In Ayn Rand’s classic novel The Fountainhead, the hero architect Howard Roark has a very clear philosophy for he thinks is good design. Authenticity and being true to the function and purpose of the design object is good, while going all ornamental and trying to mimic something else is evil. The same principal seems to [...]

Yesterday was another day at the Microsoft HQ, completely jam-packed with information about technologies, strategies and philosophies. When piecing everything together a picture starts to emerge: convergence. Everybody is talking about HTML5, Java Script and touch; everybody is talking about cloud computing and Microsoft Azure. Open up any device anywhere and you should now be [...]

What a day. It has just been jam packed with presentations by really knowledgable and smart people, presentations of secret future stuff and interesting off-the-record discussions. The whole experience of being here at the Microsoft headquarters has been an eye opening experience in many ways. It’s amazing to walk around such a huge campus, which [...]

First stop, Schipol airport in Amsterdam. Acute sugar low remedied with a quick Innocent mangoes and passion fruit smoothie. So far so good. Already I can say that HTML 5 is likely to be a big topic of discussion during these days. And perhaps not surprisingly, since it’s a nice platform-independent abstraction that WILL be [...]

I don’t get it. The folks at Google must be some of the smartest people on earth, but there are some things that they just don’t seem to get. Lust seems to be one of those things. While Facebook are the seduction masters of the internet world, luring people into pushing that magical “like”-button all [...]

In this video by one of my favorite entrepreneurs Gary Vaynerchuck, Gary talks about “star-ups”, celebrity endorsed startups that have started popping up all over the place. I find this phenomenon interesting, albeit not new, but perhaps in a slightly different way than Gary. While I agree that we’ll be seeing more of this in [...]

One of the crucial aspects of being an entrepreneur is to single out key beliefs of your company that you think will put you ahead of the curve. One of the key beliefs of Honesty is to keep our creatives as close to the end product as possible. This means that we try to design [...]