Kari Silvennoinen shared a blog entry on Google Reader Aug 9, 2011
Stimulus thinking: Adventures in tea-party cognitive dissonance | The Economist
Now, an aircraft carrier costs about $9 billion. The prospect of someone in the government trying to design a programme that could spend $9 billion teaching Chinese prostitutes how... more »Kari Silvennoinen shared a blog entry on Google Reader Aug 8, 2011
Kari Silvennoinen posted a blog entry Aug 7, 2011
Combating Copycats
I draw some parallels between Groupon and Starbucks, both companies I have some sympathy for, but which opened up a market that soon got saturated by lots of copycats. Arguably, Starbucks’ market-pioneering is restricted to the US and in Europe we certainly don’t consider it particularly novel... more »
Kari Silvennoinen posted a blog entry Aug 6, 2011
The Burden of a Title
Choosing a title for a piece of writing can be nearly as oppressive as choosing a title for a considerable portion of your life, say a job. I’m in a mindset, for some time now actually, where I feel like I can say that I don’t like the name Tech It Easy; it does not describe what I write about... more »

