{"id":1187,"date":"2012-11-23T14:17:04","date_gmt":"2012-11-23T14:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adendavies.com\/?p=1187"},"modified":"2012-11-23T14:17:04","modified_gmt":"2012-11-23T14:17:04","slug":"friday-reading-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adendavies.co.uk\/?p=1187","title":{"rendered":"Friday Reading #1"},"content":{"rendered":"

I would like to think of this as an innovative reimagning of\u00a0Martin Belam’s Friday Reading posts<\/a>\u00a0but as you can see it is a blatant copy. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery etc. Anyway, I am using this as a way to get back into the habit of more regular writing and also a way of focusing on the links I habitually collect but sometimes neglect i.e. never get around to reading.<\/p>\n

So here goes Aden’s Friday Reading List #1. A collection of long(ish) form links on technology, innovation, banking and anything else I deem interesting enough to include. These links are\u00a0also available in a handy readlist<\/a>\u00a0that you can send to your favourite digital reading device.<\/p>\n

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‘How to get startup ideas’<\/a><\/p>\n

‘Paul Buchheit says that people at the leading edge of a rapidly changing field “live in the future.” Combine that with Pirsig and you get:\u00a0Live in the future, then build what’s missing.<\/strong>‘<\/p>\n

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‘Why Your Company Needs A Full-Time, Idea-Killing Chief Dissent Officer’<\/a><\/p>\n

‘To paraphrase the scientist Jacob Bronowski, no society or organization died from this kind of dissent, but plenty perish from conformity.\u00a0Every company could use their own dedicated objectionists<\/strong>–confidently criticizing what others didn\u2019t feel empowered enough to speak up about.’<\/p>\n

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”How To Disrupt Yourself’<\/a><\/p>\n

‘Most companies have built up significant barriers to innovation. \u00a0Culture, strategy, internal processes and the needs of existing customers all conspire to stave off ideas about doing things differently. \u00a0Therefore, the question every organization needs to ask itself is the following:\u00a0If someone came to you with a breakthrough innovation, how would they sell it?’<\/strong><\/p>\n

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‘Frog Creates An Open-Source Guide To Design Thinking’<\/a><\/p>\n

‘Brainstorming, whether you believe in it or shun it, is a fantastic neologism<\/strong>. But as Frog Principal Designer David Sherwin has found, it\u2019s also a very American word–one that doesn\u2019t exist in every language. \u201cWe were in Bangladesh, trying to translate the idea into Bengali,\u201d says Sherwin, remembering a recent trip his team spent working with teenage girls on community issues. \u201cOne of the translators on our team wrote up on the board, brain + storm. It couldn\u2019t be translated.\u201d’<\/p>\n

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‘5 Levers of Behaviour Change’<\/a><\/p>\n

‘Any time an innovation is introduced to a group of users, it requires them to change their behavior. After all, innovations are by definition \u201cnew.\u201d\u00a0And with this newness comes change<\/strong>.’<\/p>\n

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‘Open Data: Is there a business case?’<\/a><\/p>\n

””If [you open your data] you can change the rules to expose your competitor’s internal contradictions,” Taggart said.\u00a0“Most big, fat secure companies don’t have the confidence to disrupt themselves.”<\/strong>‘<\/p>\n

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‘Data Bartering Is Everywhere’<\/a><\/p>\n

‘Noam Bardin wanted to expand the reach of his company\u2019s mobile mapping app to South America. It was a bold idea, but an expensive one. So over the past year, Bardin, the chief executive officer of Palo Alto-based Waze, met with resellers of geographical mapping information and asked them for access to their proprietary data.\u00a0The catch: The Israeli entrepreneur said that he didn\u2019t want to pay a dime to get it.<\/strong>‘<\/p>\n

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‘Apple and Twitter’\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

‘My friend and co-worker Tom has a thesis about Apple\u2019s biggest problem:\u00a0Google is getting better at design faster than Apple is getting better at web services.<\/strong>‘<\/p>\n

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‘Twitter, Apple and Scaling’<\/a><\/p>\n

‘The atmosphere at Apple was poisonous<\/strong>. It was a very heavy top-down management style. My own personal experience of it was short and painful. Decisions by senior staff (yours truly) were questioned by people higher up who didn’t really have trust in their employees.\u00a0Twitter is completely different.\u00a0<\/strong>Employees there are treated like grown-ups. Decisions are owned by whoever decides to make the decision. If someone says “Hey, we should do X,” the response tends to be “go for it!”<\/p>\n

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‘Alone Together, Again’<\/a><\/p>\n

‘I owe my life to technology.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I first realized it in my early twenties. Everything important around me at the time, I\u2019d found on Craigslist: my girlfriend, my job, my apartment. It was a powerful realization: I could sit down with my laptop and, in a matter of hours or days, change my world in both superficial and fundamental ways.’<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I would like to think of this as an innovative reimagning of\u00a0Martin Belam’s Friday Reading posts\u00a0but as you can see it is a blatant copy. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery etc. Anyway, I am using this as a way to get back into the habit of more regular writing and also a way […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,13,15,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friday-reading","category-ideas","category-innovation","category-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adendavies.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adendavies.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adendavies.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adendavies.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adendavies.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adendavies.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adendavies.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adendavies.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adendavies.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}