Comment on Xerox PARC, Apple, and the truth about innovation.Comments−iqster14yMalcom Gladwell talking about innovation? No thanks! This is the same dude who thinks Intellectual Ventures is an innovation machine.http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/05/12/080512fa_fact_...−jamesbritt14yIndeed. He is the king of anecdata such that "Gladwelling" has become a word (roughly meaning to construct a pretense of argument from a series of anecdotes).Plus there's this (ab)use of his name: http://cyclingprof.blogspot.com/2010/04/gladwelled.html−kenjackson14yIf you read the article it's hard not to believe that IV is an innovation machine. Hatred of SW patents aside their talent and ideas are pretty cool.−william4214yWhich just makes it even more tragic that such bright people are working for the king of patent trolls.−noonespecial14yIts damn near meta-tragic. Bright people thinking up things that they are going to actively prevent from being invented.
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Malcom Gladwell talking about innovation? No thanks! This is the same dude who thinks Intellectual Ventures is an innovation machine.
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/05/12/080512fa_fact_...
Indeed. He is the king of anecdata such that "Gladwelling" has become a word (roughly meaning to construct a pretense of argument from a series of anecdotes).
Plus there's this (ab)use of his name: http://cyclingprof.blogspot.com/2010/04/gladwelled.html
If you read the article it's hard not to believe that IV is an innovation machine. Hatred of SW patents aside their talent and ideas are pretty cool.
Which just makes it even more tragic that such bright people are working for the king of patent trolls.
Its damn near meta-tragic. Bright people thinking up things that they are going to actively prevent from being invented.