Rule 2: Our Network shapes us
https://medium.com/technolog%CE%B5%CE%AF%CE%BD/rule-2-our-network-shapes-us-37905f5f95ce
Part 1:… Local networks in technology have low value because technology is global.
https://medium.com/technolog%CE%B5%CE%AF%CE%BD/rule-1-we-shape-our-network-2d3a50c8d7b6
The Twelve Networking Truths
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1925
A quick puzzle to tell whether you know what people are thinking
http://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/business/wonkblog/majority-illusion/
“If all we’re doing with these technologies is finding a quicker way to fix potholes and ignoring the hard issues, we’re not really affecting anything,” he said. “Cities are about those core issues — education, healthcare and safer, better streets. All these point-and-click mechanisms should be aiming to build trust, build networks and really take on the tough problems.”
“For starters, translating the tech-speak of Coders for America into the bureaucratese of civil servants and straining that into the do-gooder language of foundations and environmentalists takes time.”
“Further, investment for social good is miniscule compared to the funds being poured into for-profit technologies by the likes of Google, Facebook and IBM. This space is dominated not by the lords of venture capital but by tinkerers and tech geeks, environmentalists, civil servants and Coders for America. Lastly, innovation is a messy, fits-and-starts business. To keep moving forward, officials and developers mustn’t “get addicted to the quick win,” as Jen Pahlka puts it. Building extensive networks that improve planning and city services, particularly in disadvantaged communities, takes time — and failure. Much of what we’re seeing now is fast, cheap and minimally useful.”
https://nextcity.org/features/view/when-were-all-urban-planners
“The close relationship between Hoffman and the White House isn’t just about his being a major political donor. He and others like him have something more powerful than money to offer: a way for officials to connect with the largest possible audiences. In the nineteenth century, the bosses of political machines served this role; in the twentieth, it was media barons, especially in broadcasting and newspapers; in the twenty-first, it is people who have created vast online social networks.”
“Even in this age of inequality, there’s nothing as unequal as the distribution of success in Silicon Valley. One of Hoffman’s venture-capital friends, Mike Maples, Jr., estimates that of the roughly thirty thousand tech startups a year, only ten will wind up representing ninety-seven per cent of the total value of all of them, and one will represent as much value as all the others combined.”
“A waiter entered. “I have an algorithm,” Hoffman said. “If it’s a good place, order the special. If it’s a bad place, order what they can’t screw up.” They ordered the special.
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/10/12/the-network-man?mbid=rss