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It is very good that Venkat(author) is introducing all these words and giving them solid definitions. It brings conversation to this new plane because we now ha

• Periodic 17y ago
  Very often a lot of management posts tend to be fairly short and be very heavy on jargon. It makes it hard for those who haven't been following the field for a while to follow along. I also like the way he actually explains the connections to other books and posts when appropriate instead of just referencing them and assuming they have been read as I've seen some other authors do.
• netcan 17y ago
  Dealing in paradigms this way is definitely a higher skill. Creating this much vocabulary, with this much subtlety is very difficult. You are automatically eliminating random access. All this vocabulary is a huge overhead, you need to make it worthwhile. Compare this to what someone like Seth Godin (who, I actually like). He creates one word per book. If you are writing books or blogs or other things that people read by choice, you are very limited in how much you can do here. It's like adding equations to a pop-science book. Formal courses (EG at universities) can force you to understand new vocab (or equations) and build on that knowledge. The problem is that this means they don't need to be sparing. Venkat doesn't have that kind of privilege. The only way he can make you do hard things is by making it pay. Worth a careful read is one hell of a compliment.