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Hacking Business Models

I’ve been doing a lot of interviewing lately. Beyond meeting some really nice people, this means I have to explain what the idea of Business Design is a lot. To be honest, it’s not always an easy...

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Education Through Deception

I happened upon this video via Russell Davies. You should watch it. This video is important because we are all sitting on a massive shift toward online education, (I’m convinced of it.) The number of...

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Designing for the Echo Chamber

Ok, this is the piece I wanted to write when I started my last post. The idea of the echo chamber isn’t new, but I wanted to work through a few things to figure out how to start tackling it. So the...

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Dissecting Serendipity

(For the next few posts I’m going be sorting through some thoughts on Serendipity. I proposed a panel around the topic because it seemed like a good way to force myself to dig deeper into the idea. You...

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Exploring vs. Committing

(Note: This is a piece is part of a larger exploration I’m working on around serendipity. You can find all the articles here.) Most of us are pretty familiar with the trade-off that exists between...

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Luck & the Network

(Note: This is a piece is part of a larger exploration I’m working on around serendipity. You can find all the articles here.) It would be impossible to explore serendipity and not spend a lot of time...

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The Evolution of Social Filtering

So this morning, I started playing around with Quibb (w/some help from Andrew Weissman - thnx Andrew.) I’ve not spent lots of time with the service, but very quickly it had me thinking about how we...

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The Future: Near & Far

I was catching up with David Cranor today. He’s one of the smarty-pants people who helped bring the Form 1, and we had a great chat. David’s been hanging out in Shenzhen, marveling at the ecosystem...

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Rebirth of the Newsletter

After a week of vacation (which was excellent), I needed to go through the normal re-entry of catching up on all the emails I had missed in my absence. In the middle of the missives, it dawned on me...

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The Art of Savoring

I spent this weekend working with the Director’s Fellows at the MIT Media Lab. It’s an amazingly diverse group of people united by a passion for making things that make the world better. Each Fellow is...

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The Rot of Pop-Intellectualism

I just read an academic paper for the first time in 6-7 years(?). It was a pretty refreshing experience. Which is something I never, ever thought I would say. It occurred to me how much post-degree...

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