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If you’re a gamer, you’re familiar with earning “XP” (experience points). If you’re not familiar with it, your kids are probably staring at you right now and wondering why you’re so weird. Basically, you accrue XP by playing a game over time - and that XP is

Yesterday morning, while exercising, I found myself thinking that I wanted to write a blog post about “open vs. closed” and how the whole argument (open source, openstack, open business models) had gotten so confused that the word “open” meant NOTHING anymore. And then Apple released it’s

We’re 29 days from Defrag, and things are about to all fall into place. The final agenda gets posted this week. The registrations are rolling in. The amazing people are prepping to gather. And you do NOT wanna miss what’s sure to be our best Defrag yet.

The opening keynote at Defrag will be given by Alex Wright. I’ve been emailing back and forth with Alex a bit about the topic, title, etc — and thought I’d share The Deep History of Oral Culture and Social Networks As the Internet continues to evolve into

Today’s the last day for Defrag Early Bird pricing, and you should really hop on this train! Invariably, someone will email me (or Brad) next week and ask for a code to discount things down to early bird prices, so let me just give you the answer

Did I mention that Defrag’s Early Bird pricing expires tomorrow? The Enterprise Irregular Track on the Defrag agenda is starting to take shape. It’s not up on-line just yet, but I wanted to get it posted here asap, so that folks would be able to see it

I’m overjoyed to be able to finally announce something we’ve been working on for a while: The Kauffman Foundation Entrepreneur Scholarship for Defrag. If you’re not familiar with the Kauffman Foundation, this blurb might help: “The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation was established in the mid-1960s by the

It’s funny how your “pitches” change over time. When we started Defrag four years ago, my pitch (where “pitch” is “describe the show and it’s value”) went off on some tangent about global brainstorming sessions, and building technologies to accelerate the process of insight. Now, my pitch

Humans have a weakness (it’s actually physiological, I think): a predilection toward narcissism. As such, we always see whatever time we’re living in as THE crucial time in the span of human history (at every point in history, every one has thought that surely THIS is the

Okay, this is a bit of a rant, but here goes… I was reading this article this morning, and one sentence stood out: “Peter Drucker once said that ‘the purpose of a business is to create and keep a customer.’” The purpose of a business is to