Innovation & Market Strategy

Examines how firms and individuals navigate competitive landscapes through innovation, imitation, positioning, and emerging models of work and value creation.

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2024-10-10 Ribbonfarm is Retiring
2024-05-02 There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm
2024-04-16 Stack Map of the World
2024-04-12 Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities by Bettany Hughes
2024-03-18 Harberger Tax
2024-03-14 Protocol Entrepreneurship
2024-02-21 Four Modes of BDFxing
2024-02-02 Thoughts on XMTP
2024-02-01 The Bartleby Trough
2024-01-11 Accretive Growth Logics
2023-12-28 2023 Ribbonfarm Extended Universe Roundup
2023-09-07 Worlds in Waiting
2023-05-04 Life After Language
2023-04-20 Storytelling — The Penumbra of Mortality
2023-04-05 Permissionless Research
2023-03-09 Summer of Protocols
2023-03-01 Salt-Seeking
2022-12-29 2022 Ribbonfarm Extended Universe Roundup
2022-11-17 The Art of Gig Books
2022-01-06 Random Acts of X
2021-12-29 2021 Ribbonfarm Extended Universe Annual Roundup
2021-11-09 Jumping into Web3
2021-06-24 Storytelling -- Matthew Dicks
2021-02-11 MJD 59,256
2020-12-29 Notes: Pale Rider by Laura Spinney
2020-12-02 Pascal's Market
2020-10-29 MJD 59,151
2020-09-30 Notes: The Marshall Plan by Benn Steil
2020-09-16 Notes: The Starship and the Canoe by Kenneth Brower
2020-08-24 Notes: Astounding by Alec Nevala-Lee
2020-08-19 Convergent Evolution
2020-07-14 Notes -- Freedom's Forge by Arthur Herman
2020-07-06 Notes: A Distant Mirror by Barbara Tuchman
2020-04-12 Now Reading: Pandemic Edition
2019-12-31 Complete 2019 Roundup
2019-12-16 Domestic Cozy: 10
2019-06-19 Mazes as Mirrors of Creation
2019-05-09 A New Newsletter: The Art of Gig
2019-04-22 Infinite Machines: 3 -- Turking Interfaces
2019-04-01 Weirding Diary: 6
2019-03-11 Infinite Machines: 1 - An Introduction
2019-02-28 Markets Are Eating The World
2019-02-18 Weirding Diary: 4
2018-09-13 London Visit Next Week, Three Events
2018-08-26 Refactorings Roundup 08/19/2018 - 8/25/2018
2018-08-16 Refactor Camp 2018: Cryptoeconomics and Blockchain Weirding Post-Mortem
2018-08-09 Tarpits and Antiflocks
2018-07-03 Semi-Annual Roundup, 2018
2018-05-17 Refactor Camp: Cryptoeconomics and Blockchain Weirding Summary and Wrap Up
2018-03-08 Refactor Camp 2018: Cryptoeconomics and Blockchain Weirding
2018-02-20 2018 Annual Letter
2018-01-30 The Elephant in the Brain
2018-01-18 The Unapologetic Case For Bullshit
2017-11-09 CEOs Don't Steer
2017-10-10 The Blockchain Man
2017-08-08 The Crisis of the Lonely Atoms
2017-07-20 The Ominouslier Roar of the Bitcoin Wave
2017-05-30 Y Tribenator
2017-05-25 Blockchains Never Forget
2017-05-23 There are bots. Look around.
2017-05-09 A Priest, a Guru, and a Nerd-King Walk Into a Conference Room...
2017-04-25 One Weird Longform Trick...on the Blockchain!
2017-04-18 Entrepreneurship is Metaphysical Labor
2016-12-21 The Computational Condition
2016-10-11 Radical Candor
2016-09-27 Mapping Organizational Realities
2016-09-07 Startups, Secrets, and Abductive Reasoning
2016-07-28 Fat Thinking and Economies of Variety
2016-07-13 Welcome to Nixonland
2016-05-19 Examining the Accidental Life
2016-03-17 Go Corporate or Go Home
2016-02-09 Berliners #9: The Scent of a Yak
2016-02-04 Free Money
2016-01-14 Berliners #6: Purgatorinomics
2015-12-23 Complete 2015 Roundup
2015-08-11 Low Humanity Orbit
2015-04-15 The Capitalist's Zombie
2015-04-02 The Art of Gig III
2015-03-26 The Art of Gig II
2015-03-19 The Art of Gig
2015-03-12 The Art of Agile Leadership
2014-12-02 The Future of Tipping
2014-10-08 The Adjacency Fallacy
2014-09-30 The Political Hangover of Prohibition
2014-09-17 We Have Them Surrounded in Their Tanks
2014-08-12 The Economics of Pricelessness
2014-07-23 Structure Follows Context
2014-07-16 Close Encounters of the Missing Kind
2014-07-09 A Koan is not a Riddle
2014-06-18 The Physics of Stamp Collecting
2014-06-11 The Deliberate Practice of Disruption
2014-05-29 Artistic Forestry: 2014 Annual Letter
2014-05-20 The Logic of Uberreaction
2014-04-30 Replaceability and the Economics of Disequilibrium
2014-04-24 Product-Driven versus Customer-Driven
2014-03-12 Authors and Directors
2014-01-21 The Poor Usability Tell
2014-01-01 Free, as in Agent
2013-11-19 Deep Play: An Impressionistic Theory of Innovation
2013-10-18 The Government Within
2013-10-11 The Mother of All Disruptions
2013-10-02 Truth in Consulting
2013-09-18 Freedom in Smooth Space
2013-07-10 You Are Not an Artisan
2013-05-21 Schleps, Puzzles, and Packages: Solving Complex Problems the Iron Man Way
2013-04-25 Branches and Roots: 2013 Call for Sponsorships
2013-04-08 Overtake on the Turn, Overwhelm on the Straight
2013-04-03 The Locust Economy
2013-02-19 The Cloistered Hedgehog and The Dislocated Fox
2013-02-15 Adventures in Amateur Talking-Headery
2013-01-31 Stone-Soup for the Capitalist's Soul
2013-01-28 Jailbreaking the City: Announcing Refactor Camp 2013
2013-01-02 Schumpeter's Demon
2012-12-19 Complete 2012 Roundup
2012-11-23 Talk on Kool Aid, VUCA Discussion, Tuesday Nov 27 at USC (Los Angeles)
2012-10-31 Deskless in Seattle, Future of Data Survey
2012-10-15 Economies of Scale, Economies of Scope
2012-09-27 Cloud Mouse, Metro Mouse
2012-09-20 Money as Pain Relief
2012-07-13 The Generalized Hawthorne Effect
2012-06-20 The Mysteries of Money
2012-06-13 Getting Ahead, Getting Along, Getting Away
2012-05-17 Discussion Note: Sartre's Nausea vs. Future Nausea
2012-05-14 How Life Imitates Chess by Garry Kasparov
2012-05-07 Creative Desks versus Administration Desks
2012-04-30 The 6-Hour Maker-Manager Work Day
2012-04-25 Go Deep, Young Man: 2012 Call for Sponsorships
2012-03-14 Reviewing Refactor Camp 2012
2012-03-08 Hall's Law: The Nineteenth Century Prequel to Moore's Law
2012-01-28 Does Culture Eat Strategy for Lunch?
2012-01-19 Steer, Ready, Fire
2012-01-06 2012 Reading List, January - June
2011-12-22 Tempo: Year One
2011-12-21 Complete 2011 Roundup
2011-12-15 How the World Works: Part II
2011-12-08 Acting Dead, Trading Up and Leaving the Middle Class
2011-12-01 How the World Works
2011-10-19 The Quest for Immortality
2011-10-13 Tempo Review on BoingBoing by Cory Doctorow
2011-09-29 Ubiquity Illusions and the Chicken-Egg Problem
2011-09-23 The Milo Criterion
2011-09-08 Fixing the Game by Roger L. Martin
2011-08-31 Bandwagon Timing verus Biding Your Time
2011-08-19 The Calculus of Grit
2011-08-12 The August Reading List Freeze
2011-07-31 On Being an Illegible Person
2011-07-24 Chet Richards' Review of Tempo on Fabius Maximus
2011-07-07 The End of the Parade
2011-06-30 California Visit: July 11 - Aug 4, including a 4th Anniversary Field Trip
2011-06-29 The Four Kinds of Economies
2011-06-24 Semi-Annual Roundup 2011 and Highlights for New Readers
2011-06-08 A Brief History of the Corporation: 1600 to 2100
2011-06-03 Towards Thick Strategy Narratives
2011-06-02 The Las Vegas Rules I: The Slightly Malevolent Universe
2011-05-21 Timepass and Boredom
2011-05-20 \"Ready, Fire, Aim,\" with Wild Bill
2011-05-16 Startup Deathwatch in Memphis
2011-05-14 Sexual Personae by Camille Paglia
2011-05-09 Week 2: Ann Arbor, Nashville, Atlanta, New Orleans
2011-05-02 Week 1: DC, Wilmington, Albany, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto
2011-05-02 Week 1: DC, Wilmington, Albany, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto
2011-03-31 Tempo Stealth Edition
2011-03-24 Say Hello to "Barbarian," the Crowd-Funded Ribbonfarm Laptop
2011-03-01 Where the Wild Thoughts Are
2011-02-10 Waiting versus Idleness
2011-02-02 The Disruption of Bronze
2010-11-29 What Does it Mean to Work Hard?
2010-11-16 What Entrepreneurs Can Learn from the Poor
2010-11-06 The World of Garbage
2010-11-05 Ancient Rivers of Money
2010-10-20 Coloring the Whole Egg: Fixing Integrated Marketing
2010-09-21 The Seven Dimensions of Positioning
2010-09-08 King Gustavus' Folly: The Story of the Vasa
2010-08-03 Down with Innovation, Up with Imitation!
2010-07-28 Wanted: A Book Cover Designer for \"Tempo\"
2010-07-26 A Big Little Idea Called Legibility
2010-07-22 The Right Question, Review of Shallows, Insight vs. Mind-Candy
2010-07-20 The Happy Company
2010-07-13 The Eight Metaphors of Organization
2010-06-03 Three Off-Ribbonfarm Posts
2010-05-06 Two Interesting Gervais Principle Follow-Ups
2010-05-04 The Lords of Strategy by Walter Kiechel
2010-04-28 Be Slightly Evil
2010-04-12 Four-Hour Workweek or Executricks?
2010-04-08 Against the Gods by Peter Bernstein
2010-03-13 Linchpin by Seth Godin, and 8 Other Short Book Reviews
2010-03-01 The Expedient, Desirable Product
2010-02-11 Guest Post on VentureBeat on the iPad
2010-02-09 Bright-Sided by Barbara Ehrenreich
2010-01-23 Impro by Keith Johnstone
2010-01-17 \"Up in the Air\" and the Future of Work
2010-01-13 Conceptual Metaphors (Mashable), Gervais Principle (Fugitive Philosophy)
2010-01-09 Drive by Dan Pink
2010-01-02 2009 Roundup, 2010 Preview
2009-12-16 The Right and Left Brains of Enterprise 2.0
2009-12-01 Pricing in Pay-It-Forward and Gift Economies
2009-10-14 Hello to Slashdotters, Gervais Principle Follow-Ups
2009-08-27 The Outlaw Sea by William Langewiesche
2009-08-19 On Going Feral
2009-07-21 The Crucible Effect and the Scarcity of Collective Attention
2009-07-17 Cloudworker Board Game Revisited
2009-07-07 The Epic Story of Container Shipping
2009-06-22 Neurotic Leaders, Paternalistic Managers and Self-Absorbed Workers
2009-06-15 Marketing, Innovation and the Creation of Customers
2009-05-28 The Hunter-Gatherer Theory of Markets and Shopping
2009-05-15 The Discovery of Money
2009-05-05 Ribbonfarm at the Crossroads
2009-04-15 Coworking: \"I'm Outta Here\" by Jones, Sundsted and Bacigalupo
2009-04-08 Design and Architecture
2009-03-31 The Slash Effect
2009-03-20 Succession Planning: Marshall Goldsmith vs. Eric Raymond
2009-02-17 The Training of the Organization Man
2009-02-03 Who: The A Method for Hiring by Smart and Street
2009-01-18 The Cloudworker, Layoffs and The Disposable American
2009-01-07 Allenism, Taylorism and the Day I Rode the Thundercloud
2008-12-31 Six Personal Favorites for 2008
2008-12-26 Complete 2008 Roundup
2008-12-10 Serious Games for Serious Business
2008-12-03 Brain Rules by John Medina
2008-12-01 Future-of-Work Mini-X-Prizes at Cloudworker.org
2008-11-23 The Ideology of the Organization Man
2008-11-18 The Organization Man by William Whyte: Introduction
2008-11-14 Spanning Silos by David Aaker
2008-11-09 Is There a Cloudworker Culture?
2008-11-05 The Cloud President, Obama
2008-11-03 The Corporate College and Other Election 3.0 Ideas
2008-10-31 My First Book, A Board Game and 'Cloudworker' on the NYT
2008-10-30 Vote for 'Cloudworker' Among Plantronics Contest Finalists!
2008-10-29 Cloudworker Economics
2008-10-23 The Cloudworker's Creed
2008-10-16 Mastering the Hype Cycle by Fenn and Raskino
2008-10-07 The Headcount Myth and the Value of Overbooking
2008-10-01 The 10 Immutable Laws of Nanoeconomics
2008-09-25 Crowdsourcing and The Wisdom of the Crowds
2008-09-18 Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely
2008-09-06 Organizing to Disrupt
2008-09-04 Maslow for Market Segmentation
2008-08-17 The Impossibility Triangle in Talent Management
2008-08-10 The Future of the Internet according to Jonathan Zittrain
2008-07-23 Acceleration as Strategy, Urgency as Doctrine
2008-07-21 Towards a Philosophy of Destruction
2008-07-17 Peter Cappelli's "Talent On Demand"
2008-07-13 Work-Life Chemistry and How to Measure It
2008-06-22 Theory W, Theory X and Theory Y
2008-06-16 Roundup: March 21 - June 16
2008-06-11 Groundswell by Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff
2008-06-03 Context-Switching Metaphors for Work-Life Blending
2008-06-01 Three Great Jobs in the Fourth Xerox Revolution
2008-05-28 Outsider Innovation 101
2008-05-20 The Evolution of Work-Life
2008-05-18 Megacommunities and Macrotrends
2008-05-11 What Got You Here Won't Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith
2008-05-01 Jump Point by Tom Hayes
2008-04-23 Ronald Coase and Salvation from Anthropological Economics
2008-04-19 A Map of the World 2.0 Canon
2008-04-15 The Coming Triumph of the Strengths Movement
2008-04-14 The Sage of Ribbonfarm #1
2008-04-08 The New Location, Location, Location
2008-04-07 CEO Badger Picks a CSO
2008-04-05 Generation Blend by Rob Salkowitz
2008-04-03 Inventoritis and the Grabowski Ratio
2008-03-30 The NAE's Grand Challenges vs. Mine
2008-03-23 Johnny Bunko and the Future of Work
2008-03-02 The Varieties of Innovation Experience
2008-02-23 The Big Switch by Nicholas Carr
2008-02-19 Entrepreneurship, Intrapreneurship and Cross-preneurship
2008-02-11 Book Review and Summary: Strategic Intuition
2008-01-31 The Broken Brain Books
2008-01-24 How to Pick Business and Self-Improvement Books
2007-11-25 Clockspeed and Business Genetics Reconsidered
2007-11-19 The Deeper Meaning of Kindle
2007-11-17 A Surfer's Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything
2007-11-05 The Age of Speed by Vince Poscente
2007-10-25 An MBA in Gordon's Restaurant
2007-10-02 Is Jeff Bezos the New Jack Welch?
2007-09-13 Book-Reading Meme
2007-09-06 Seth Godin's Dip and Multi-armed Bandits
2007-08-27 Dan Pink, Howard Gardner and the Da Vinci Mind
2007-08-20 Open Innovation, or is Business War?
2007-08-16 Digital Philosophy - I: The Real is Unreal
2007-08-06 Book Review: Blue Ocean Strategy
2007-08-01 The Fifty-Foot Rule Reconsidered
2007-07-23 Disruptive versus Radical Innovations
2007-07-22 Book Review: Competing on Analytics
2007-07-08 Silos and the art of Empirical Theology
2007-07-04 Book Reviews: The Trouble with Physics, Not Even Wrong
2007-07-02 The House of Tata and Indian Innovation
2007-06-13 Book Review: Wikinomics