Steven Johnson has an excellent column in the New York Times, on the iPhone and the mixed merits of open and closed platforms. He begins with a reference to Jonathan Zittrain’s work on “generativity,” (familiar to readers of this blog) i.e. “the ability of a self-contained system to provide an independent ability to create, generate [...]
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The AIG bonuses have marked a turn, for the worse — not economically but socially, or morally. The disgrace of the bonus-giving itself has been dwarfed by the populist reaction against them. Matthew Yglesias has pointed to some of the best bits from around the web — especially via this post quoting Brad DeLong on compensation reform (also [...]
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This is exactly what I was getting at in my basketball & wisdom post: Everyone should watch this, then go out and act on it — then watch it again, then keep doing the right thing… There’s nobody who hasn’t thought ill of bureaucratic limitations and the pernicious mediocrity they create, but how many people [...]
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