Is it because as a leader in a space I have this product and with this new idea tagged on to it, my leadership is unthreatened. — Do I feel I’m the leader without ever having to say that my leadership maybe fading, or in jeopardy over time.

Then of course, the fools who follow them.

The Conversion fallacy maybe the biggest lesson to learn in looking back.

Diverge to the future. The quiet and not often written about success principle of all times recorded. Except maybe the clock radio.

Lots of hit and lots of misses in that segment, but a transcript of that with specific company names obscured would still be fairly valid today.

Be careful what you wish for don’t they say? I love having a “brick and mortar” bookstore a mere 30 miles away that I can browse through lots of books I never knew existed, but I do most of my purchasing these days from Amazon by doing string searches for things I know are out there somewhere (but would probably never find in one of those physical stores). I fear for the future of these physical stores though, and as they become more “specialty” in nature their situated gets even more precarious.

Names have changed, but there are still clustering points (Yahoo and AOL diminished, Google, Facebook and others ascending). I know feed readers are very popular and very useful to many Internet users, but among people I know personally (as an ex-techie in rural America) nobody knows what a feed reader is, must less how to use one.

The Internet (and I have no idea what the accepted percentage of homes having a permanent Internet connection is) has added a whole new list of complexities to an already complex lifestyle that we moderns lead, and net-enabled cell phones and netbooks promise to make matters worse (or better depending on your point of view).

We certainly live in interesting times.