Global Nerdy

…the Samsung copier.

I captioned this picture after finding it and being reminded of Weinberg’s Second Law: 

If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.

And then I thought: Didn’t he have some clever quips about consulting? A little searching found these gems I’d read about and forgotten:

Ah, Weinberg’s Laws of Consulting, from his 1985 book, The Secrets of Consulting:

• There’s always a problem, with the corollary “Never promise more than 10% improvement”
• It’s always a people problem, with the corollary “Whatever they’re doing, advise them to do something else”
• They’re paying you by the hour, not the solution, with the corollary “You’ll never accomplish anything if you care who gets credit”

For more of Jerry Weinberg’s wisdom on consulting (and writing, too!), check out his Secrets of Writing and Consulting blog.

Click the chart to see it at full size.
Feel free to use it in your articles and presentations; just credit us!

We’ve already hit the point where there are about as many mobile subscriptions as there are people. In Internet Trends 2014, Mary Meeker’s presentation for the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers, each new generation of computing carries ten times the installed base of the previous one. With desktop internet having reached one billion users and the current growth of mobile, the pattern looks like it will hold true, giving mobile 10 billion units/users.

Meeker’s presentation is a 164-slide gold mine of information and insight into the present and future of mobility. If you have anything at all to do with mobile tech, you’ll want to at least give it a quick read. We’re going to be consulting it regularly for the next little while, and doing things like taking this chart…

Click the graphic to read the report.

…and sprucing it up into the one at the top of this article.

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Want to see more of our infographics? Keep an eye on our Pinterest page, which we’re using as a library for them. And yes, because we want to spread the knowledge, you can use our infographics in your own articles and presentations — just credit us.

Mobility 101 is our series of videos that covers various aspects of enterprise mobility: mobile technology, applications, services, and management. Over the next several weeks, we’ll be post a new video explaining some part of business mobility. We know that the last thing that you want to do is sit through another long, boring presentation, so we’ve made sure that every video is ten minutes or shorter and not like most of the stultifying slide decks you’ve had to suffer through. We’ve worked to make them entertaining as well as educational.

The first video is intro to MMS — what some call “Managed Mobility Services” and others call “Mobility Managed Services”. No matter what you call it, we’ll explain what it is, why businesses need it, and what its key components are. It’s 8 minutes, 18 seconds long, and we think you’ll like it:

In case you were wondering, that’s Yours Truly as the narrator.

All our videos can be found on GSG’s YouTube channel, and we’re going to post videos there often! The easy-to-remember URL for our channel is .

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Of all the geek T-shirts I saw at Ignite Tampa Bay 2014 last Thursday, “Data is the New Bacon” was my favourite. Apparently it’s Cloudera swag.