Just finished perusing Douglas Rushkoff’s Life Inc: How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take it Back. Note the villain is “corporatism,” not simply corporations. Even corporations themselves are victimized; they get tilted into self-destructive acts by decision frameworks that benefit nobody — only roughly satisfying some people’s abstract sense that “the market [...]
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My work on the LdnBeta thing really exemplifies my “learning is personal, knowledge is social” mantra. I’ve been putting an awful lot of time into it — which would seem to be a great personal loss — but it’s gratifying be stretched a little. As per Csikszentmihalyi’s flow theory it’s great (for a change) to have Direct [...]
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Boston’s case illustrates the difficulty you’d have establishing a new startup hub this late in the game. If you wanted to create a startup hub by reproducing the way existing ones happened, the way to do it would be to establish a first-rate research university in a place so nice that rich people wanted to live there. [...]
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The ideas from my last post grew out of a line of thought I’ve been running for a couple of weeks and alluded to a few times before. The gist is that capitalism and socialism/communism share a few core assumptions. They’re two varieties of industrialism. They came of age at the same time, with reference to [...]
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