Thursday, November 13, 2003

Phil Windley on Segway Innovation (And a great quote!) Some intriguing insights into the development of the Segway. I especially like the quote at the end of the post: "David spent a fair amount of time talking about Segway's cultural principals. I thought they were good advice for an engineering team. Go fast. Mario Andretti said "If you feel like you're in control, you're not going fast enough." Expect conflict. The only way to truly tolerate design failure is to do it fast and early. Expect to fail. Be tough on issues, easy on people. Cross-functional conflict must happen early to work out the right ideas. Have fun. Let people be different. Ideation people vs. execution people. (Innovation vs. delivery) Hire the best. Jeff Bezo's said "A's hire A's; B's hire C's; C's hire D's" Be humble as an individual; be proud as a team. Innovation is hard. You spend a lot of time out of your comfort zone." 8:27:22 PM  >  trackback []   comment []

An argument in favor of client side aggregators. There's been some discussion on and off about the raison-d'etre of client side aggregators. Given the fact that I've spent a few hours designing an building what is essentially a new kind of client side aggregator, it's something I've given some thought to. Particularly because I'm a strong proponent of Web-based, server-side User Interfaces. So, this comment from Dave Winer was welcome, where he reminds us that about how cool enclosures can be. And if I am not mistaken, smart treatment of enclosures would be an argument in favor of client-side aggregators. 8:16:54 PM  >  trackback []   comment []