{"id":4102,"date":"2012-05-24T00:23:06","date_gmt":"2012-05-24T04:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=4102"},"modified":"2012-05-24T00:23:06","modified_gmt":"2012-05-24T04:23:06","slug":"wednesday-night-essential","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2012\/05\/24\/wednesday-night-essential\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday night &#8211; essential"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, aboard my flight home dafter an hour an a half delay.. I won&#8217;t get home until after 1.. A long but fruitful couple of days. Today woke to the gentle rocking of the boat.. Showered and got on the road.. A little late which exposed me to what NYC traffic can really be like I had left an  hour an a half for the 40 minute drive and took an hour .. Not too bad. I spent the entire day at our Watson lab which is always fun and humbling . So many smart people walking  the  halls. I spent every second of today either meeting with folks or in phone meetings.. Didn&#8217;t even get time to eat.. But I  out knowing more than  I went in with, so I was happy.<br \/>\n    One of the high pouts of the day was an odd but fun webcasted  panel session with 3 of my friends.. My friends weren&#8217;t the (only) odd part of it.. It was that the 4 of us were sitting in Chris at the front of a large but entirely empty auditorium.  The topic was a fun one.. We were talking about what it takes for a company to be &#8216;essential&#8217;. Its an interesting topic .. And a hard one to pin down.. Afterall, It&#8217;s not something you can say about yourself..  essential is in the minds of the beholders  Still, it was fun to toss some ideas back and forth with some old friends.. <\/p>\n<p>So&#8230;.What do you all think makes a company essential ? What companies do you think are essential ? What problems would a company have to solve to be considered essential ?<br \/>\nId Like to hear what you think..<\/p>\n<p>Oh.. We&#8217;re landing.. More tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Nite all, nite Sam<br \/>\n-me<\/p>\n<p>Now, my company is not saying that we are essential .. We recognize that Thats  something other folks have to say about you.. But.. We were discussing what it would it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, aboard my flight home dafter an hour an a half delay.. I won&#8217;t get home until after 1.. A long but fruitful couple of days. Today woke to the gentle rocking of the boat.. Showered and got on the road.. A little late which exposed me to what NYC traffic can really be like &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2012\/05\/24\/wednesday-night-essential\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wednesday night &#8211; essential<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[502],"class_list":["post-4102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-essential"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4103,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4102\/revisions\/4103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}