Designing for Generosity
Clay Shirky is always a great speaker. Here’s his Pop!Tech from last year: @ Yahoo! Video Related posts: Global Economic Constitution? Pop!Tech Notes, part 2 The New Model for Primary Care Medicine
View ArticleAmerican Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
Has anyone read the entire text of the stimulus package? The ambiguity of this question is intentional. For those reading this post who have read the entire text, would you please comment on it? What...
View ArticleRadical Transparency
In a March 2009 Wired article, Daniel Roth calls for radical transparency in financial reporting as the path to recovery and a more secure financial system. He argues that the reporting requirements...
View ArticleTribes
Tribes are hot. Kevin has referred more than once to the famous Dunbar number for limits on optimal human tribe size. One of my favorite books recently is Seth Godin’s book on leadership, called — you...
View ArticleThe Nature of Innovation
One of my favorite talks of all time is Ken Robinson’s on how children are born naturally innovative and the process of schooling and growing up in our society beats it out of them by the time they are...
View ArticleCrowdsourcing Election Verification, part 3
In part 1 I advocated photographing your completed ballot before submitting it and posting your photograph online. Turns out that if you followed this piece of advice in Missouri, you might be in jail...
View ArticlePeer-Review vs. Info Prizes and Markets
I have been having a 140 character discussion with Ciarán Brewster (@macbruski) via twitter. And while it’s kind of interesting to force complex subject matter into very few characters, it is limiting...
View ArticleFoldit
Has anyone played Foldit, the protein-folding game that is designed to advance the science? This Wired article makes it sound like Ender’s Game meets biochemistry! Sounds like the Poehlman kid is the...
View ArticleWorld’s Most Ambitious Crowdsource
Everyone has heard about the Large Hadron Collider, arguably the most ambitious and complex engineering project ever undertaken, anywhere. The purpose, no less ambitious, is to answer all sorts of...
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Convergence
As readers of my blog posts know, I talk a lot about evolutionary systems, the formal structure of cooperation, the role of both in emergence of new levels of complexity, and I sometimes use cellular...
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