An early adopter comes in late

I didn't set out in life to be an "early adopter", but looking back, I guess I was. I was the first kid in my neighborhood to have a Schwinn Orange Crate Sting Ray and I had a Sony Walkman -- all 16 oz. of it -- a couple of days after they came into the US market. Early adopter also means that I wore a Nehru-style suit as a 10-year-old (don't ask).

Despite that stellar track record, I didn't get Twitter... until today. For me, it was a hammer looking for a nail. The nail is a virtual team that I'm working on, with colleagues 7-10 hours behind me and doing a gazillion other things. But I need their inputs and to give them a "head's up" on emerging client issues. So, I set up a new Twitter account, made it private (so only those who need to see it, see it), invited the team to Tweet and now I'm waiting to see what happens.

Maybe the Nehru suit wasn't such a bad idea.

Brilliant: When smart people are hard to understand

Seth Godin asks and answers the question: "If you're in a meeting with smart people and they start discussing a term or concept you don't understand, what do you do?" More proof of why Seth's Blog is one of the most followed.