The Legendary Meeting Between Ferruccio Lamborghini and Enzo Ferrari Ferruccio Lamborghini, founder of the iconic luxury sports car brand I love my lunchtime chats with coworkers, and I know they are anything but typical. We get into some interesting subjects, and I always seem to take away at least one thing every lunch hour. Somehow the topic of Ferrari's came up a few months ago and after doing some fact checking I found what they...
Daniel Pink's RSA Animate on the Science of Motivation Autonomy The desire to direct our own lives and work Mastery The urge to get better at what matters to us Purpose The yearning to serve something larger than ourselves Understanding Intrinsic Motivation About Daniel Pink Daniel H. Pink is the author of several bestselling books about business, work, creativity, and behavior, including "Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us," which is the basis for...
The Productivity Paradox Why 37x More Productive Is Impossible Zappos COO Alfred Lin enlightens us on how to become 37 times more productive in only one year! Can it be? Let's hear him out: His math isn't the problem per se. It's true that if you improve 1% each day over the previous day, that's a 1% compounding rate. My question is: Is it possible to increase your daily productivity by an entire percent every...
A powerful command-line tool for all your multimedia conversion needs Recently, I needed to create a .FLV file in Ubuntu from a .MOV for the Jungle Jim's video. During this process, I discovered FFmpeg—an incredibly versatile command-line tool that makes converting between media formats remarkably simple. FFmpeg is a powerful, open-source multimedia framework that can decode, encode, transcode, mux, demux, stream, filter, and play nearly any type of media. It's the Swiss Army knife of...
I liked one of Google's recent blog posts about "The Meaning of Open". Summary of the Article At Google we believe that open systems win. They lead to more innovation, value, and freedom of choice for consumers, and a vibrant, profitable, and competitive ecosystem for businesses. There are two components to our definition of open: open technology and open information. Open technology includes open source, meaning we release and actively support code that helps grow...
Insights into the innovation culture that keeps Google at the forefront of technology Google fosters creativity and collaboration among employees In the fast-paced world of technology, few companies have maintained their innovative edge as successfully as Google. From its humble beginnings as a search engine startup to becoming one of the world's most valuable companies, Google has consistently pushed the boundaries of what's possible in technology and business. At the heart of Google's success lies...