Here are a few of the links that have caught my interest recently:
- Paul Stamatiou, a bright young fellow at my alma mater Georgia Tech, has a good write-up comparing Blu-ray and HD TV. I haven’t personally upgraded to an HDTV yet, but I suspect many of you have and that you will find Paul’s detailed comparison of interest.
- Lifehacker points us to a script to de-dupe iCal events.
- Michael Hyatt has a very interesting write-up on having second thoughts about his iPhone. The problem with battery life looks like the most significant to me (unless you happen to live in an area where AT&T coverage is not good, as is the case with Michael).
- Jay White has a well-thought-out discussion of why change fails. One thing I would add to the list is “bad assumptions.” All too often a change fails because we assumed something that turned out not being true. It pays to document your assumptions and to study them carefully.
- John Brockman asks the question “What have you changed your mind about? Why?” and receives a ton of interesting answers from some deep thinkers. Brockman’s Edge is a site I like to visit from time to time. Its views, typically from famous scientists, are often enlightening and sometimes do cause me to rethink things. It tends to have a sort of logical positivist flavor, a philosophy which I believe ultimately falls on its own sword, but a philosophy that I sometimes find myself buying into.
- David Allen offers some good advice on how to make 2008 your most productive year. This article appears on the Huffington Post, where David has a series of articles which he adds to every Monday. I generally enjoy his writing, although his post on priorities leaves me scratching my head. I guess I was expecting it to be more how-to-oriented.
Happy New Year!