Seth Godin: The Mona Lisa Principle
When your ideas are spreading, when your work is remarkable, when your organization has built a social ratchet that works, one of the side effects… Read More »Seth Godin: The Mona Lisa Principle
When your ideas are spreading, when your work is remarkable, when your organization has built a social ratchet that works, one of the side effects… Read More »Seth Godin: The Mona Lisa Principle
… and so it seems to me that in this most twenty-first of centuries we live our lives in a state of unending distraction. The… Read More »Monkeyminds; or, Fiddlesticks
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This post contains a few snapshots from a post by Jerry Neumann (The Deployment Age) and a great overview on the Death and Birth of… Read More »Technology (12): Rise and Fall, Part 2
Why is the transition from one techno-economic system to another so disruptive for companies and individuals? On rookies and old pros We know that it… Read More »Technology (11): The World Turned Upside Down; or, the rise and fall of techno-economic regimes
If you haven’t come across it yet, Jeremy Norman‘s HistoryOfInformation.com is absolutely tremendous. It contains “more than 5,000 illustrated entries covering a diverse range of… Read More »Technology (10): a historyofinformation
In short This book – about the origins of the internet – comes highly recommended by lots of people, and is really excellent. Longer I… Read More »Technology (9): The Dream Machine
This extract is from one of the best interviews with Kevin Kelly I’ve heard, on David Perell’s The North Star podcast. It covers a lot… Read More »Technology (8): Kevin Kelly on finding jobs for infant technologies
Everyone who is a person has a brand in the sense that your reputation precedes you, that just hearing your name implies a promise. But… Read More »Seth Godin on personal brands and social media strategy
This looks like a fantastic set of tips from McKinley Valentine of The Whippet.* I say “looks like” because I haven’t tried the tips yet,… Read More »“A meaningful jump”: McKinley Valentine on better ways to share your blog or newsletter on twitter