Western companies and governments will not be the ones to develop the bulk of the new content. The best solutions will be hyper local, designed and supported by people with intimate knowledge of the immediate environment.
— The New Digital Age - p.180
With an adaptive organization, it is hard for your competitors or newer startups to disrupt you as you are constantly disrupting yourself and evolving.
Tags: org innovation
67. You have to have great execution—far more people have good ideas than are willing to roll up their sleeves and get shit done.
I have explained why is so many times that my hair has gone grey, it’s true my hair is now grey because of this.
— Wonderful early review of Elixir (and insight into his Erlang frustrations) by the father of Erlang http://joearms.github.io/2013/05/31/a-week-with-elixir.html

1 human genome = approx 0.5TB of data - WOW

Golang - handling a non returning channel

Simple and effective

select {
    case <-chanToReturn:
      // Do work
    case <- time.After(5 * time.Second):
      // out of time so carry on
    }
Tags: golang
Eric Schmidt on stage

Eric Schmidt on stage

Don’t be scared of competitors…just go out and keep inventing
— Eric Schmidt