Many of my weeks are dominated by text; reading and writing. In the course of any given week, I stumble upon many interesting articles or documents. Below are a few interesting ones from the archives:
Gregory D. Foster: “A New Security Paradigm” (WorldWatch Magazine)
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This article was published in WorldWatch magazine about a year ago and is now available for free download. It’s written by a US Military expert on how the view of national and global security having to do with military action and defense is woefully wrong and how efforts should be placed in a completely different place – the environment. I know most people already know this, but judging from how little is done about it, environmental problems cannot be overstated.
Clive Thompson: Meet the Life of Hackers (NY Times)
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An interesting article detailing how destructive interruptions are to work and how they could be managed better. However, the single most useful and actionable information in here is that getting a subsctantially bigger monitor can vastly improve the perfomance and productivity of an IT-worker. Something to share with your boss
New Research Explores Multi-Sided Markets (Harvard Business School’s Working Knowledge)
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An interesting interview with Andrei Hagiu who has been studying multi-sided markets, something I’ve been digging into lately with regards to the credit card business and how it functions. Nothing earth-shatteringly new emerges in the interview, but it’s still a good introduction as to what two or multi-sided markets are and how they differ – critically – from “normal” markets.
