Father of 19-, 17- and 11-years old boys... an engineer working for the 20th year in the ever changing world.
yet another level of targetting....at least new to me
Yesterday I helped Otto and his friend Jere to book flights to and
hotel from London. We did quite a bit browsing in various services. An
few days earlier I had a look at Tahko and Levi hotels.
Today I looked Sal/Santa Maria wind forecast from Windguru and voila -
magically those hotels I had specifically checked the availability and
price also from Booking.com (but did not purchase), appear in
Windguru's banner ad. And I guess this is between Windguru and
Booking.com (?) and not through Google Ad system, since I was doing
the stuff in actual Booking.com site.
when I do not know if I am using a service or strange commercial mesh
ahead? ;)
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Sci-Fi showing what's the future .. again
Decades (both funny and scary to admit it) ago had I bought my first
Enki Bilal album "La foire aux immortels", " Jumalaton näytelmä" in
Finnish. Great sleep like mix of pure fantasy and elements of
description of a dystopian future.
Over the past few years, in this era of ever more disgusting reality
TV shows, from time to time I have been remembering Bilal's dystopian
vision of sports - his future version of ice hockey.
Emergence and increasing popularity of so called mixed martial fights
(like UFC and others like that) has kept remembering me of his vision.
And now this: http://utblive.com/
Man, how freaking far we have gone in just 1-2 human generations...
from a time when probably pretty much the whole global population just
wished for peace to time where stupidity has no limits.
"maybe" not so much from it's artistic values).
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sliding musical perceptions...
Just realized that I actually have started to perceive many individual
pieces from eg ambient composers/performers (now considered as part of
the popular music culture by most people?) more as "classical music"
than most of the music from modern contemporary composers. There can
be quite rough electronic elements within and even then it's more
"classical music" for me than atonality of modern contemporary music.
OK quite often ambient performers are guilty of just pressing the echo
pedal down and giving plim-plim-plim a go.... but still many pieces I
would classify into my classical music "karsina".
http://open.spotify.com/track/6RaXmoqcIe0eYvnYNpMZX6
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Fairmusic
We should really have Fairtrade-like system for music... With Spotify we are willingly now giving up for new totally unfair monopoly which ends up to less and less for musicians and less choises. Whereas Net could (have) lead to more for musicians and more choises. Liberation. Lähetetty Windows Phonesta
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Proof of how stupid world is...
The valuation of Rovio is expected reach Nokia... Zynga's valuation is between 10...20B€ with 235M revenue, 11.8M profit in a quartal.
How freaking far is that from real world economics?
Finance economy = 20 x real world economy keeps killing us...
Posted from Espoo, Finland
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Broken window theory and organizations... TISKIANTERO?
Had (as always) really fruitful strategy session with Sebastian... as a side track (among many things like usual) we discussed about Broken window theory. The discussion wondered from "how the theory is so true in office environment" to "does the theory apply to how project/customer driven organization's work". We agreed - it does. To both.
A whiteboard flower... like Sebu so well it crystallized :D
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Xmas?
Just visited Outi and saw the Xmas card from Vili .... I like the style, he is talented (is a proud dad saying) but should I be worried :D
As a side remark - what a HUGE difference between HTC 5Mpix and Nokia 5Mpix. Nokia had the pic quality of current HTC like 5y ago.
Posted from Helsinki, Finland
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THE world's shittiest?
Dakine Power Uphaul... What a piece a shit.
"When your ready to hit the water for some windsurfing, be sure you have the right equipment on hand. Like the Dakine Power Windsurf Uphaul. First of all, if it has the well needed oversized EVA grips for you to have the maximum uphauling power for your large loads. Dakine has made these with the internal bungee system that will hold tight to the mast. When we are in and out of the water and using up our energy, it's great to have something like this to help out. * 52" length"
yeah right .... First of all, oversized EVA grips will separate themselves from the hard plastic and make sure that your hands are cut.
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Soul of a company
I believe companies have a soul. It is a summary of the inspirations of it's employees and appreciation of these inspirations by employer.
Companies typically try to formulate this soul into "values". Unfortunately these will tend to inevitably turn against the good cause - "values" tend to amputate the soul because in people's minds and in everyday's management realities "values" turn into outgiven, extrenalised consultancy styled jargon. Companies make it even worse by enforcing these "values" in policies and in best practices ... which do not really go along with the term "soul".
For me what happened eg in Nokia is an example of this.... Nokia's soul was really drive for better solutions. I felt (in the 1990's) that this was practically every individual's primary agenda in the company - to solve things in the best possible way. Also, Nokia's real culture valued this greatly. "Solving" was encouraged and appreciated. Then it all changed - management was officially (eg by Mr. JT Berqvist) stated to be the "only scarce resource", "everything else (=everybody) is plentifull". 2000 was the start of the era where Nokia amputed it's soul, it's employees' spirit.... and it's competitiveness.
For me Apple's soul is in the quest of mechanical and aesthical perfection - they drive for it and excel in the markets.
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