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Sorry to any nihilists in the audience about the cheap paraphrasing of Nietzsche. Robert Cialdini is a power house in the sociology world for his publications and highly digestible books on persuasion and influence. He is now using his understanding of psychology to manipulate people into saving energy and he is doing it with a new start up called Opower. The idea →…read more A lot of systems get out of hand due to feedback loops, whereby the inputs of something end up getting amplified by a system and then increase the input again. Biology, finance and other complex system fail when a system goes haywire and self amplifies exponentially. There isn’t a good language for graphic feedback story telling outside of the systems thinking world. →…read more In our hyper real 1080p-3D 50mega pixel quest for reality, we assume that things are more accurate with more resolution etc. Laser TV is going to produce 90% of the colors the human eye percieves, your best technology today delivers about 30%. However reality can sometimes by too garish and gory so it gets edited, distorted or disappears. Here is an interesting →…read more The average townhouse in New York is now $5m. Example to the left. Here is a chateau in the Loire Valley in France for $5m, sounds like a fixer upper, but maybe a good project to hide out with during the recession. Description: built in 1897 for a French Viscount by the architect Albert Thomas Product, toy, creative tool, cultural icon and study in continuous business evolution. Here is the evolution of the Crayola spectrum courtesy of Weather Sealed.
There are couple of stories here from business evolution, cultural mood and product evolution. The math geek in me is fascinated to know if product bifurcation approximates the Feigenbaum constant. Crayola's color count doubles every 28 years. From →…read more I am thinking & working slowly on the concept of facilitating the registration of property via open source tools. The idea is property law wiki. Making Property Law Wiki Real It is estimated by Hernando de Soto that there is $9.3 Trillion worth of dead capital in the world. World bank video here These are resources such as real →…read more I am a bit of a flight geek. My mom used to teach flying and was rated up to multi-engine class, she also owned and flew a hot air balloon. My grandfather started flying gliders when he lived in New Delhi, India and subsequently taught my brother and I how to fly at age 15 in Iowa. I have flown in micro-lights →…read more The Skyscraper index has been around since 1930 according to Wikipedia. The concept is that skyscrapers are a contrary indicator. I find these indicators interesting but mostly anecdotal. My own thesis is that economies and markets for various goods and services have normally bounded rates of growth or decline due to competitive and feedback dynamics. I am working on a project to →…read more More quality tom →…read more Twitter? Here is a video articulating in a funny way that Twitter has not only jumped the shark, but jumped the Fail Whale as well.
I would pose a counter argument to the Twitter fail whale, but first one has to understand what twitter is and what it does. Twitter is the technical expression →…read more |
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