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Some of us enjoy taking our cues from a boss in an office. Others like Chris Guillebeau, author of The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future , published on May 8th, favor a different approach. The 34-year-old high school drop out--he did manage to squeeze out a master’s in International Studies--just wasn’t a great employee.
Learn From Unconventional Entrepreneurs: Help Others And Do What You Love
Open Design Now | Why design cannot remain exclusive
Design is undergoing a revolution. Technology is empowering more people to create and disseminate designs, and professionals and enthusiasts are using it to share their work with the world. Open design is changing everything from furniture to how designers make a living. Open Design Now: Why Design Cannot Remain Exclusive surveys this emerging field for the first time. Insiders including John Thackara, Droog Design’s Renny Ramakers and Bre Pettis look at what’s driving open design and where it’s going. They examine new business models and issues of copyright, sustainability and social critique.
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The Fun Theory
The winning idea of the fun theory award, submitted by Kevin Richardson, USA. Can we get more people to obey the speed limit by making it fun to do? This was the question Kevin’s idea answered and it was so good that Volkswagen, together with The Swedish National Society for Road Safety, actually made this innovative idea a reality in Stockholm, Sweden.BCI-biomimicry - Resources
Giles Hutchins: Atos Origin Creating the vital link between commercial operations and biomimicry insights. How business shaped by nature embeds sustainability into the organisational DNA.
In my meanderings yesterday, I happened across this interesting post on Noah Brier's blog. Here he mentioned "the strength of weak ties" in relation to social media (and a link to a PDF ). I was fascinated immediately by the title and wanted to learn more. Interestingly enough, this must be a promiscuous idea, as I had already written a draft on this exact topic some weeks ago but didn't realise it until I did a picture search for "granovetter diagrams".
The Strength of Social Media's Weak Ties - Servant of Chaos
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This report investigates the modelling of an organisation population of which knowledge-intensive service organisations form an important part. A conceptual model of the behaviour and development of an organisation population is constructed based on three overlapping theoretical bases, namely complexity, evolutionary economics and business ecosystem. This research is conducted in an explorative manner as a literature review and conceptual analysis. The conceptual model constructed in this research emphasises the dynamics that follow on the one hand from conscious choice and limited knowledge of an individual organisation and on the other hand from the interconnectedness and feedback loops of an organisation population. Conscious choice, limited knowledge, interconnectedness and feedback loops result in a nondeterministic, nonlinear and unpredictable future constructed by the organisations.Finalmente la casa editrice Adelphi, che già in passato si è dimostrata particolarmente sensibile ai temi proposti dal cosmologo Barrow (è possibile trovare nel catlogo Adelphi altri suoi titoli dal "sapore" più o meno antropico come , e ), affronta l'impresa che di sicuro ha un forte valore storico. Infatti la sua pubblicazione costituisce uno degli ultimi, ma forse ancora possibili, casi di culturale che, in quanto tale, guida l'ardito lettore attraverso tutti gli aspetti più importanti del nostro sapere rivisitati alla luce di questo principio. Un'operazione senz'altro onesta in quanto, se di paradigma si tratta, deve comunque risultare applicabile all'astrofisica, alla biologia, alla meccanica quantistica, per citare solo alcuni degli ambiti con i quali si sono misurati gli autori fra le pagine del libro, nel tentativo di mostrare la consistenza di una visione del mondo che tenta di restituire all'uomo una posizione centrale nel progetto cosmico.
Il principio antropico - torinoscienza.it
Cities and their influence on citizens’ behavior, community, and culture is top of mind for more than the usual suspects: urban planners and city hall officials. Right now designers, technologists, hacktivists, and journalists are all exploring how the urban environment is going to change in coming years, as the megapolis becomes more of a reality. As my colleague, Creative Director Scott Nazarian, states in his article in our upcoming print issue of design mind , “Cities challenge us to manage their many networks, all of which must be managed or facilitated by both people and automated systems.” So, who are the people and organizations rethinking our cities?
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Laureatosi in Scienze Matematiche all'Università di Durham , ha conseguito il dottorato in astrofisica all' Università di Oxford nel 1977 , specializzandosi quindi a Berkeley . Autore di centinaia di articoli e di decine di saggi tradotti in ventotto lingue è considerato uno dei maggiori esperti al mondo della moderna ricerca cosmologica . Vicino alle tesi di Roger Penrose e Paul Davies riguardo al rapporto tra universo e coscienza , Barrow ha esplorato a fondo alcune delle questioni più spigolose della cosmologia contemporanea contribuendo a sfatare molti tabù degli scienziati in questo campo: il concetto di infinito , la Teoria del tutto , il destino dell'universo e la sua origine, i particolari rapporti numerici che stanno alla base del cosmo e della vita umana. Circa quest'ultimo punto, Barrow, con il suo fondamentale lavoro Il principio antropico , ne ha realizzato la prima completa teorizzazione, e sempre più spesso se ne discute in filosofia e teologia .
John David Barrow - Wikipedia
Da Wikipedia, l'enciclopedia libera. « Ritengo che la cosa più misericordiosa al mondo sia l'incapacità della mente umana a mettere in correlazione tutti i suoi contenuti. Viviamo su una placida isola di ignoranza nel mezzo del nero mare dell'infinito, e non era destino che navigassimo lontano.
Teoria del tutto - Wikipedia
Article by H. P. Blavatsky A FEW years back a very interesting controversy raged between several scientists of reputation. Some of these held that spontaneous generation was a fact in nature, whilst others proved the contrary; to the effect that, as far as experiments went, there was found to be biogenesis, or generation of life from previously existing life, and never the production of any form of life from non-living matter.
Theosophy article: "The Life Principle" by Blavatsky
Anthropic principle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In astrophysics and cosmology , the anthropic principle is the philosophical argument that observations of the physical Universe must be compatible with the conscious life that observes it. Some proponents of the argument reason that it explains why the Universe has the age and the fundamental physical constants necessary to accommodate conscious life. As a result, they believe that the fact is unremarkable that the universe's fundamental constants happen to fall within the narrow range thought to allow life . The strong anthropic principle (SAP) as explained by Barrow and Tipler (see variants ) states that this is all the case because the Universe is compelled, in some sense, to have conscious life eventually emerge. Douglas Adams used the metaphor of a living puddle examining its own shape, since, to those living creatures, the universe may appear to fit them perfectly (while in fact, they simply fit the universe perfectly).Nobel Peace Price
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...In nature, organisms evolve best within diverse groups of interconnected specie and likewise, in business an organisation's ability to innovate improves with collaboration amongst a diverse stakeholder group. While economies of scale may bring the benefits of lower unit cost of production, economies of scope bring benefits of increased synergies through greater connections, hence improved innovation. Balancing the benefits of economies of scale with the benefits of economies of scope is crucial for the survival of the firm of the future.
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7 Questions to Assess Your Business Model Design « Business Model Alchemist
Ultimately, customers are the only relevant judges of your business model. However, even before you test your model in the market, you can assess its design with 7 questions that go well beyond the conventional focus on products and market segments. First things first. In order to assess your business model you should sketch it out on the Business Model Canvas outlined in the video below. If you want to know more about the Canvas and how to use it you can read Business Model Generation of which 70 pages are available for free on our website . Assessing the basicsoffice 2.0
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Westa looks like it is just coming up and on. We added them for support if they truely are new or are just slow at getting going. I do think Crowdsourcing would be better in Social Networking or Connections as well. by paranomralparodies Oct 10
thanks for your message. to be hoenst, I don't understand the latest addings, I don't see the conncetion to Open knowledge of the peraltree Westa for example, but also Words inside Crowdsourcing...I think the pearltree is losing focus and I really would be sorry... what do u think? by tinalab Oct 10
Don't forget to check us out give us some feedback on what we are doing and how we could do it better. by paranomralparodies Oct 10
Thanks for the add and check us out and all the shows affiliated with us. by paranomralparodies Oct 7