http://www.nehrlich.com/blog Eric Nehrlich, Unrepentant Generalist Thu, 08 May 2008 12:51:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A few months ago, I read a post calling for authors for a book called The Age of Conversation. It sounded interesting, so I put in my name and will be one of 275 people (listed below) contributing a single page 400-word essay on the theme of "Why Don't ... http://www.nehrlich.com/blog/2008/05/08/age-of-conversation/ As I'm finishing up my master's program at Columbia, it's time to reflect back on my experiences of the past two years. I wrote up an email to Frank Giardini from the comments on yesterday's post, who asked about comparing the program to getting an MBA, and realized I ... http://www.nehrlich.com/blog/2008/05/07/executive-masters-in-technology-management-at-columbia/ Yesterday was the last class of my master's program at Columbia (I have one more final next week, but no more class sessions). A bunch of us technology management students went out for drinks afterwards in celebration, and ran into another group of students from our marketing class. ... http://www.nehrlich.com/blog/2008/05/06/intelligence-and-non-zero-sum-thinking/ A friend recently sent me an update email with the line:She is my "it's complicated" on Facebook. [updated to add: the friend in question cites xkcd as his inspiration] I think this quote is wonderfully transcendent in capturing the zeitgeist, so much so that I'm going to spend a blog post unpacking ... http://www.nehrlich.com/blog/2008/04/15/unpacking-its-complicated/ Over the weekend, I went for a walk and listened to Nassim Nicholas Taleb's talk at the Long Now (viewable at the Whole Earth site, and summarized here). I've been doing this for a few weekends now - I can never pay enough attention to listen to a talk ... http://www.nehrlich.com/blog/2008/04/14/nassim-nicholas-taleb-and-nonlinearity/ I just realized I don't have an "About Me" page on this blog. You can get a sense of who I am from reading the various posts and browsing the archives, but I figured it might be handy to have an introduction post. This is partially inspired by ... http://www.nehrlich.com/blog/2008/04/07/introductions/ I watched the season premiere of Battlestar Galactica this morning. This wouldn't be surprising except that I don't get the Sci-Fi channel, which broadcasts that show on Friday evenings. I watched it over at hulu.com, the video site started by NBC (which owns the Sci-Fi channel) after they ... http://www.nehrlich.com/blog/2008/04/05/the-future-of-television/ Amazon link I love being part of teams. When I'm on a good team, I work harder, I get more done, and I enjoy the activity more. My biggest career achievement thus far was achieved as part of a tight interdisciplinary team. And yet I've often been part ... http://www.nehrlich.com/blog/2008/03/19/the-wisdom-of-teams-by-jon-katzenbach-and-douglas-smith/ I spent the weekend at BarCampNYC3, an unconference in the mode of the BrainJams I once attended. It was great to meet a bunch of new people, including some nextNY folks I had never met in person, and to get the chance to talk about interesting topics for a ... http://www.nehrlich.com/blog/2008/03/17/tracing-influence-through-the-network/ I went to New York Bite Club last weekend. Bite Club is an underground eating club which serves gourmet dinners in private apartments around New York. It was excellent. I highly recommend it. It was an amusing process to get into the dinner. I had to apply ... http://www.nehrlich.com/blog/2008/03/17/new-york-bite-club/