My post from earlier today reminded me of a phrase a coworker introduced me to a few year ago:
Seagull Status
You might have a company that’s your client with multiple point people you meet with on a regular basis, but then there’s the stakeholder. The seagull.
Why is this person the seagull?
Because he or she can fly into a room, shit on everyone and fly out. Scott free.
That’s a seagull.
I know you know some seagulls.

After using Mountain Lion for a month now, I’m certain of it.
Snow Leopard is dealing with a guy with one personality… Mountain Lion is dealing with a woman, PMSing, with multiple personalities.

Over at SFGate, James Temple calls out Silicon Valley on it’s innovation bullshit:

It’s fairly obvious the region’s business culture and investing philosophy – that is to say, the free market – often doesn’t reward the kind of “deep innovation” Levchin and Thiel trumpet.

The media attention doesn’t go to pasty scientists working tirelessly on something that maybe, might, someday change the world, it goes to the fresh-faced entrepreneur with the game trending in the App Store.

Venture capitalists are eager to cash out on their investments in as few years as possible, which requires products ready to ship and stable financial track records. And the public markets don’t reward big risks; they applaud predictable growth.
It’s not just companies in Silicon Valley that have beaten the word to death. Go to most agency, start-up and consultancy websites and you’ll find “innovation” peppered through all the copy.
Everyone loves to think they’re innovative. Very few are.
link via Matt Mullenweg