A nice article on Apple stores. I recently had the chance to visit the Apple store in Bangalore with Aarthi and Deepak and I was blown away by the experience. That was the first time I had actually used a Mac and the whole experience was amazing. Very rarely do you feel good about using computers and software - but every moment I spent inside that store, I felt good. That's definitely saying something
http://adaptivepath.com/publications/essays/archives/000331.php
This comment from Bill Gates really resonated with me. I'm not very different from him - just a question of a few billion dollars :-)
..I'm a technologist. My brain is wired to think about software and how it should work. It's kind of my one shot. I'm not a businessman and most times I don't even know what it means to be a businessman. If you've got this one thing you do that is your passion, that's really the only thing at which you have a shot of being world class...
http://jeffmaurone.typepad.com/metanoya/2004/07/dinner_on_the_s.html