Lynne Kiesling Five years ago I wrote this post reviewing the Preston Vineyards 2002 Cinsault, and in it I said that we would drink our second bottle of it with a nice spring lamb stew, a navarin d’agneau, or navarin printanier as Julia Child styles it in my go-to Mastering the Art of French Cooking. …
Lynne Kiesling In today’s Forbes.com, Sramana Mitra has a column discussing the role of universities and taxpayer funding in innovation that contributes to economic growth. She is a thoughtful and insightful commentator, and I recommend the article, despite having a couple of disagreements with her argument. I do think she overstates the case against innovation …
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Lynne Kiesling Last week was our spring break, and the KP Spouse and I were in Colorado all week. I spent the entire week off-grid — no computer, no Internet, zip zilch nada, nothing but snow and books and music (and, toward the end of the week, basketball for the KP Spouse and our friend …
Lynne Kiesling I’ve been listening to lots of music lately, and the stuff that keeps floating to the top of my rotation is the James album “Hey Ma” from fall 2008 and the newly-released Franz Ferdinand “Tonight”. I have missed James, and am glad they are back! The new Franz Ferdinand is such an incredible …
Lynne Kiesling Bob Cringely’s take on Google’s Power Meter: it’s a strategic move toward them becoming an ISP: Google’s PowerMeter is a Trojan horse – a way to become a de facto Internet Service Provider for potentially millions of homes. Several years ago Google made a $100 million investment in a suburban Washington, DC company …
Lynne Kiesling When I was reading around for my post on smart grid and renewables interconnection, I found several different parties willing to elide the two, to gloss over the important, subtle distinction between building new wires and incorporating digital intelligence and communication capabilities into a wires network. They are potentiall related, but different, and …
Lynne Kiesling As a child growing up in Pittsburgh in the mid-1970s, I couldn’t help being a sports fan, including football. One of my favorite Steelers from the mid-70s was tight end Randy Grossman. Agile, fast, and a joy to watch. Imagine my joy now as I find out that he is a fellow knitter! …
Lynne Kiesling This is one of the best essays about writing that I’ve seen in a long time: How to Write with Confidence. Whether you write books, journal articles, blog posts or tweets, these suggestions are great.
Lynne Kiesling I really like this HBS blog post called The Case for Institutional Innovation from John Hagel, John Seely Brown, and Lang Davidson. In it they argue that future organizations are more likely to be “pull organizations”: Pull-based institutions are those that bring the force of attraction to bear on tens or even hundreds …
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Lynne Kiesling Looking for some useful and eclectic collections to add to your daily reading? Two that I enjoy are Arts & Letters Daily (AL Daily) and The Browser.
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