• Mar 21 2008
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Come See me Speak at the Churchill Club

This Wednesday, I’ll be participating in a really interesting panel discussion entitled “Silicon Valley Fights Back Against the (Information) Monster it Created”. The panel is moderated by Matt Richtel (New York Times Correspondent). Here’s the description:

Intel launched no email Fridays. So did US Cellular. Some managers at Genentech urge employees to check email only twice a day. The Valley and its denizens are trying to combat a problem of their own making: information overload. Everyone knows the issue. The very tools spurring your productivity are also undermining it. This is not merely a question of personal organization. Information overload is spawning industries. New businesses and new products are being created from the likes of Microsoft and Google, and numerous start-ups, too, to help people manage and mute the cacophony and onslaught of information. The question: what can you do to avoid becoming overwhelmed? Even further, can you capitalize or build or enhance your business around helping others to regain productivity? Or have we created a monster here destined to eat us alive (please forgive the hyperbole…we wrote the end quickly because we have incoming email and need to get to it right away).

- Registration: 06:00 PM
- Buffet: 06:00 PM
- Program: 07:00 PM

Location:
Crowne Plaza Cabana Hotel
4290 El Camino Real
Palo Alto, CA

You can register for the event here. I have two guest invites– so holler if you’d like to go.

  • http://www.skmurphy.com/ Sean Murphy

    Jonathan Spira spoke more than 50% of the time and it was based on either “self-report surveys” or “anecdotal evidence.” You have real data based on an independent non-intrusive mechanism (aside from whatever Hawthorn effect may arise from the fact that you know you are being monitored). You should be more direct in reporting what you’ve learned. It’s very difficult to measure flow because it’s so absorbing (the act of trying to record it pulls you out flow typically in “timer based” reporting schemes). You have an opportunity for much more accurate numbers and therefore more accurate inferences and analysis based on real behavior (at the computer). This strikes me as an enormous opportunity and something you should address more directly next time you speak.

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