Sapere Aude
Tag: productivity
The $650b figure is an estimate of the “cost of unnecessary interruptions” in terms of lost productivity and innovation. The number is mainly an effort to put a size on what is a big and growing problem. After all, one person’s interruption is another’s collaboration.
more like using technology to hide that you are incompetent and lazy. outlook and powerpoint probably account for the majority of those losses.
Companies have heretofore been able to manage their organizational data, whether CRM-related or not, with Salesforce applications provided by AppExchange or built on Force.com. However, their data was largely cut off from other companies, or “tenants”, who also use Salesforce’s hosted software. With S2S, businesses can now share data with partner companies, thereby taking advantage of Salesforce’s multi-tenancy architecture.
smart, if somewhat obvious, move
why the ai lab gave everyone root, including strangers. the waste of “are you authorized” is still going on in most orgs to this day.
IWantSandy is an email-based automated personal assistant that has just opened up for public signups. I’ve been using Sandy for a couple months now, and she’s fast becoming indispensable for my life. All you do is CC your personal Sandy address on your mail and throw in keywords, like “Sandy, remember that this is the grocery list” or “Sandy, remind me to follow up on this with Fred on January 1, 2008” and the Sandybot will file away all your minutae for you. Sandy emails you with reminders
this looks really cool. who will acquire them first?
I set my alarm to 6:00 and 8:00. At 6:00 I go up, take a 50mg caffeine pill, and go to bed again. Then I sleep and wake up rested and energetic around 8.
You gather evidence, mostly from historical timesheet data, that you feed back into your schedules. What you get is not just one ship date: you get a confidence distribution curve, showing the probability that you will ship on any given date.
that sounds reasonably sane
Sunday gives busy people the resources of a 24/7 personal assistant, available via telephone and Internet, at a fraction of the cost of other options.
Enterprise 2.0, when seen through the hypnotizing screen of the BlackBerry, does not amount to the liberation of corporate systems by personal systems but rather the colonization of personal systems by corporate systems.
+1
The assistance-at-a-distance model ruled a lot of things out. The assistants could not pick up my dry cleaning or go stand in line to mail a package. But I was surprised at how much they could do. Once I had registered at the website, I uploaded some personal data, such as my frequent-flier account numbers, and the names and phone numbers of my dentist, hairdresser and doctor. If I wanted an assistant to make purchases on my behalf, I could also load credit-card information in encrypted form.
this is going to be HUGE. my “spare time” is increasingly wasted dealing with inept governments, so i would pay for that. best quality of life value ever.
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Gregor J. Rothfuss 