9 month ago
Linkorama : Socrates and the Children's Party - One of the most successful metaphors for complexity I have ever created was the Childrens' Party story, which has developed with variations (such as the Appreciative Inquiry ending) over the years. Some time ago Christopher Bellavita wrote up a variation
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10 month ago
joshua : The Bottom is Not Enough - on peer production
Linkorama : Bottom up demands time - The bottom-up hive mind will always take us much further than even seems possible. It keeps surprising us in this regard. Given enough time, dumb things can be smarter than we think. At that same time, the bottom-up hive mind will never take us to our end
deusx : Kevin Kelly -- The Technium - "I think the top-down function of editors -- to select, prune, guide, solicit, shape, and guide the results from the crowd -- is essential to excellence."
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13 month ago
Linkorama : Dave Snowden on Everything is Fragmented - His point of view is information models don’t apply to humans. We are pattern recognition devices. We recognize and act based on partial data sets.
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14 month ago
nelson : Wolfram's huge ego - 20 year old student proves a 2,3 Turing machine is universal; Wolfram's blog post uses the word "I" 2,3 times in each sentence
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19 month ago
Linkorama : Musing about collective intelligence and Agile - "And maybe that’s where collective intelligence should meet Agile. Where we use the power of well-established knowledge bases and tie it up to the experience of a large collective in order to focus on a problem, then use an accelerated evolutionary
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20 month ago
Linkorama : ‘The Complexifying Instinct’ - Good post, comment nincoopery
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32 month ago
Linkorama : Managing Complexity - Companies have to change their cultures to move from "knowledge is power" to "sharing is power." One advantage of the acceleration of culture and technology is that knowledge becomes outdated sooner, reducing the "holding power" of individuals.
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33 month ago
Linkorama : Complexity causes 50% of product returns - Half of all malfunctioning products returned to stores by consumers are in full working order, but customers can't figure out how to operate the devices, a scientist said on Monday.
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37 month ago
Linkorama : The Psychology of Context-Awareness - Another implication, if we don't start building context-awareness into information systems soon, all of the current concerns about information overload could turn from worries about lost productivity, into real concerns about serious mental disorders.
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38 month ago
Linkorama : Return on Attention and Infomediaries - AttentionTrust.org ought to lead with this proposition and focus on developing the technology standards that will help individuals and their infomediary agents to increase return on attention
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cameron : A technical tribute to Larry Stockmeyer, October 25, 2004
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