Niall Ferguson was speaking at the Long Now Foundation, responding to a question from Stewart Brand about how ads and the profit-motive influenced the nature… Read More »Scrapbook: Niall Ferguson on culture, text-for-profit, libraries, search and literacy
… producing books with ease on Gutenberg’s press did not fully unleash text. Real literacy also required a long list of innovations and techniques that… Read More »Deep literacy: Kevin Kelly on more than reading
Speaking of networks, here’s a way into network theory – a few videos from Clay Shirky that make a good introduction: Ten Truths About Social… Read More »Scrapbook: Clay Shirky, Niall Ferguson – a spot of network theory
When you show up and say “here’s my resume,” basically you’ve just shared your SAT score … with the HR people. And the HR people… Read More »Test Scores vs A Body of Work
There are choices that parents make all the time. They range from enlisting your kid in a team sport that’s based on compliance, instead of… Read More »Seth Godin: Homeschooled (2)
I think public school is essential. It’s important that we have a common denominator and that we don’t leave people behind simply because we can… Read More »Seth Godin: Homeschooled (1)
With types of work (work: generative; work: decisive) the virtue is in the mean.** One plants, births, grows, opens. The other prevents, kills, prunes, closes.… Read More »Work: living in the middle
Interface A discipline, culture or scene is a network: a mesh of people, things, ideas and ways of doing things. It might be tightly defined,… Read More »Ways in: ravelling the network
These are tasks that you can finish and be done with – at least for a time. An annual report, paying a bill, creating a… Read More »Work: executive / decisive
Steve Jobs is right about changing the world. And here’s Edmund Burke with a counterpoint – for society read ‘society’, but also, ‘family’, and ‘your… Read More »Stability: Burke and incremental change