Musings

Network Innovation – Why I Work in a Startup

Posted by Burgher Jon
/ July 16, 2011 / Leave a comment

I often get asked why I insist on being involved in startups eventhough my skill set lends itself better to large companies. The answer is that I love innovation, making something where nothing existed before and big companies are just naturally bad at it; over the rest of the post...
Home Sweet Home

Posted by Burgher Jon
/ May 31, 2011 / Leave a comment

If there are typos in this post I apologize I am currently hurdling south on I75 towards Pittsburgh and typing with my thumbs. I have been away from the Burgh for the past two weeks for a combination of fun and work trips that’s taken me from Switzerland to Vegas...
Saturday Musings: Rapture Obsession

Posted by Burgher Jon
/ May 21, 2011 / Leave a comment

So some idiot put together some stupid stuff in the bible and managed to predict the rapture today. To me, this isn’t news, If I had a nickel for every time I heard when the world was going to end I’d be rich. The question to me, is WHY would...
Sunday Musings – Life is too Short to Live With Regret, Life is too Long to Live Without Purpose

Posted by Burgher Jon
/ February 27, 2011 / 2 Comments

Typically on Sunday’s I run a post where I collect all of my tweets from the week and include a trivial fact about Sauerkraut. Today, I’m going to run a musings post (one that’s about a subject a little bigger than this blog normally covers) instead of Sauerkraut because with...
Saturday Musings: Watson, Jeapordy and Singularity

Posted by Burgher Jon
/ February 20, 2011 / Leave a comment

> I have been trying to get back in the habit of doing these Saturday Musings posts where I take some time to think of an issue that’s a little bit bigger than (though often related to) the worlds of IT, startups and Pittsburgh. I missed it yesterday because I...
Saturday Musings: Daniel Pink, SIMON Baron-Cohen and Secret Agent L

Posted by Burgher Jon
/ February 5, 2011 / 1 Comment

Warning: This post is long and related only tangentially to the main themes of this blog; I mainly wrote it to organize my thoughts on some issues I’ve been pondering the last couple weeks. However, if psychology, social theory, gender differences and self-improvement are interesting to you, you may enjoy...
Saturday Musings: Evaluating Your Purpose

Posted by Burgher Jon
/ January 29, 2011 / 2 Comments

Not everyone has a purpose, an overarching goal of their lives, this post is for those who do. If I’ve learned one thing over the last few years that if you don’t define your purpose and review it regularly it has a tendency to change in ways you didn’t intend...
When it Comes to Our Time: Google Giveth, Google Taketh Away

Posted by Burgher Jon
/ September 13, 2010 / Leave a comment

I noted an interesting little story sprint across Tech Crunch last week. It seems one of Google’s engineers has speculated that Google Instant (the product that loads results as soon as you start typing) will save 350 million hours per year. That statistic is based on hundreds of millions of...
Campaign Regulation Around Social Media

Posted by Burgher Jon
/ August 13, 2010 / Leave a comment

As the campaign for Governor (and others) marches toward an election, I came across an interesting thought. How/should social media be handled for elections? On the one hand, a Twitter account or a Facebook page is a personal representation of the user and that user should be allowed to promote...
Saturday Musings: Don’t Make Gay Marriage Legal, Abolish Heterosexual Marriage

Posted by Burgher Jon
/ August 7, 2010 / 1 Comment

This blog is not typically (at least over the last 8 months or so) a political platform, but since it’s saturday and I frequently go a little off topic on saturdays, I think I’m going to have a quick political discussion. If you’re not a fan, come back tomorrow for...