Comments for Simone Brunozzi

Comment on Travels of a Technology Evangelist by d

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 03:54:24 +0000

Ciao Simone! Despite your super busy schedule, I am very proud, happy and lucky to have the opportunity to have met you. Good luck and all the best to your future endeavours!

Comment on Letter to a Technology Evangelist by Ooj

Ooj — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 18:45:40 +0000

woohoo! loved the article, great work Simone, I’m in the process of donning the ever coveted evangelistic cape for the very first time and must say this proved to be a fascinating read. Have followed the work of Guy Kawasaki and the greats for some time now and am pleased to note that you too have now graced the pages of my journal and ‘must read’ list. Keep doing what you’re doing! Look forward to rubbing shoulders with you in the not too distant future!

Ooj :)

Ps. If any one else has any other handy articles or posts, put em’ up put em’ up! Thanks :D

Comment on Meritocracy by Michele Vitale

Michele Vitale — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 12:28:27 +0000

Simone, very nice post indeed. It makes you think.
But difficult to understand for those who had to remain in Italy for that ‘something else’.
Because here in Italy when you get your degree with full marks, you get your MBA, you’re brilliant, you’re are a hardworker etc. etc. you must consider yourself lucky when such things are seen as components of your “merit”, rather than as a “side dish” of your being son (or friend) of a powerful Mr Somebody.
But you already know it, I assume.

Comment on Travels of a Technology Evangelist by Janakiram MSV

Janakiram MSV — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 07:28:30 +0000

Reminds me of my early evangelism days of 2003 :) I agree it is a lot of fun! The satisfaction of showing value to the audience will offset the stress and the effort. Be on the move Simon, the Cloud Evangelist!

Comment on More iPhone, more sex by Matteo

Matteo — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 12:37:51 +0000

Uh… there’s an app for that?!?

Comment on More iPhone, more sex by Dmytrii Nagirniak

Dmytrii Nagirniak — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 04:37:20 +0000

The actual research actually talks about “data on the number of sexual partners” but not about how much sex they have.

So strictly speaking the only conclusion we can make is that people using iPhones have more partners. That’s it.

Now we can play around that research by saying they either have more sex or can’t find a partner in their 30th :)

Comment on Meritocracy by Vincenzo

Vincenzo — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 09:28:46 +0000

Hi Simone
after quite a long you wrote this post I found this interesting article on NYT which actually support your thesis in a different way:
http://douthat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/19/the-trouble-with-meritocracy/

I like when the author says:

It’s not enough to simply take the smartest kids and make them smarter. What’s just as important is teaching these young people to seek out strangers, to resist the tug of self-similarity and homogenization.

Enjoy
:)

Comment on Meritocracy by Des Walsh

Des Walsh — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 00:49:15 +0000

Fascinating discussion.

I spent a long time in the public service and saw the value and the limitations of meritocracy: some awful dunderheads rose inexorably through the system while their smarter peers got impatient and went where they could achieve something and not lose their souls.

I used to think nepotism was a Bad Thing. Then once I mentioned to a colleague who owned an advertising agency that I had a niece who was looking for a job. Tell her to get in touch, he said. Then he said, smiling and not lowering his voice even though (because?) we were in a public place and both well known there “I *believe* in nepotism. Who wants to work with people they don’t know?”. There is a sub-thread there: if he hired her and it did not work out, I would – as the Chinese say – lose face, so my niece would have extra motivation to do well, which would be good for his business etc etc.

May I suggest there is a third thing, somewhere between meritocracy and nepotism/cronyism – which if I had to I might call something like reputocracy?

That’s about what goes on all over the world, hiring someone or opening a business discussion with someone because someone you know says “the man/woman you need to meet is…”

It’s a lot about what LinkedIn provides. Reputation. Simone thinks this woman is the right person to make my team work, and I trust Simone’s judgement and know he has great experience so I’d be mad not to interview her.

Comment on Ancient wisdom by Daniele

Daniele — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 15:49:33 +0000

Leggo tra le righe un accenno velato di incazzatura :)

Ciao caro, come stai?

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day.
Teach a man to fish cosí ve fate na bella frittura insieme!

Daniele Omodepanza

Un abbraccio.

Comment on Meritocracy by Diego DID

Diego DID — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 09:29:03 +0000

Hi Simone,

it is a long time without getting in touch with news, I promise to write you further.

About your post, we could talk about “relative meritocracy”: I think both, Sergey and you, have taken profits by meritocracy, just on different scale range. More, it is easy and comforting take a Gates or a Brin as touchstone: what about the young and inspired hardworking burkinabé and his achievements? I think it would complain as you, rightly, about the number of computers… but not only.

Finally, and in spite of this, I largely agree with you. But another Assisi citizen had his personal Mr Brin, long time before you; and his Mr. Brin said that it is not useful to search power, richness and treasure on this Earth. So, why would you like to find meritocracy? It si not necessary to believe to this “other” Mr. Brin, but it would be useful to integrate this concept in the reflection.