I'm a technologist at heart with a passion for emerging products and early stage companies.  Simple timing put me in the right place at the right time and gave me several opportunities to shape the Internet during its early days.  My education came via hands-on product development and side-by-side work with some of the most innovative minds in software.  

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Monday
11May2009

Ever cheaper labor, ever faster machines

Seth Godin's speech from the Feb 2009 TED talks in Long Beach.

Mass marketing requires hypnotizing the masses and works for average ideas and its not working anymore. Everyone thought that if you could buy enough advertising you could win.

Factories to tribes. You can connect to people that can change our world, align large numbers of people because they want to connect.

Find something worth changing and assemble a tribe.

You really have to watch this.

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