Link | Mission or Goal » Marshall Goldsmith Blog

Marshall Goldsmith Blog » Mission or Goal: Marshall talks about “Goal Obsession”.

“That is goal obsession, which is a subset of wanting to win too much. It rears its ugly head in many ways. In its broadest form, it’s the force at play when we get so wrapped up in achieving our goal that, like Colonel Nicholson (bridge over river kwai), we do it at the expense of a larger mission.“

Link | Is 3G Ready for the iPhone Stress Test? - GigaOM

Is 3G Ready for the iPhone Stress Test? - GigaOM: Om has good 3G data and insight into what 3G iPhone may mean from an infrastructure perspective. Also includes AT&T mobile roadmap slide: Edge/UMTS/HSDPA/HSPA/HSPA+/LTE.”

Link | Dream Round of Golf Becomes a Humbling Test - NYTimes.com

Dream Round of Golf Becomes a Humbling Test - NYTimes.com: “NYT reports on the amateurs who played US Open Torrey Pines setup yesterday. The damage was big! Atkinson (hdcp 8.1) shot 114, Lauer (hdcp 6.2 ) shot 100, Timberlake (hdcp 6.0 ) shot 98, Romo (hdcp 2.2) shot 84. Wow!”

Link | Seth’s Blog: Email checklist

Seth’s Blog: Email checklist: “I need to re-read this on a quarterly basis. Great e-mail etiquette. Thank you, Seth.”

Here are some of my faves ( from a list of 36)

• 13. Am I angry? (If so, save as draft and come back to the note in one hour).
• 14. Could I do this note better with a phone call?
• 21. Could this email be shorter?
• 36. If I had to pay 42 cents to send this email, would I?

Link | The Rise & Fall of Broadcom Co-Founder Henry T. Nicholas III - GigaOM

The Rise & Fall of Broadcom Co-Founder Henry T. Nicholas III - GigaOM: “The story just gets weirder “

Link | WDM sales overtake Sonet/SDH - fibresystems.org

WDM sales overtake Sonet/SDH - fibresystems.org: From Dell’Oro report — “Within the $1.4 billion WDM market, the WDM Metro segment outperformed the DWDM Long Haul segment and grew 47 percent over the year-ago quarter.”

Link | So… you think that femtocell users won’t need new handsets? | Dean Bubley

So… you think that femtocell users won’t need new handsets?: Dean says,” “legacy” 3G handsets can work with femtocells, they are not optimised for them.”.

(Via Dean Bubley’s Disruptive Wireless.)

Link | Why Tiered Broadband is a Wonderful Thing and ASIVS - Blog Maverick

Why Tiered Broadband is a Wonderful Thing and ASIVS - Blog Maverick: “Mark Cuban in prime form “

excerpt — “Speed is what I need. Take all your P2P downloads and get the hell off my internet.
I have no sympathy for bandwidth hogs. You all are productivity killers for the rest of us. “

Link | Why Tiered Broadband Is the Enemy of Innovation - GigaOM

Why Tiered Broadband Is the Enemy of Innovation - GigaOM: “I like the opening sentence”

“Om Malik, Wednesday, June 4, 2008 — It should come as no surprise: Incumbents are beginning to act like incumbents. But while the cable companies are the first ones to jump on the tiered broadband bandwagon, they won’t be the last.”

Om discusses why a 250GB/month data-cap may not be enough. That’s a lot, but I can see needing that in the next few years. I have a 100GB monthly data cap w/ Shaw.ca which I easily live within, but the old 50GB cap was tuff to live with.

Link | The Future of the NPU Market - Part 1 | Nyquist Capital

The Future of the NPU Market - Part 1 | Nyquist Capital: “Andrew discusses the application agnostic network and how NPUs will fare in it.”