Clay Christensen

A bit of weekend reading

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…oftentimes you can see change on the horizon, assuming you’re looking for it, and there comes a day when the landscape flips. But the old entities attached to the old ways refuse to adjust, they believe in holding back the future, staying rooted in the past, to their detriment, because the public is not controlled by them. 

Bob Lefsetz

This simple insight is Silicon Valley (a proverbial proxy for post-industrial technology). Why it exists, why it eats itself, and why it finds the future. A more business version of this insight is Clay Christensen’s Innovator’s Dilemma. 

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What really matters

It has been a busy few days, and perhaps that is why it took me till this weekend to actually sit down and think about the loss of three individuals whose work and efforts have been part of the modern zeitgeist and post-Internet society. These people we lost were ones we admired, respected, and hoped to emulate.

Leila Janah, who represented the best of our industry by showing the rest of us how technology can provide hope and power change, passed at the young age of 37 to a rare form of cancer. Another luminary, Clay Christensen, who used his words and ideas to transform industries, companies, and people, also fell prey to cancer, the scourge of modern times. And then there is Kobe Bryant.

In the discussions around these individuals, no one talked about the colleges they attended, the money they made, or how famous they were — though

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