The soft option
Your desire to be generous to others is a great motivator to excellence: if you’re serious about ensuring that the externalities of your project are… Read More »The soft option
creating value
Externalities
We’re familiar with the externalities of industrial production and consumption. They’re fairly predictable, and often visible. Even air pollution, the silent killer, is usually visible… Read More »Externalities
W. Brian Arthur on combinatorial innovation
The idea … that we have is that there’s some genius in an attic… cooking up technology and coming up with inventions. But it started… Read More »W. Brian Arthur on combinatorial innovation
Strategy: from ideas to value propositions to business models
Ideas are easy. Ideas are free, they’re everywhere. The hard thing is turning ideas into value propositions that customers want, and business models that can… Read More »Strategy: from ideas to value propositions to business models
Old year’s resolutions
What can you tick off already? Good work on those. What do you need to quit – stop doing, stop trying to do, draw a… Read More »Old year’s resolutions
Deep literacy: Kevin Kelly on more than reading
… producing books with ease on Gutenberg’s press did not fully unleash text. Real literacy also required a long list of innovations and techniques that… Read More »Deep literacy: Kevin Kelly on more than reading
Stability: Burke and incremental change
Steve Jobs is right about changing the world. And here’s Edmund Burke with a counterpoint – for society read ‘society’, but also, ‘family’, and ‘your… Read More »Stability: Burke and incremental change
In their hands
Make something people can use. Put it in their hands. See what happens. If they’re eager to pay – attention, time, money – you’re onto… Read More »In their hands
Network opportunities
One telephone – in the whole world – is useless. Who would you call? The more telephones there are – and especially the more telephones… Read More »Network opportunities
GNU-GPL – a base of code
Richard Stallman famously wrote the GNU GPL, which is a license based on copy-left, not copyright. His position is the freedom to work with computers… Read More »GNU-GPL – a base of code
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