Month: August 2012
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How to make a DC universe movie franchise
Marvel has always been my favorite of the two major comic book producers, and I think part of the reason for it’s success at the theaters has been related to why I liked them best – their characters and stories had more gray areas than DC’s “lawful good” pantheon – post Frank Miller Batman not…
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An unsolicted rant about solution selling
begin rant Solution selling is garbage… the entire premise that links the occasionally true assertion that “people don’t buy products, they buy solutions to business problems” with the notion that you can pre-package solutions to those business problems and build a marketing campaign around them is absurd. People are the cause of the aforementioned business…
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Godelian origins of Google’s strategy?
Cheat to win. That is the message I got from frequent readings of Kurt Godel’s essay “On Formerly Undecidable Propositions of Principia Mathmatica and Related Systems” over the four years spanning from my junior year in college until the end of my first post-graduate job. Cheat to win, or more accurately, transcend the system to…
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identity, privacy, and technology
Let us agree up front that we (society) suck at all three. Now, what do we do about it? Identity is mostly about accountability and a little bit about trust and non-repudiation. Accountability for what you do is a foundation of a civil society, and without it we don’t really function very well. Knowing who…
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Cookies, certificates, namespaces, and data
I’d like an operating system that lets me control cookies the way it lets me control certificates. What this means is that I want a little hacker window open on the side of my browser that shows me every cookie being requested by a site, every cookie being given to me by a site, and…