Learning something new
Whatever job you have, it's a good one if you learn something new every day. I'm lucky to have a job like that.
Don't stay on the 9th floor at the Sheraton Delfino in Santa Monica, because the dance floor is right above your head.
There's a good recent BusinessWeek article about the upcoming wireless auction. Lots of money, mystery, and new entrants. Let's hope they don't go bankrupt trying. There are rumors that some large online companies are interested in the auction as secondary players. Becoming a network provider would be a major change in an online company's DNA. But stressful situations can lead to just these kinds of changes:
[E]volution by natural selection has led to the construction of mechanisms that alter DNA in response to the signals that cells receive from other cells or from the environment.
[Evolution in Four Dimensions, by Jablonka and Lamb, MIT Press 2005].
Om Malik points to a startup that wants to get in on the action — but with free spectrum.
Wouldn't it be great if Al Gore showed up and started explaining to his former colleagues in Congress how the internet works?
Tomorrow I'll be leaving the Sheraton Delfino and its dance floor, and I'm hoping that will give me a chance to return to longer-form thoughts.