Comments on: Social Media: who gets it, and why or why not?

By: Davin Greenwell

Davin Greenwell — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:13:02 +0000

PS: You need an avatar!

By: Davin Greenwell

Davin Greenwell — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:12:40 +0000

I think that book is likely Outliers and it’s rice paddies in China that they were referring to. I’m still reading that part and waiting for Gladwell to tie the rice paddies together with the asian numbering system. There is something about 3000 hours a year as well. Imagine being able to do 1 thing for 3000 hours a year? You BETTER be good at it by the end of that!

By: admin

admin — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:13:17 +0000

I like what Fredrick Pohl and Arther C Clarke quoted in a book I read recently. Something about the best mathematician in the world would have been in a paddy harvesting rice if the barriers to entry (for him, to education) hadn’t been as low as the government of India had made them.

By: Davin Greenwell

Davin Greenwell — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:44:13 +0000

There’s a lot to be said for low barriers to entry. That changes who will be on it, what kind of connections you make and what relevance they have to the world outside of technology.