and this column is good. this could – or could not – apply to again any 3 things in the news each week. How about IBM? They broke everything to create OS/2. But that huge gap didn’t work, because the customers wanted backward compatibility. If you’re an individual, be tiger. If you’re a company with an installed base, careful about taking all of your customers on a tiger-like quest and assuming they want to go.

I’ve observed how there’s “ostrich-creep” in Prague.

Certain young people are taking increasingly complex jobs and are doing increasingly sophisticated tasks — with advanced degrees, no less — but they aren’t questioning the established order of doing things, and aren’t engaging in entrepreneurial pursuits. It’s a sight to see…the key thing in a society like this — which is just another example of the post-communist conformity — is to just have the sexy job. It doesn’t matter that this job is only paying you a passable wage, and that it’s not tickling your intellectual needs, nor challenging you. The key is to just have the job, because job = responsibility.

I try to encourage a different way of doing things, just by my presence here. I’m not sure I’m entirely successful, but I will continue to try, because that’s where the fun lies, at least for me.

–ADM