The Labor Day Manifesto Of the Passionate Creative Worker. [Three years ago today I posted A Labor Day Manifesto for a New World. In classic Hagelian fashion it was long and complicated. With the help of a few edge collaborators (Christopher Gong, Sarah Scharf and John Seely Brown), we've managed to simplify the Manifesto into some powerful imperatives that can and should guide our daily lives. On this important day, let us reflect on what we each can do to make our work more meaningful and have greater impact. These are indeed exciting times, full of promise and potential.
We are living in a modern renaissance. On this Labor Day, we celebrate the passionate and dedicated individuals in all fields who have both led us to where we are now, and are creating and shaping the future. To commemorate Labor Day, we think of those who inspire us through their example, and rededicate ourselves to living life passionately. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. We all have the potential to become passionate creative workers. Augmented Reality: Manifest.AR, an augmented art manifesto | Beyond The Beyond.
*One might have predicted a few of these. The AR Art Manifesto “All that is Visible must grow beyond itself and extend into the Realm of the Invisible” (Tron, 1982) Augmented Reality (AR) creates Coexistent Spacial Realities, in which Anything is possible – Anywhere! The AR Future is without boundaries between the Real and the Virtual. In the AR Future we become the Media. The Safety Glass of the Display is shattered and the Physical and Virtual are united in a new In-Between Space. We are breaking down the mysterious Doors of the Impossible! In the 21st Century, Screens are no longer Borders. In the Age of the Instantaneous Virtual Collective, AR Activists aggravate and relieve the Surface Tension and Osmotic Pressure between the so-called Networked Virtual and the so-called Physical Real. Now hordes of Networked AR Creatives deploy Viral Virtual Media to overlay, then overwhelm closed Social Systems lodged in Physical Hierarchies.
Manifesto for Agile Software Development. About the GNU Project. This is the original announcement of the GNU Project, posted by Richard Stallman on September 27, 1983. The actual history of the GNU Project differs in many ways from this initial plan. For example, the beginning was delayed until January 1984. Several of the philosophical concepts of free software were not clarified until a few years later. Free Unix! Starting this Thanksgiving I am going to write a complete Unix-compatible software system called GNU (for Gnu's Not Unix), and give it away free(1) to everyone who can use it.
To begin with, GNU will be a kernel plus all the utilities needed to write and run C programs: editor, shell, C compiler, linker, assembler, and a few other things. GNU will be able to run Unix programs, but will not be identical to Unix. Who Am I? I am Richard Stallman, inventor of the original much-imitated EMACS editor, now at the Artificial Intelligence Lab at MIT.
Why I Must Write GNU How You Can Contribute For more information, contact me. Usenet: ...! The Hardware Hacker Manifesto - I, Hacker. Edit: I've decided to release this post under a CC Attributed license. Share it, copy it, edit it, whatever you feel like, just attribute it back to me. The Hardware Hacker Manifesto by Cody Brocious is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. This post is a long time in coming. For years we've been seeing an active fight against the right to utilize hardware the way the owner wishes to use it, but it wasn't until this week that it got personal, driving me to write this. Please, share this far and wide; hardware hacking is essential and we're losing ground to those who would love to see it done away with. My name is Cody and I'm a hardware hacker. It started at the age of five, taking apart a toy computer to figure out how it worked. It used to be that this was what people did: if something was wrong with a device, it was acceptable to take it apart, figure out how it worked, and fix whatever was wrong with it.
I am a hardware hacker and this is my manifesto. Guerilla Open Access Manifesto. Manifeste pour le cyberespace. Coloniser l'internet ? Civiliser "la toile" ? À l'heure des grand-messes ronflantes sur l'internet qu'il faut dompter, Yann Leroux rappelle ce qu'est internet, ce qu'il doit rester et ce qu'il faut défendre.
Manifeste. Nous, digiborigènes, constatons un état d’hostilité envers le cyberespace qui culmine avec le eG8. Nous avons transformé une province éloignée de la culture en une cité cosmopolite et vibrante, dont la richesse profite à tous. Le cyberespace n’est pas un nouvel espace à conquérir. Le cyberespace est un espace de civilisation. L’internet porte un regard égal à Kevin ou à Mark. Nous refusons le cyberespace soit transformé en un espace de surveillance. Nous refusons que les États abandonnent les protections qu’ils doivent au citoyen. Nous refusons que les États violent le droit à la vie privée dans le cyberespace. Nous refusons que l’architecture du cyberespace soit modifiée. Nous refusons que l’ancien droit d’auteur serve de modèle à tous les échanges. Défendons les. The creative badass manifesto (a work in progress)
Five Manifestos for Life. By Kirstin Butler How a numbered list can start a personal revolution. Some days everyone needs a little extra encouragement. The words or lines or colors don’t want to come, or worse, we don’t even want to sit down to create. That’s when we turn to these inspiring manifestos, any one of which is guaranteed to give our uncooperative creativity a sharp kick in the pants. We’ve long been fans of the amazing work of Frederick Terral, the creative visionary behind design studio Right Brain Terrain.
You may not be a Picasso or Mozart but you don’t have to be. We can’t imagine more sound advice. Guidelines to get you from Point A to finished product, The Cult of Done Manifesto was written by tech guru Bre Pettis (of MakerBot fame) in collaboration with writer Kio Stark in 20 minutes, “because we only had 20 minutes to get it done.” Pretending you know what you’re doing is almost the same as knowing what you are doing, so just accept that you know what you’re doing even if you don’t and do it.”
A Food Manifesto for the Future. For decades, Americans believed that we had the world’s healthiest and safest . We worried little about this diet’s effect on the environment or on the lives of the animals (or even the workers) it relies upon. Nor did we worry about its ability to endure — that is, its sustainability. That didn’t mean all was well. And we’ve come to recognize that our diet is unhealthful and unsafe. Here are some ideas — frequently discussed, but sadly not yet implemented — that would make the growing, preparation and consumption of food healthier, saner, more productive, less damaging and more enduring.
End government subsidies to processed food. I’ll expand on these issues (and more) in the future, but the essential message is this: food and everything surrounding it is a crucial matter of personal and public health, of national and global security. This column appeared in print on February 2, 2011. Manifest.AR. The Awesomeness Manifesto - Umair Haque. By Umair Haque | 2:47 PM September 16, 2009 Innovation: it’s the ultimate source of advantage, the undisputed heavyweight champion of the economic ring. Innovation is what every organization should be ruthlessly pursuing, right? Wrong. I’d like to advance a hypothesis: awesomeness is the new innovation. Let’s face it. “Innovation” feels like a relic of the industrial era. Innovation relies on obsolescence.
Innovation dries up our seedcorn. Innovation often isn’t. It’s time to ask: have the costs of innovation exceeded the benefits? A better concept, one built for a radically interdependent 21st century, is awesomeness. Ethical production. Insanely great stuff. Love. Thick value. The vast majority of companies — in my research, greater than 95% — can only create what I have termed thin value. Let’s summarize. I’ve talked to many boardrooms about awesomeness. What makes some stuff awesome and other stuff merely (yawn) innovative? You might be innovative — but are you awesome? The Great to Good Manifesto - Umair Haque.
By Umair Haque | 4:18 PM February 3, 2010 CEO: “So, I hear your forthcoming book’s kind of like Good to Great — right? That was my favorite biz book of the noughties!” UH: “Good to Great?! Dude, welcome to the 21st century. My book is the opposite: it’s more like ‘Great to Good.’”CEO: “Security!!” (Hurls $8000 pen at UH’s forehead) I exaggerate, of course, for effect. Today, as the globe struggles with an historic economic decline, it’s time for a new revolution. Pepsi, for example, is a “great” company: it’s great at mass-producing, push-distributing, mega-marketing, and hard-selling…sugar water. Going from great to good is the single most disruptive move a country, company, or person can make today. First how, then who. The Yoda Concept. We often equate “doing good” with, a la Google, passively being “not evil.” Ethical accelerators. Confront reality. As Pepsi, Microsoft, GM, Wall Street, and, well, America itself are discovering: merely being great isn’t good enough anymore.
The Smart Growth Manifesto - Umair Haque. Obama is stimulating. Davos is deliberating. C-levels are eliminating. Wall St is recriminating. Welcome to the macropocalypse: no one, it seems, can put the global economy back together again. It’s time to reboot capitalism. Here’s a suggestion for what should be at the top of agenda of every decision-maker across the economy, from Davos, to Obama, to Sand Hill Road, to the revolutionaries in tiny garages hatching tomorrow’s Googles: reconceiving growth. Why? 20th century capitalism is eating itself. Reigniting growth requires rethinking growth. 20th century growth was dumb. 21st century economies will be powered by smart growth. Here are the four pillars of smart growth – for economies, communities, and corporations: 1. 2. 3. 4. Here’s a final point — and a question. Smart economies are driven by smart growth. Capitalism 2.0 cannot be powered by growth.1.0: that’s why the race for smart growth is inevitable. Can you build a business powered by smart growth?
The Finance 2.0 Manifesto - Umair Haque. Dear G20, It’s confusing. Should you tax bankers’ bonuses, or limit their pay? Should you nationalize banks, or let public-private partnerships bid for bad assets? Do markets need morals — or just better regulation? The answer is: all may be necessary, but none are sufficient. It’s time to reconceive finance for the 21st century. Where are all the customers’ yachts? Bankers have got society, communities, and depositors by the throat. Banks don’t need to be bailed out of bad debt. Finance 1.0 has the same relationship with society as Godzilla does with cities.
Finance 1.0 isn’t fit for economics 2.0. Finance 1.0 is built on a long-obsolete set of organizing principles. Today’s bankers, investors, and traders will never build a better finance. It’s time to put Wall Street’s business as usual out of business. Here are nine paths to igniting the next financial revolution. Edge funds. Macro and microcurrencies. Social banks. Fair markets. Stakeholder communities. Whisper bullhorns. Luv, The Builders' Manifesto - Umair Haque. Dear World Leaders, This relationship isn’t working out. Its time for us to explore other government opportunities. We’ve tried to make it work. But it’s not us — it’s you (really). I’ve been thinking a lot about leadership lately.
Specifically: why, today, when a wave of crises is sweeping the globe, does leadership seem to be almost totally absent? The answer I’ve come to is, ironically enough, leadership itself. Let’s face it. Leadership was built for 20th century economics. Leaders don’t lead. Here’s the problem in a nutshell. Leadership is the art of becoming, well, a leader. Builders forge better building blocks to construct economies, polities, and societies. Who’s a Builder — and who’s just a leader? Mahatma Gandhi vs Barack Obama. Nelson Mandela vs Sarah Palin. Mohammad Yunus vs Ben Bernanke. Matt Taibbi & Nick Kristof vs Tom Friedman & Maureen Dowd. Jacqueline Novogratz vs Wall Street. Evan Williams vs Bill Gates. Elinor Ostrom vs Econ 101. How can you become one? The Nichepaper Manifesto - Umair Haque. Dear Newspaper Magnates, So you’re going to try and charge people for news yet again.
Cart, meet horse. Journalists didn’t make 20th century newspapers profitable — readers did. 20th century newspapers were never supernormally profitable because of what they wrote: it was the natural monopoly dynamics of classifieds that fueled massive margins. In the 21st century, it’s time, again for newspapers to learn how to profit with stakeholders — instead of extracting profits from them. 20th century news isn’t fit for 21st century society. A new generation of innovators is already building 21st century newspapers: nichepapers. Nichepapers are different because they have built a profound mastery of a tightly defined domain — finance, politics, even entertainment — and offer audiences deep, unwavering knowledge of it. Nichepapers aren’t a new product, service, or business model. Here are eight of the most essential: Knowledge, not news. The Sentry — Talking Points Memo. And that’s really the point. Applying the New Capitalist Manifesto to Open Government | acidlabs.
Stephen Collins Featured 6 change , culture , government 2.0 , open government , social innovation , society As a part of the research work I’m doing for my book, I’m reading radical economist, Umair Haque ’s, . In it, Haque posits a set of Laws for the 21 st Century business and describes something that, though referred to in the book, is laid out elsewhere as The Meaning Organisation . Given my deep interest not only in the business innovation Haque’s book argues for, but also in open government, I’ve been thinking about how these laws might be modified to fit a world of open government, fit to govern for the future. Certainly, government around the world operates much like the dinosaur businesses Haque argues against. So, here is my attempt at redefining into a set of . 1. 2. Ill-considered, knee-jerk reactions to negative opinion, review or actions are all around us. Quality 4. 5.
Value chains value cycles policy advantage loss advantage 6. The New Capitalist Manifesto ... Endarkment Manifesto and Green Hermeticism. Peter Lamborn Wilson’s (Hakim Bey) half-serious proposal for a political movement to uphold and propagate the ideals of Green Hermeticism: “At least half the year belongs to Endarkenment. Enlightenment is only a special case of Endarkenment-and it has nights of its own. During the day democracy waxes, indiscriminately illuminating all and sundry. But shadowless noon belongs to Pan. And night imposes a ‘radical aristocracy’ in which things shine solely by their own luminescence, or not at all.
Obfuscatory, reactionary and superstitious, Endarkenment offers jobs for trolls and sylphs, witches and warlocks. Electricity banished shadows-but shadows are ‘shades,’ souls, the souls of light itself. Superstitions may be untrue but based on deeper truth-that earth is a living being. (via Arthur Magazine) (Excerpt from “Green Hermeticism” and “Endarkment Manifesto” via Arthur pdf: pt 1-pg 11) RIP!: A remix manifesto. DIGITAL MAOISM: The Hazards of the New Online Collectivism By Jaron Lanier. ONE HALF A MANIFESTO. REGARDS SUR LE NUMERIQUE: Blog - Comment remettre l'homme au centre de la technologie : le manifeste de Jaron Lanier RSLNmag est édité par Microsoft et se consacre à l’analyse et au décryptage du monde numérique.. Anti Design Festival | ADF Manifesto. Conditional Design - Conditional Design. The Evolutionary Manifesto. The Generation M Manifesto - Umair Haque. A Short Manifesto on the Future of Attention. Information Visualization Manifesto.
Kyoto Design Declaration 2008 — AIGA | the professional association for design. 1000 Words: A Manifesto for Sustainability in Design. Owner's Manifesto. Bre Pettis | I Make Things - Bre Pettis Blog - The Cult of Done Manifesto. Free Font Manifesto. Eye | feature. A Metathinking Manifesto. Max bruinsma. 100+ Years of Design Manifestos -- Social Design Notes. Bruce Mau Design. We're on a mission to spread important ideas and change minds.
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