Paul Jacobson

Category: Mindsets

  • Diplomat Magazine's undiplomatic cold calling

    I just received an unsolicited call from the local marketing manager of Diplomat Magazine (I think that is who he was and where he works – he wasn’t very clear on the phone). He gave me a pitch about how the magazine goes out to diplomats and he would like to do something with my…

  • A day with smart glass envisioned by Corning

    https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL363989F7BCF53A36 This Corning concept video displays a possible technological future to the Microsoft series not too long ago. Its a world I could be very comfortable in where devices made from smart, tough glass take our current ability to engage with our world and each other even further. The great this about all these glass…

  • Getting screwed by over the counter medication

    We realised that we have just hit our medical aid self-payment gap all of 2 and a half months into the year. It sounded completely wrong so we checked our records and it turns out a substantial portion of the amounts pharmacists submitted to Discovery was for over the counter medication which included our baby’s…

  • Music to tune the savage beast

    I just had an interesting discussion with Vincent Hofmann and Roger Saner about work habits and listening to music. They were describing the albums they listen to (or, in Roger’s case, specific songs, when working. I was telling them about my tendency to listen to the Batman soundtracks (Batman Begins and The Dark Knight) or…

  • A Dis-Chem nurse hurt my little girl and didn't seem to care

    We had an awful experience this week with Dis-Chem‘s nurse in the Norwood Mall. Gina took our little girl, Faith, to the clinic there for her 12 week shots. As I understand it (Update: take a look at Gina’s post for her perspective and thoughts), the shots include one in each thigh and some polio…

  • iPad prices cut and boy was I wrong about Core

    David Greenway pointed me to an article on TechCentral titled “Core Group slashes iPad prices” a little earlier today. This article comes soon after I had a discussion with a couple people on Twitter about the iPad 2 and Core’s possible approach to its iPad 1 sales so soon after it started selling them in…

  • I just received a little gift of tea from the awesome @hover team care of teabox.co.za

  • This is one reason BitTorrent is so important

    Big Media portrays BitTorrent as a den of thieves and other undesirables whose only desire is to share content illegally rather than address a dying business model. BitTorrent is used for illegal content sharing, for sure, but there are very legitimate and important uses for BitTorrent include the dissemination of open source software like Ubuntu…