Björn Jeffery

We need to look at fresh ideas,” said Carson. “I don’t have any problem with the Palestinians having a state, but does it need to be within the confines of Israeli territory? Is that necessary, or can you sort of slip that area down into Egypt? This is incredible from every possible angle. This is an American presidential candidate. Ben Carson’s “fresh” foreign policy: Just “sort of slip” Palestinians down to Egypt – Salon.com

If you grew up in a small town, and went to Stanford, and then got a job in tech in the South Bay, then you could reach your 30s and be running a large company or part of one, and never in your life have walked past a shop selling something wonderful that you never knew existed. Even in San Francisco that would be pretty easy. That is, living here after living in London, it’s […]

Drake + Cat

The Breakfast Machine. Exactly what it sounds like. (via The Breakfast Machine – YouTube) (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

Wall Street tends to understand the transactional much better than deep customer relationships Wall Street Sours on Whole Foods Market – The New York Times

The underlying cause of this debt glut is the $12tn of free or cheap money created by central banks since 2009, combined with near-zero interest rates. When the real price of money is close to zero, people borrow and worry about the consequences later. It’s different this time, right? Apocalypse now: has the next giant financial crash already begun? | Comment is free | The Guardian

The slide that most app developers seem not to have understood. (via Activate Tech and Media Outlook 2016)

Trust takes a long time to create, but merely seconds to lose. This is true both as a company and as an employee. I was thinking about a post I wrote about a year ago on my management style and how sometimes I am mistakingly thought to not notice things since I’m not in too many details. I do notice, but I try not to lead companies or people on that level. This way of working, […]

Regardless, here’s my advice to all the Biffs, Sebastians, Brooks, and Tiffanys who want to be kingmakers: Venture capital is something to do at the end of your career, not the beginning. It should be your last job, not your first. My theory is that when you’re young, you should work eighty hours a week to create a product or service that changes the world. You should not sit in board meetings listening to an […]

The illusion of creative control is maintained by the fig leaf of a songwriting credit. The performer’s name will often appear in the list of songwriters, even if his or her contribution is negligible. (There’s a saying for this in the music industry: “Change a word, get a third.”) Karl Martin Sandberg, Mikkel Eriksen, Tor Hermansen and Other Songwriters Behind the Hits of Katy Perry and Taylor Swift – The Atlantic