You will hear people talking about “latency,” which means the delay between a trading signal being given and the trade being made. Low latency — high speed — is what banks and funds are looking for. Yes, we really are talking about shaving off the milliseconds that it takes light to travel along an optical [...]
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control,
decision-making,
decisions,
finance,
intuition,
judgment,
latency,
mind,
objectivity,
pattern recognition,
process,
quantitative finance
I deliberately called this “Envisioning London’s Downtown Future” rather than merely “Envisioning the Future of Downtown London” because I believe London’s future is downtown… Not everyone would agree (see Dan Brown’s column challenging the notion that downtown is the heart of the city, discussed here), but I wasn’t convinced. Even detractors have to admit it’s [...]
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deliberative democracy,
downtowns,
neighbourhoods,
pedestrians,
planning,
social media,
traffic,
urban,
urban design,
urban planning
by OpenConceptual on 07-28-2009
in concepts
When a person orders four books at once from Chapters.Indigo.ca — all of which were “in stock” — why did they ship one of them a day before the other three… which, because of the weekend, resulted in all four arriving via the same delivery anyways… with the result that the latter three were in [...]
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books,
complaints,
personal,
random,
rants
At HarvardBusiness.org, Tammy Erickson writes, Future leaders in all spheres will have to contend with a world with finite limits, no easy answers, and the sobering realization that we are facing significant, seemingly intractable problems on multiple fronts. Perhaps the biggest change from the past: leaders will have to listen and respond to diverse points [...]
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education,
generation x,
generations,
generativity,
historical reason,
history,
leadership,
learning,
perception,
philosophy of history
Another bit of a ramble (I love where it ends up), starting with this Time Q&A: TIME: How difficult was it to chart a history of a massive and diverse thing like blogging? Rosenberg: This is a phenomenon that starts small, then diversifies, then explodes at a certain point. At the small phase, it’s not that [...]
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blogging,
careers,
cultural evolution,
digital media,
evolution,
higher education,
history,
progress,
social media,
technology,
trends
by OpenConceptual on 07-22-2009
in concepts
As maybe one of the most marked turns in the history of mainstream military strategy, Thomas Friedman quotes a US officer in Afghanistan saying, “We don’t count enemy killed in action anymore.” Friedman elaborates: Early in both Iraq and Afghanistan our troops did body counts, à la Vietnam. But the big change came when the officers [...]
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afghanistan,
amazon,
customer service,
employee relations,
military,
military strategy,
organizational culture,
organizations,
relationship centred medicine,
relationships,
strategy,
zappos
by OpenConceptual on 07-22-2009
in concepts
We’ve been hearing for years about “T-shaped people” (with deep knowledge and competence in one or two areas, crossed with wide knowledge across many domains); Microsoft’s Bill Buxton recently wrote about “I-shaped people”: These have their feet firmly planted in the mud of the practical world, and yet stretch far enough to stick their head [...]
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analogies,
creativity,
education,
gurus,
innovation,
knowledge,
metaphors,
skills,
teams
I’m still posting more or less daily at Open/Conceptual, focusing on some special interest stuff there, but I haven’t been doing much for BrianFrank.ca lately. It’ll probably stay this way for a while. Lately I’ve been looking back at where I’ve come from. I actually forgot how non-blog-like my blogging was a little over a [...]
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learning,
open conceptual,
open/conceptual,
progress,
writing
by OpenConceptual on 07-20-2009
in concepts
As I started reading Tyler Cowen’s Create Your Own Economy today, I was delighted to discover the whole book is framed by the concept of neurodiversity — specifically, the notion that autism shouldn’t be conceived strictly as an impairment, but as one cognitive style among many, with its own strengths and weaknesses. From the book: [...]
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asd,
asperger's,
autism,
brain,
neurodiversity
by OpenConceptual on 07-19-2009
in concepts
[Update: within minutes I decided to change the title to "Designing Ideas for Democracy" -- replacing "methodologies" with "ideas" -- which occurred to me after I thought about search results, then realized "ideas" is more appropriate anyways.] This will be the provisional mission for Open/Conceptual. As usual, “designing methodologies ideas for democracy” is something that [...]
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analogies,
civics,
creativity,
design,
design thinking,
enterprise modeling,
epistemology,
ideas,
ideation,
meta-methodology,
metaphors,
methodologies,
philosophy
by OpenConceptual on 07-17-2009
in concepts
In the process of summarizing my last post, Jeff Jarvis suggested I was “searching for a metaphor for what I’ve been calling beta-think.” He’s exactly right — though I wasn’t aware of it when I started writing — so I’m going to take that up with a bit more brevity and focus. The search for [...]
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beta,
beta-think,
heuristics,
human nature,
language,
metaphors,
motivation,
recursion,
relevance,
thinking,
web,
will to relevance
Driving Processes
by OpenConceptual on 07-30-2009
in commentary,concepts
You will hear people talking about “latency,” which means the delay between a trading signal being given and the trade being made. Low latency — high speed — is what banks and funds are looking for. Yes, we really are talking about shaving off the milliseconds that it takes light to travel along an optical [...]
Tagged as: control, decision-making, decisions, finance, intuition, judgment, latency, mind, objectivity, pattern recognition, process, quantitative finance
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