Leonardo’s To-Do List looks like an early draft of a GTD list.
The Real Reason Netflix Stock Tanked – Rafi Mohammed – Harvard Business Review
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Rafi Mohammed wrote an excellent article about Netflix, pricing, customer requirements, and shareholder concerns on the HBR Blog describing The Real Reason Netflix Stock Tanked .
Netflix had many options as they looked at raising prices. Mr. Mohammed argues the one option they correctly took off the table was to increase their cost structure and not ask customers to pay for this. However, they could have structured their offerings in a way that allowed customers to opt in if they wanted the additional features versus forcing them to opt out (leave the service, which 3% have decided to do) if they do not.
If the results of a 20-60% price increase is losing 3% of your customers, the financial result of that is pretty nice. Even with Netflix taking it on the chin with their communication strategy, none of this describes why shareholders have left the stock in droves. I let you read what Mr. Mohammed has to say about that.
Chad Evans Knocks it Out of the Park at the iPad Launch
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Most of us like to name drop, at least a little. And so it is with great interest that we follow the careers of former colleagues. Here is Chad Evans, taking one deep at the iPad launch. Watch him here.
Eye candy for the soul
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Want to spend a few joyful moments playing around with an eye-popping online toy. Head over to dtoy_vs_byokal and let your creative juices flow. Maybe I will find a way to place a dtoy widget on this site.
Fun with photos.
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Ran across a few places to have some fun late one night last week and thought others would find some joy in this as well.
Pikipimp is a good place to start and this may get your attention.
Another example is Dave Cohen who was the target of 5280Angel.
Building the 21st century education system
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Are our schools prepared for the challenges our kids will face this century? This decade? Alvin Toffler suggest our schools were built to prepare the rural American child for the industrial revolution. Get to work on time, enjoy repetitive tasks and essentially fall in line. Agree? Perhaps we have advanced somewhat since the late 1800′s and this seems all too familar to much of the work I recall from oh so many years ago.
Today, when I see our dedicated, hardworking teachers struggle to escape from the bonds of top down driven curriculm, I think there must be a better way.  Here is one alternative.
Future School
You’re talking about customizing the educational experience.
“Exactly. Any form of diversity that we can introduce into the schools is a plus. Today, we have a big controversy about all the charter schools that are springing up. The school system people hate them because they’re taking money from them. I say we should radically multiply charter schools, because they begin to provide a degree of diversity in the system that has not been present. Diversify the system.
In our book Revolutionary Wealth, we play a game. We say, imagine that you’re a policeman, and you’ve got a radar gun, and you’re measuring the speed of cars going by. Each car represents an American institution. The first one car is going by at 100 miles an hour. It’s called business. Businesses have to change at 100 miles an hour because if they don’t, they die. Competition just puts them out of the game. So they’re traveling very, very fast. Then comes another car. And it’s going at 10 miles an hour. That’s the public education system. Schools are supposed to be preparing kids for the business world of tomorrow, to take jobs, to make our economy functional. The schools are changing, if anything, at 10 miles an hour. So, how do you match an economy that requires 100 miles an hour with an institution like public education? A system that changes, if at all, at 10 miles an hour?”
