Comments Off on Bandwidth Prices Drop 90% Every 5 Years?

Wow!  Here’s an interesting chart from drpeering.net, showing the decline in internet transit (bandwidth) prices over the past two decades. Read more »

Comments Off on EOQ: End of Quarter Specials

I’m always intrigued to hear about remarkable special pricing offered by some vendors’ sales teams in order to report new business for the current quarter or the current fiscal year.

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Comments Off on Thinking, Fast and Slow

Wow. I just realized that I’ve been reading one book for more than a year, and I’m still not even half-done.

The book is Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking, Fast and Slow. Of course, I’ve read dozens of other books during this time.

Don’t get me wrong — it’s a really good, really interesting book — but it constantly forces me to think, and sends my brain into a tailspin of distraction. Read more »

Comments Off on “The [Charlie Hebdo] murderers cannot be allowed for a single moment to think that their strategy can succeed.”

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Comments Off on Holiday Greetings via Email: No! (2014)

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I just read a great article which provided a very accurate and consise summary of issues to consider when planning a CPQ (Configure-Price-Quote) solution. The article was written by Mark Bishop and shared by Shane Lay, both from CloudSense. Read more »

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Comments Off on Mobile App Permissions

The company I work for recently released a free “Network Tools” mobile app for Android and iOS phones and tablets, and I was surprised at early reviews mentioning that we didn’t ask for unnecessary or intrusive permissions (one even praised us for “not spying”).

This confused me, until I examined many competing apps. (Disclaimer: this is my personal observation, not on behalf of my employer.) Read more »

Comments Off on Game-Changer and Liars & Outliers

I ordered about 20 books from Amazon last month; two are unexpectedly similar:  David McAdams’ Game-Changer: Game Theory and the Art of Transforming Strategic Situations (2014), and Bruce Schneier’s Liars & Outliers: Enabling the Trust that Society Needs to Thrive (2012).

Both discuss “Game Theory” at some length, and both do it in a way that I found engaging and understandable.  Alas, Game-Changer ultimately disappointed me, as the author shared some very flawed example suggestions in the latter half of the book.  I haven’t yet finished Liars & Outliers, as I became distracted by some other business books.