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- May 31, 2021
- 5 min
Sellers, Marketers, Makers -- Innovation's Ancestry
“In many cases there are times when an invention is technologically possible –- and in which it may indeed appear necessary, as the telescope may have -- but without a market the idea will not sell, and in the absence of the technical and social infrastructure to support it, the invention will not survive.” [emphasis added] James Burke, Connections (1978) His aim was historical research; but our lens focuses on the firm -- the place you dwell (mentally and physically) for ab
- May 11, 2021
- 7 min
API Stewards -- Software Guardians of What's to Come
Libraries connect people. With knowledge. Through the pages of books. You integrate knowledge. With software. Through the gates of APIs. When you walk into a library for the first time, you are intimidated. However beautiful, the atmosphere is daunting, everything from imposing architectures to crowded old shelves. Conversations are whispers. Or ought to be. I've walked into small-town libraries whose unassuming, on-hand collection is less than 500 contemporary books. And
