If you're an HP engineer working on webOS, given the commitment level your execs have to that platform, why wouldn't you jump ship? Startups, Apple, Google, Facebook, even Microsoft, may benefit in terms of human talent.

Thanks! They got written about in the NY Times :-)

Sounds like a good A/B test.

I was interviewed (and quoted) by the NY Times reporter who wrote this article. He had read my earlier essay on the topic, The Coming Digital Presidency: http://mathoda.com/archives/189

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the best selling book is currently Mankiw's Principle of Economics (Amazon: http://tinyurl.com/6euszg). i highly recommend his blog too (http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/)