If The Internet Was A Place
if the internet was a physical place, what would we want it to feel like? look like? be like?
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If The Internet Was A Place
Welcome to the Post-Industrial Age
An exploration of the Post-Industrial Age and the challenges faced by companies in terms of talent scarcity, skills obsolescence, and the need for a more agile workforce.
LinkImagine if instead of approaching our computer as a cold, mechanical piece of metal and glass that receives inputs and delivers outputs, we saw it as a relationship with the emergent, ineffable internet mystic that we’re collectively creating.
How might we approach that device differently?
How might we approach that device differently?
Dan Hunt • Internet as Practice
The role of a successful place is to provide a catalytic context for missions.
Venkatesh Rao • Placemaking vs. Mission-Shaping - By Venkatesh Rao
I’ve come to think of software applications as a form of digital architecture: some are places of concentration, others of collaboration, others clearly just for fun. Software’s emotional dimension is crucial: how it feels dictates how it’s used. (Architects hire environmental psychologists; tech companies hire user-experience researchers.) Microso... See more
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I was walking the dog this morning and I was reflecting on how the things we build on the digital world seem to mirror what we build on the physical one. Big social media platforms are the metropolis: dense, busy, chaotic. They’re the place that never sleeps and there’s always something new going on. Something new to see, something new to do. You’l... See more
Manu – I write
From Fugazi and Beastie Boys to The Royal Society: Kickstarter's co-founder on the future of Media (DiS011 | S2 EP3)
open.spotify.comthe royal society impact
long lasting cultural impact
An ode to magazines:
you're entering a universe that's only there
convey a feeling, an amplitude, a point of view
it's an opportunity for meaning-making
what if Taylor Swift has a magazine?
all this is hard (an essay, a song) it takes time
the inward search for emotional truth; connecting with the source -- it's not about the money
doing it for yourself is underrated these days
celebrate the source, the art
a deeper definition of music journalism: to do that well means: really caring; be in it; in that scene
I don’t know if you’ve ever seen or been to the roof of Facebook. The roof is amazingly landscaped — it has native species of plants and these meandering walking paths — and in a way, it’s exactly what I’m talking about in the book. It’s the architecture of thinking, it’s put there to encourage innovation and conversation, but just for employe
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