Jeff Jarvis has been “thinking a lot about this lately: the need to risk and fail and not hold perfection as the standard of success.” That’s a ‘perfect’ jump-off to introduce an important concept I’m trying to promote: generativity: instead of evaluating things on how well they accord with preconceived models and assumptions, let’s evaluate [...]
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I noticed this article yesterday in the New York Times about marquee marathons that are in danger of becoming too popular. Funny: “You are a victim of what you accomplish,” Morse said. “We want to be as big as we can be without compromising the integrity of the event. There’s a breaking point, and you may not [...]
Tim Brown of IDEO shares my curiosity: I am very interested in what new behaviors might emerge this time around and ultimately what innovations they may inspire. Will it be something to do with people changing their attitude toward saving versus spending? Will the growing uncertainty of the world encourage us to look for lives that [...]
What if someone tried to make a genuinely original contribution to the way we see and think about ideas? How might the rest of us recognize such genuine originality amidst the crowds of people rhetorically posing as original? What are all of us (together and as individuals) hoping to accomplish here?… traffic and subscribers? attention? [...]
