Mea Culpa first. The Poiesis blog had slowed down during the summer, mainly due to unfortunate injury to my right hand, which in turn first stalled and then slowed my typing and writing. I will be gradually back to the…
It has been slow at the Poiesis blog, as the end of semester duties draw to an end. Meanwhile interesting operations events have occurred at our horizon of interest. Notes will follow on this topics, but here are some quick thoughts.…
To cover 400 years of American business history or capitalism is a daunting task. Fortunately, the author Bhu Srinivasan is up to the challenge. Penguin Press, 2017. Bhu Srinivasan, 500 pages. Srinivasan, from what appears from the blurb, is a…
This is third (and final) in the series of posts thinking aloud about the Facebook Kerfuffle. See the first post on the nature of Information Leakage, and the second post on FOMO and how networks fall. In this post, I…
This is the second article in a series of posts on thinking about Facebook Kerfuffle. You can read the first article (on Leaky Platforms) here. In this post, I focus on how networks can fall. To illustrate the tentativeness in…
In the light of Guardian’s investigative reporting sourced on the whistleblower at Cambridge Analytica, it appears that almost all of the internet has been upset with Facebook. After an extended silence of several days, Zuckerberg was finally on a semi-apology…
The past is more opaque than the future. Even when we know the “rough” history of what transpired, it is sometimes hard to imagine, how things were before the natural evolution into the current “normalcy” occurred. I imagine that, very…