Decision Technologies: Currencies and the Social Contract. The contention of this brief post is a simple one: That at root all currencies are political and inherently imperfect technologies for representation of social energy.
And that a viable social contract and a viable currency are both dependent on a very difficult to define, but critical metric: the fairness consensus. All that you see as a civilization is a product of individual and collective decisions in an intricate complex/chaotic dance operating within the constraints of natural law, resources and chance. ALL OF IT! And the interplay of all those decisions... which really just comes down to a bunch of people doing whatever it is they do for whatever reasons they're doing it... I'll call social energy for the time being at least. Social Energy: individual and collective decisions operating within the limits of available resources and natural law which (quite literally) result in the product you see as a civilization. E.g. There is no perfect solution here that I see... P.S. Patterns of Emergent Cities: 1. The Founder. This is the first in a series of posts describing that help .
These pattern descriptions are chiefly informed by my observations of social dynamics in all kinds of creative initiatives. The patterns are meant to be used as templates to guide anyone who is going down the path of getting something like an emergent city up and going. Internalizing the patterns - making them yours - will enable you to see how and when they map to your particular situation, and make them manifest in your projects. Read this while thinking of a project close to your heart, something that deserves to exist, and gently let yourself slip into the pattern. Just try it on for size... Where others saw nothing but forests and streams, Founders of yore saw building materials, energy sources, and waterways. Where others see nothing but people, and things, you, the Founder, see possibility. Some things must be seen to be believed; but the emergent City is one of those things that must be believed to be seen.
ConnectivismEducationLearning - Connectivism and Connective Knowledge 2011. Knowledge Workers & The Commons – A Reflection. I didn’t expect that I'd learn anything about my identity during my Year of Living Shareably.
I thought I’d just learn new skills, get new insights about sharing, and meet new people. I wasn’t expecting to learn about my place in the world. Wrong. As I noted in my post about the International Commons Conference in Berlin last October, the commons movement brings together folks from many countries, cultures, and political orientations. We all value the commons as a solution to the triple crises of environment, economy, and social division but come to it from many perspectives. Actors map. Motivation matrix. Yes, The Khan Academy IS the Future of Education (video. Salman Khan has taken a simple idea, YouTube videos that explain math, and transformed it into the future of education.
I’m just going to come out and say it: the Khan Academy is the best thing that has happened to education since Socrates. The brainchild of Salman Khan, the Khan Academy became famous by teaching simple math lessons for free through over 2000 YouTube videos. Now, after millions in donations and an expansion of the company, the academy is so much more. The website for the Khan Academy already had exercises you could use to test your understanding of the videos you just watched, but in the past few weeks the website has exploded with wonderful new features. You can create a profile for the site simply by logging in through Google or Facebook.
Sal Khan does a very thorough job of explaining the ways in which the Khan Academy website takes its 2000 videos and expands them into a complete set of lessons, test exercises, and evaluations. And do it all for free. Free! About plural rationalities and closed hegemonies. Social Media Dashboard for Teams using Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin.
Creativity management : Best practices and the case of open innovation. In his book Manager la créativité (French), Thomas Paris analyzes how companies manage creativity.
Some of them evolve in creative industries (Hermès, Pixar…), which means that creativity is the main resource to create value ; others leverage creativity for innovation purposes (Nintendo, Renault…). After having analyzed various examples of creativity management, Paris admits that -in some case- companies would gain getting ideas from outside of the organization. Steve Jobs took an awfull lot of risks when he bought Pixar in 1986. During the two first years, he paid the 100 employees with his private funds… but it was worth it ! Pixar has produced major blockbusters like Toy Story (1995), Finding Nemo (2003) and Ratatouille (2007).
A very different case is that of the French fashion label Hermès. The 170-year old brand innovated by designing the interior of a Bugatti Veyron and a Eurocopter EC135. The Avantime was a commercial failure for Renault. OpenKollab Project Matching. Is Your Coworking Space Sending Mixed Messages About The Community?