August 11, 2010 – 12:01 am
As profiled on Worldchanging in November 2009, future-focused conference organization PopTech has partnered with Nike to convene a year-long “innovation journey” on new green materials and industrial processes. Their first event, the Ecomaterials Lab, occurred last week. About PopTech Labs: PopTech is bringing together a network of innovators and decision-makers, brilliant and unconventional, to explore [...]
Lots of great reading material today… Economist.com: In Search of Serendipity EVERY year, hordes of free spirits gather in the Nevada desert to “breathe art”, feel at one with the cosmos and sample the delights of Bianca’s Smut Shack. The Burning Man festival is radically anti-capitalist, with a strict ban on commerce and an emphasis [...]
Recap of a fantastic-sounding Long Now talk, reprinted in full from my inbox and the Long Now blog. The concepts Frank Gavin introduces in his talk “Five Ways to Use History Well” are not just useful in analyzing the past, but are critical for interpreting the present. Why do policy makers and historians shun each [...]
Great story in the NYT about Bell Telephone in the 1950s launching a liberal arts-oriented learning program to its high potential employees: The Learning Knights of Bell Telephone The sociologist E. Digby Baltzell explained the Bell leaders’ concerns in an article published in Harper’s magazine in 1955: “A well-trained man knows how to answer questions, [...]
When Seth Godin announced a series of reader meetups oriented around his new book, Linchpin, I decided right away to organize the Vancouver event. Linchpin’s themes of overcoming internal resistance and bringing a sense of art into one’s work have resonated with me as I have developed RedRovr, and I looked forward to meeting others [...]
January 27, 2010 – 12:58 pm
As a former management consultant at a firm that specialized in scenario planning, I love reading the sweeping statements and predictions people have made that have turned out to be wildly wrong. “I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.” – Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943 “There is no reason anyone [...]
December 15, 2009 – 12:43 pm
In the last week I finished both my MBA program and Infinite Jest. The former took longer than the latter, but seriously not by much! I’ve been stockpiling a list of reading to explore once I finished. There are a lot of inspiring people out there — can’t wait to dive into this as I [...]
