… 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
Love it or loathe it, you’ve got to know where the money’s going to come from, and where it all goes. Get it right from… Read More »Show me the money
This is the fifth post in a series applying Seth Godin’s rules of bootstrapping (see also here) to building a non-profit organisation. Build and own an asset that’s difficult for… Read More »Bootstrapping the non-profit organisation Rule 5: Own your Assets
If you’re leading an organisation or a team, a big part of your job is to help others to do their jobs. The reference escapes me, but… Read More »Your role (1)
Here’s a good way to build capacity: every time you do something new, open a googledoc (or your searchable, annotate-able editor of choice) and do… Read More »Easier tomorrow
Imagine you are in charge of developing an artificial intelligence. Your AI has the ability to move into the world and mingle with human beings,… Read More »Intelligences
Kevin Kelly has a lot to say about innovation as combination. Here’s a good riff: Most new ideas and new inventions are disjointed ideas merged.… Read More »Hybrids (3): when ideas breed (Kevin Kelly on combinatorial innovation)
I was on the receiving end of a broken promise a couple of weeks ago: a cancelled flight. The airline gave me a refund, but… Read More »A broken promise
You might know what you want to achieve – a service or product or program that you’d love to see happen. Maybe you’ve already started… Read More »The wrapper