This is a pretty amazing chart that shows how fast things move in the mobile world. In 7 short years. The OS map of the mobile world in 200 is incredibly different from that of 2016 (and much less diverse).
(via analyticisms)
Source: statista.com
Back in the day when the British had a penchant for conquering the world, they ran into a little problem on the subcontinent; cobras. Turns out there were a hell of a lot of the buggers wandering around India and it also turned out that they were rather venomous which didn’t sit well with the colonials. Ingenious as the British were, they decided to offer the citizens a bounty – you hand in dead cobras that would otherwise have bitten some poor imperialist and you get some cash. Problem solved.
Unfortunately, the enterprising locals saw things differently and interpreted the “cash for cobras” scheme as a damn good reason to start breeding serpents and raking in the dollars. Having now seen the flaw in their original logical, the poms quickly scrapped the scheme meaning no more snake bounty. Naturally the only thing for the locals to do with their now worthless cobras was to set them free so that they may seek out a nice cosy British settlement somewhere.
This became known as the Cobra Effect or in other words, a solution to a problem that actually makes the whole thing a lot worse. Here’s a modern day implementation of the Cobra Effect as it relates to the ability to paste your password into a login field:
As the world becomes increasingly interconnected, both economically and socially, technology adoption remains one of the defining factors in human progress. To that end, there has been a noticeable rise over the past two years in the percentage of people in the emerging and developing nations surveyed by Pew Research Center who say that they use the internet and own a smartphone.
Smartphone Ownership and Internet Usage Continues to Climb in Emerging Economies
Stage 1: “I’ve never heard of that company.”
Stage 2: “Yes I’ve heard of them, but we’re not seeing them in any deals.”
Stage 3: “They’re beginning to show up in deals, but they’re getting killed.”
Stage 4: “They’re growing, but it’s all small deals and toy apps, they don’t get the enterprise.”
Stage 5: “Here’s how we compete against them in the enterprise.”
How incumbants talk about disruptors.
Source: redmonk.com
During the period that we were actively selling both perpetual and cloud versions, our finance team did an analysis and found it would cost us twice as much to offer perpetual and subscription products side by side. That was not sustainable. Development on the subscription-based product was generating new features and functionality about every month or every quarter. It no longer made sense to hold back all those innovations only to bundle them into the packaged product a year later.
Adobe on the cost structure of being an on-premises and SaaS company at the same time.
Source: mckinsey.com
On Conferencing While Introverted
Introverts often listen more than they talk in conversations, and the less energy they have, the more quiet they’re likely to get.
Talks specifically about how conferences (though enjoyable) can really wring out an introvert. True stories that translate right back to the rest of our daily lives. (Where “our” is the rest of us introverts.)
Also good for those of us who are not.
Source: beero.ps
Best Practices suck
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