The Pebble and the Avalanche

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Current Revolutions in Business and Technology

by Dr. Moshe Yudkowsky,

author of The Pebble and The Avalanche: How Taking Things Apart Creates Revolutions

 

Mon, 2009-Dec-07, 10:02

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Pop Quiz in the Grocery Store

I've just read a nice quote from Craig Herbert, the CEO of Supervalu, a conglomeration of grocery store chains. In an interview in the Wall Street Journal, he said something I absolutely agree with:

"Look at three-for-$5 deals. Even if you're good at math, you have to stop and think for at least a few minutes and say, 'Oh, wait a minute, how much is that per?' We don't want you to have to bring a calculator to our stores."
I've said the same thing many times myself: "A phone call is no time for a pop quiz." You can see some of my comments on proper user interface design in this video of my latest talk at SpeechTek in New York.

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