Complexity
acidlabsNo matter how small the problem, the potential for complexity can make it something else altogether. Watch!
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A better kind of business — Patagonia
acidlabsHere’s how it works. Flexible Purpose Corporations can write one or more special missions into their articles of incorporation. They can be as ambitious as fighting climate change or as modest as maintaining a park near the compa...
Book Review — The New Capitalist Manifesto: Building a Disruptively Better Business by Umair Haque
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I’ve never been one to conform, and Havas Media Lab Director and HBR blogger, Umair Haque isn’t either. The radical re- imagining of economics and capitalism he proposes in The New Capitalist Manifesto is an idea for the 21 Centur...
Inside Story — how not to learn from #nymwars
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A post over at Craig Thomler’s egovau has alerted me to the fact that Australian Policy Online through their Inside Story site, now requires real names in order to comment. The policy (placed at the end of each story) reads: We welcome cont...
Life as a Conscious Practice
acidlabs“What if, instead, we practiced consciously, deliberately, and became good at the things we really want to be good at? What if you first, above all skills, learned to be more aware of what you are practicing? What if constant conscious act...
Our Internet
acidlabsA brief and to the point statement against SOPA/ PIPA from m ss ng p eces. The Our Internet by Stephen Collins, unless otherwise expressly stated, is licensed under a
Why SOPA and PIPA are bad (and have implications beyond the USA)
acidlabsYesterday, we blacked out acidlabs to show our support for our US- based friends in their fight against the bad pieces of legislation that are SOPA and PIPA. There’s a post at GOOD that offers a very understandable explanation. One of the...
The smartest part of the room
acidlabs“Knowledge is now the property of the network. The smartest person in the room is the room itself.” David Weinberger, Too Big To Know
Publishing disruptor Amanda Hocking
acidlabsThere will be more and more authors like Amanda Hocking in the next few years. The publishing houses don’t realise yet that they are corpses waiting to happen. Good on you Amanda for being the kind of innovative disruptor we love!
Betterness
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Over the Christmas break, I read Umair Haque’s new book, Betterness. It’s one of the most clear articulations of the way I believe economics and all organisations should function that I’ve come across. Available only as an ebook, just...
Me on The Future of Collaborative Enterprise
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French collaboration expert, Thierry De Baillon and his colleagues have been working on a project entitled The Future of Collaborative Enterprise, that, in their words is intended to be: … a laboratory, an attempt to pave the path ...
My New New Thing
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More than anything, this site will go back to being my personal site — a place where I write down my thoughts and musings on any number of things from politics to collaboration, big ideas, open government, improving the way business ...
