- Paint – outside done
- Paint – inside done except for touch-up around trim
- Garage door and opener installed
- Window sills done
- Floor *about* to begin
New House: Day 132
New House: Day 130
…went a little early this week:
- Interior trim (around doors, moulding, floor boards, etc.)
- Interior doors hung
- Exterior trim (Styrofoam, basically)
TED: Perspective is Everything
http://www.ted.com/talks/rory_sutherland_perspective_is_everything.html
Know what the customer wants before they do
When Jobs took his original Macintosh team on its first retreat, one member asked whether they should do some market research to see what customers wanted. “No,” Jobs replied, “because customers don’t know what they want until we’ve shown them.” He invoked Henry Ford’s line “If I’d asked customers what they wanted, they would have told me, ‘A faster horse!’”
New House: Day 111
- Insulation inspection passed
- roof soffit’s / trim installed
- Drywall ready to go
New House: Day 104
No spotted changes since the roof went on; failed inspection (mech full).
When predictions go wrong: iPhone
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aRelVKWbMAv0
Some favorites:
The big competitors in the mobile-phone industry such as Nokia Oyj and Motorola Inc. won’t be whispering nervously into their clamshells over a new threat to their business.
The iPhone is nothing more than a luxury bauble that will appeal to a few gadget freaks. In terms of its impact on the industry, the iPhone is less relevant.
There are three reasons that Apple is unlikely to make much of an impact on this market — and why it is too early to start dumping your Nokia shares.
…ok I need to stop before I paste the entire article.