As more details emerge in this massive scandal over employee non-poaching agreements, I can’t help but think of something I said to my brother a few years ago: If you don’t own a piece of the company you work for, you’re always getting screwed. It doesn’t matter if you’re a senior VP making 30 Million a year. You’re still getting a sucker’s share of the overall take. What Jobs and Schmidt started here was absolutely atrocious. But it’s not even remotely surprising.…

I tend to believe that the main thinking affecting investors with a negative sentiment in Apple’s long term future is one of historical perspective. Apple with their closed and vertical model lost to the more open model of Microsoft long ago. So the conventional thinking would be that both Google or Microsoft with their more open platform approach will again rise to dominance if history does repeat itself. There are, however, several things I believe are wrong with the thinking that history will repeat itself. (via TechPinions) I’ve…

The Naive Optimist, We work a 4-day week and just raised $4.75m: “We believe that smart folks can get five days of work done in four days. Simple as that.” (Via. The Naive Optimist) I applaud this mentality. We have such a skewed view of how to achieve success these days, especially in the U.S. I often think how disappointed our grandparents would be if they knew we traded the 40-hour work week they had to fight so hard to achieve for a couple of extra thousand dollars…