innovation culture
ONE PARTING POINT
I recently watched the film Conclave, about the electing of a new pope. And in the homily before they enter the session there's a really beautiful statement. That the sin the protagonist is most afraid of is certainty because certainty erodes the need for faith. And faith is the critical point of this.
I think the rational SF... See more
I recently watched the film Conclave, about the electing of a new pope. And in the homily before they enter the session there's a really beautiful statement. That the sin the protagonist is most afraid of is certainty because certainty erodes the need for faith. And faith is the critical point of this.
I think the rational SF... See more
Reggie James • My Hereticon Talk - Spiritual Technology
The historian and biographer extends this backwards in time. Now youth find models of honor not only among the living but among dead. To study the great men of a community’s past is to study what greatness means in that community. That I think is half the purpose of these biographies of Roosevelt and Rockefeller, Feynman and Oppenheimer, Licklider... See more
The Scholar's Stage • The Silicon Valley Canon: On the Paıdeía of the American Tech Elite
relates to other quote from earlier in the blog
Good Sign-Offs
are.nai think people need to deeply examine what MSCHF has done right and wrong if they want to take this approach this time around - killers at the attention playbook but not really able to gain any meaningful network effects for value
x.comNote that the key phenomena are not movements. They are not collective efforts to build social capital around any particular idea or aesthetic or value. Nor are they forms of propaganda or prestige. The real core activities of culture are disciplines of craft aimed at actually achieving something great, regardless of what everyone else thinks. They... See more
Wolf Tivy • Entrepreneurial Statecraft Gets the Goods

Earlier this year, I quietly started a grants program to experiment with alternative capital products (think grants, fellowships, advances, etc)
https://t.co/dbzM9PwRKA https://t.co/8J2GhiP1YY
A guide on how to do great work, from someone who has clearly done it himself.
There are patterns to great work — it would be wise to at least experiment with them for yourself!
Andrew Rose • Introducing the Fractal University Canon
No amount of trend research will help if findings are not integrated much earlier in the strategy process.
What so many organizations get wrong about marketing today is that they treat foresight, cultural intelligence and social listening as downstream efforts.
Too often, every single day, we attempt to map already finalized products to a mismatched... See more
What so many organizations get wrong about marketing today is that they treat foresight, cultural intelligence and social listening as downstream efforts.
Too often, every single day, we attempt to map already finalized products to a mismatched... See more
Matt Klein • Marketing Won't Save You. Your Consumers Will.
Web developer's oath
Before the exercises, let me remind what you promised at the end of the previous part.
Programming is hard, that is why I will use all the possible means to make it easier
Before the exercises, let me remind what you promised at the end of the previous part.
Programming is hard, that is why I will use all the possible means to make it easier
- I will have my browser developer console open all the time
- I progress with small steps
- I will write lots of console.log statements to make sure I understand how