“Politics is a small group of mostly powerless people talking about each other.” — Dave Winer
http://scripting.com/liveblog/users/davewiner/2016/01/03/0781.html
Month: January 2016
The Girl on The Hat – Jane Jacobs
“Tina, the girl on the hat, gets into trouble – falling overboard in a pond, exploring a dangerous cave, being kidnapped by two very memorable rascals – and gets out every time with the aid of a peanut! On one level , this book is a Tom Thumb fantasy, but on another, it is the story of a determined and resourceful little girl who grows when she learns compassion and devotes herself to work she likes…”
Citation
“The bigger the goal, the less competition there is for it. Think: Herd behavior versus solitary hunter.”
https://twitter.com/MarkOOakes/status/683711573991514113
“Technology makes the easy things easy and makes the hard things possible.”
“The [BlightStatus] app proposes a new kind of more productive communication between the two groups that moves past angry and frustrated citizens on one end and a paralyzed city on the other.”
“You can sit around and complain about how the city works, you can complain about how your government works, or you can commit to being a change-maker. You can commit to making a difference, and you can get involved.”
https://medium.com/civic-technology/changing-the-frame-from-social-innovation-to-civic-startups-e8ee09c05a91
About a decade ago, a lot of the “experts” were telling us that e-mail was “dead”, to be replaced by fun shiny objects like social media and messaging apps.
Why didn’t that happen? In a 2013 interview with Forbes, MailChimp CEO Ben Chestnut nails it:
(Email’s) gotten stronger, in my opinion. I remember when my friends and I would email each other messages like, “Hey man, what do you want to do for lunch?” Then we’d go back and forth “I dunno, Chinese?” On and on. Instant Messenger cleaned that out of my inbox. I remember when people used to email me stupid motivational quotes or urban legends. Facebook took that out of my inbox. Friends used to email me pictures of their kids. Instagram cleaned that out of my inbox. At work, project updates would clutter my inbox, but that can get posted to intranets and Yammers, and so on. All those email killers are more like email cleaners. I’m not belittling them. It’s a noble cause. We want our inboxes clean, and we only want to hear from people or topics we truly care about.
Bingo.
http://hughcartoons.com/2016/01/02/why-didnt-email-die-off/
In War Tactics and Strategies In Peace Patterns…
In War: Tactics and Strategies
In Peace: Patterns and Systems
“Systems are nothing more or less than a cohesive set of patterns. Large patterns. Unfortunately, while the brain is excellent at detecting small patterns, large patterns are almost completely invisible to us. And nowhere is this more true than with learning.”
“if you want to learn how you learn, it helps to learn a bunch of different skills at once, because only then will the larger patterns reveal themselves.’
“…if you want to learn how you learn, it helps to learn a bunch of different skills at once, because only then will the larger patterns reveal themselves….”
http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevenkotler/2015/05/04/tim-ferriss-and-the-secrets-of-accelerated-learning/
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