December 2009
120 posts
For maximum prosperity... →
…feed the web first. Arriving at standards is often easier said than done. Standard-making is a torturous, bickering process every time. And the end result is universally condemned—since it is…
The final stage in the life cycle of networks... →
…is the embedded phase, where one standard is so widely accepted that it becomes embedded in the fabric of the technology and is thereafter nearly impossible to dislodge—at least as long as the…
Willpower →
The Expert
they are into impressing you with their abilities. They are usually incredibly good, but their need for recognition gets in the way of mastery. Everything they do is an attempt to prove themselves and in order to do this they must perform like an actor on stage.
(by Zed Shaw)
“A master makes everything look effortless. Nothing is frustrating or difficult...”
– Zed Shaw
Networks in the fluid phase... →
…have a different dynamic. The plethora of choices in the prestandard phase gradually reduces to two or three. Allegiances are mobile, and drift over time. During this period, networks demand the…
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Currency
The only currency ever was, is and will be is called life experience.
“Trust comes, in part, from simplicity. When something is simple, it’s possible...”
– Alex Payne on Computing Simplicity, Minimalism, and Trust (via mnmal)
“The inescapable thing about the present is that everything in it is already...”
– Printer Friendly (via interestingsnippets) (via infoneernet)
“Anderson sees this real-time overlay of data atop the physical world as leading...”
– How Real-Time Data Creates a More Comfortable World - Advertising Age - DigitalNext (via interestingsnippets)
“We’re facing a technology IPO tsunami. It may start with Twitter, or Facebook,...”
– Paul Kedrosky - Are Startups Getting Crazy, Or Just IPO Crazy? (via jared) (via infoneernet)
Newsledge →
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Newsledge
This year was about full focus on getting clairvoyance to my business. I had luck with my only success story in startups, smuff.ro which supported me financially to have time catching up the flow, to bleed on the edge of technology, to understand as I can our world today and the trends behind driving it. Newsledge is what happening today — a new lifestyle — being with the news and...
The prestandard phase... →
…is the most exciting. This period is marked by tremendous innovation, high hopes, and grand ambition. “Aha!” ideas flow readily. Since there are no experts, everyone can compete, and it…
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It seems rss readers are for input and the real-time web is for output.
That sounds normal, we are tend to consume quality items and often producing just shit.
See the comments of this RWW article: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/rss_reader_market_in_disarraypage2.php#comments
The Open Startup and the Open Business Model
I promise in my company there won’t be any VC investment, or board of directors, or any kind of managers EVER.
http://steveblank.com/2009/12/21/the-elves-leave-middle-earth-–-soda’s-are-no-longer-free/
“The universe just is: a fixed spacetime block. All past and future times are...”
– Ellis and Rothman
“With digital there is no need to trust what’s there. It’s an open...”
– Wim Wenders
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Control
If you name it you control it. Who names you controls you. Everything is about control.
Neither you should be controlled nor in control.
This is the border between worlds; between you as a social being, part of a culture and you as an individual;
One can live in many worlds by staying near the borders, by not paying attention to own things but let things happen without owning you.
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Predictions
Any prediction about a favourable future technology will fall just within the expected lifespan of the person making it.
— The Maes-Garreau Law
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Getting Things Done
Do the most important 20 per cent of a job in order to get 80 per cent of the reward.
— The Pareto Principle
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Dispute
In any dispute, the intensity of feeling is inversely proportional to the value of the stakes at issue.
— Sayre’s Law
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“Work expands to fill the time available for its completion”
– Parkinson’s Law
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Five laws of human nature
You’re so predictable.
Offended? We’re used to the idea that nature is governed by laws that spell out how things work. But the idea that human nature is governed by such laws raises hackles. Perhaps because of this, they have often been proposed with tongue in cheek – which makes it all the more disconcerting when they turn out to be backed up by evidence.
Source: New Scientist
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Control
Mind can be controlled by neuro programming, by memes, by will, electronic waves, by tv, movies, books and newspapers, by friends and government.
Soul, heart, spirit cannot be controlled such ways since they are immaterial, imortal.
The border of control is the culture, beyond culture are the fantastic things happening.
Take a look what cultures you are part of, who influnces your canon. Be...
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“Good enough to feel”
– Life
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“Too Big to Know”
– World
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A Life at the Roxbury
“What’s inside let it be outside” — seems to be a general guideline for all times.
The Silent Generation will be built on this principle: looking normal, transparent to world from outside and living in full frredom inside.
Eastern philosophy hits back. Clever people won’t run for the ultimate freedom in the world, they will find it in silence inside.
This is a...
[2b2k] From information overload to knowledge...
Sent to you via Google Reader [2b2k] From information overload to knowledge overload [I’m not sure how much of a commentary I’m going to blog about the course of writing my new book, Too Big to Know. Here’s a first post. It makes me personally uncomfortable to talk about this process, so I may not continue to do so. Also, please note the “2b2k” in the title, providing...
Eureqa – Software to Replace Scientists
Sent to you via Google Reader Eureqa – Software to Replace Scientists The job of a scientist has its fun parts, and its not-so-fun parts. Making new discoveries, understanding the way things work, and experimenting with the natural world are all pretty cool ways to spend your day. Sifting through endless files of data looking for small correlations and insight…not so much. Which may explain the...
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Digital has no heart
Information and Knowledge Economy is about the reason, the rational, the singularity toward moves is the digital brain.
People riding the knowledge wave are spending huge energies to create it — living on the bleeding edge of technology sacrifices almost all offline, real world presence.
Humans are pre-conditioned to think both with the mind and the soul, to sense both the rational and...
Loved Avatar's World-Making →
I just saw Cameron’s movie Avatar. I went for the spectacle, the total immersion. As a way to visit another planet it was fantastic. Don’t be distracted by the lame plot (a galatic Dancing With…
“Make a list of your application’s current functionality. Then remove the bottom...”
– Jason Fried (via this) (via mnmal)
In the network economy a firm's primary focus... →
…shifts from maximizing the firm’s value to maximizing the network’s value. Not every network demands the same investment. The music CD standard and web of suppliers is well entrenched by now. The new DVD video standard is not. A publishing company issuing music on a CD has to devote less energy to making sure the CD platform flourishes than does a movie company issuing their...
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“The most effective advertisements of all are those with little or no rational...”
– Talent imitates, genius steals: No Rational Content (via heyitsnoah) (via infoneernet)
1,000 Years of Forgetting →
One thousand years from now, much of what we know will be forgotten. That’s been true in the past. We have only a fragmentary cultural memory of what happened 1,000 years ago. And what…
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As the destiny of firm and web intertwine... →
…the health of the matrix becomes paramount. Maximizing the value of the net itself soon becomes the number one strategy for a firm. For instance, game companies will devote as much energy to…
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“To Google, you are the product.”
– Slashdot/Anonymous Coward
The Rise Of Fast Food Content →
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“Your memory will be constantly, instantaneously aided by the information...”
– Ray Kurzweil
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“To understand is to discover, or reconstruct by rediscovery, and such conditions...”
– Jean Piaget on To Understand is to Invent - The Future of Education (via arvind) (via notational) (via infoneernet)