Choose what you want
Before I can post about hybrids I need to post about selective breeding. People have been breeding plants and animals for thousands of years. Before… Read More »Choose what you want
Stuart Patience
Other people’s children
All of the greatest advances in our society have come when we’ve invested in other people’s children. Attributed to Robert Putnam That was Tim O’Reilly… Read More »Other people’s children
The valley of crappy data
Joost Wesseling from the Dutch Institute for Public Health and the Environment on the iffy quality of readings from citizen air quality measurement efforts using… Read More »The valley of crappy data
Rewriting the world
The possibilities of the future are often lying latent in the field of our vision. We can’t see them… And then suddenly we do, and… Read More »Rewriting the world
Hardware / Software
Hardware is important. Physical infrastructure like roads and the electrical grid, machines like drills, buses and computers, even your office space – all of this… Read More »Hardware / Software
Who pays? (3)
Last but not least… changing who pays for what can help you to take better care of your team. In the early years we asked… Read More »Who pays? (3)
Who pays? (2)
Shifting to a user-pays model had another significant impact on our work – we became more accountable to the people we serve, and the quality… Read More »Who pays? (2)
Who pays? (1)
Who pays for what can have a dramatic effect on your work. Infinite Demand If what you do is free, and enough people like it,… Read More »Who pays? (1)
Note to self
Writing is a great tool for sharing ideas with other people. It’s been dawning on me over the last few days that one of the… Read More »Note to self
Why you?
Imagine someone else made a product very much like yours… No. Imagine that someone else was selling exactly your product, doing your thing, only slightly… Read More »Why you?