“Growth like this is hard to get one’s mind around. Not only are downloads increasing, but the rate of increase is increasing.”

His chart where he compares app downloads to music downloads in the iTunes store helps. The iTunes store became the biggest music retailer in less than 5 years after initially opening, displacing Best Buy and Wal-mart. Note the speed of getting to 10 billion downloads:

Personally, I have 223* apps in iTunes, and there are three iOS devices in our house. Doing the math, I get 74 app downloads per device.

* After a one-time attempt to vainly delete the unused ones.

Mychael Nygard analyzes the probability that a critical meeting with 3 people will be deferred till next week in Can you make that meeting?

Turns out that if they’re each 75% utilized, then there’s only a 15% chance they can schedule a one hour meeting this week.

Wiki on the Technology Adoption Lifecycle in terms of farm technology:

• innovators – had larger farms, were more educated, more prosperous and more risk-oriented
• early adopters – younger, more educated, tended to be community leaders
• early majority – more conservative but open to new ideas, active in community and influence to neighbours
• late majority – older, less educated, fairly conservative and less socially active
• laggards – very conservative, had small farms and capital, oldest and least educated

Where are you on this scale? Your company?

While I’m talking about weather, I’ve discovered that the National Weather Service has a hourly forecast page. Pretty pictures and useful info too!

1. Why are we doing this?
2. What problem are we solving?
3. Is this actually useful?
4. Are we adding value?
5. Will this change behavior?
6. Is there an easier way?
7. What’s the opportunity cost?
8. Is it really worth it?

More on this here.