The most valuable part of having a large social network (for me at least) isn’t visibility, it’s about reducing middlemen. The internet has destroyed many middlemen, and created countless new ones. I barely use the former, and when I don’t have to I avoid the latter. Examples Classifieds –> Craigslist and eBay Travel Agents –>… Continue Reading
Category Archives: technology
Gross Digital Happiness
Happiness metrics have often been thought of as these things that are lofty or ridiculous or simply idealistic. Maybe they are to some extent. Anything not directly tied to money or some economic growth standard doesn’t seem to merit the weight and attention of the general public. Sadly, psychologists contend that most people don’t think… Continue Reading
Building a Future for ‘Work’
I need to say this: We have a LONG way to go in terms of making business “social”, or making businesses social organizations from the inside out. Much of this is predicated on how society approaches the ways in which we work. Case in point: wage issues that affect global workforces, and the ways these… Continue Reading
Fight fears and look for serendipity
Image from http://defensetech.org/2012/10/14/red-bull-stratos-and-ultra-halo-tactics/ When I started my career in marketing -back in the days- the first thing you had to learn was statistics about people and behaviours, relationships among series of events. I discovered the philosophical beauty of numbers and how, if you looked at them with open mind, you could see fascinating cause-effect relationships.… Continue Reading
The new meta #meta
If you look at the world around you it has become increasingly apparent that we are in the midst of a mass migration. This migration isn’t the mega-city migration or the end of the world migration. It is the mass migration of a single species, us, onto a single language, code. Everything in our world… Continue Reading
The Big Pivot – part 3
The following is a guest series by Brendan Howley. Brendan is a Canadian investigative data journalist/collective intelligence specialist; he is at present co-authoring a book with Gunther Sonnenfeld and Sasha Grujicic, designed by Sarah Doody, on the global revolution in storytelling and its effect on brands, businesses and markets. This is the third and final… Continue Reading
The Big Pivot – part 2
The following is a guest series by Brendan Howley. Brendan is a Canadian investigative data journalist/collective intelligence specialist; he is at present co-authoring a book with Gunther Sonnenfeld and Sasha Grujicic, designed by Sarah Doody, on the global revolution in storytelling and its effect on brands, businesses and markets. Note: This series stems from a… Continue Reading
The Big Pivot — Part I
The following is a guest series by Brendan Howley. Brendan is a Canadian investigative data journalist/collective intelligence specialist; he is at present co-authoring a book with Gunther Sonnenfeld and Sasha Grujicic, designed by Sarah Doody, on the global revolution in storytelling and its effect on brands, businesses and markets. Note: This piece stems from a… Continue Reading
What is the true value of capital?
Okay, so we (as in the collective ‘we’) have been examining the nature of a relationship economy that comprises the transition of industrial tenets to a flatter distribution scheme driven by technology and sweeping cultural shifts. Different folks have explored ideas around “human capital”, “social capital”, “social business”, “social economics” and the like, including a… Continue Reading
Thinking about Sandy and Katrina
Almost a decade removed from hurricane Katrina the damage throughout New Orleans can still be seen. People, places, economies all still affected to this very day. Running through various neighbourhoods the evidence that our collective priorities are a adrift is evident as the income disparity throughout New Orleans strikes you as stark a contrast as… Continue Reading