your picture of the world. Some fear that this will lead to incompatible online service ecosystems: Separate world wide webs owned by big companies."
— Neubertify • Why I stopped using Gmail
"So the next time you read or hear a report with a singular root cause, alarms should go off in your head. In the same way that you shouldn’t ever have root cause “human error”, if you only have a single root cause, you haven’t dug deep enough."
— Each necessary, but only jointly sufficient
"the average lifespan of a Fortune 500 company is now 15 years, according to Cisco’s John Chambers"
— The temporary, pop-up corporation « BuzzMachine
"The decisions we make today in terms of the next action we engage in is determine by time and attention available. Whereby attention is a combination of energy and priority. Priorities are either imposed on us, but more often they are also a choice we make: “What is important to me?"
— A Fresh Take on Contexts | Simplicity Is Bliss