Mindblown: culture, urbanism, leadership, technology.
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the right tools for the job…
There is nothing worse than trying to hammer nails with the butt end of a screwdriver or jam the corner of the standard screwdriver bit into the Phillips screw slot. Having the right tool makes working on something so much more enjoyable. Technology is all about using tools, but it’s also about creating the tools…
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loneliness
you can sit in the middle of the stream and have all the water rushing past you, so to speak, but if you aren’t the destination, it just keeps on flowing by… so, as I sit here I have 773 unread RSS fed articles on my aggregator, and 162 unread messages in my email client…
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more virtual worlds
I’ve never gotten into the MMORPG thing, mostly because I haven’t got the time or money to indulge my want. But one thing has always been askew in the view I have of these games. That thing is that they are too contrived. Let’s face it, paper and pencil RPGs were all about a thin…
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intertwinuglarity….
i wish i had written this – I also wish that there was a year on the date… Intertwingularity is not generally acknowledged — people keep pretending they can make things deeply hierarchical, categorizable and sequential when they can’t. Everything is deeply intertwingled. Ted Nelson In the following, I outline a potential project to make…
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diffusion
This is a general question that I have been specifically thinking of in its current form since I was a freshman at St. John’s… “which is more important, focused action or attention on just one thing (specialization), or diffused action or attention spread across many things (generalization)”. I’ve consistently come down on the side of…
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University District… is it bold enough?
I think that there are things that are very necessary for the health of an information economy: density of highly educated individuals, availability of venture capital, and connectedness among the two. The plan for the University District seems pretty straightforward – meaning it isn’t particularly bold or risky, nor is it particularly conservative. The plan…
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Information availability
In Spokane it seems that finding information about what is going on in the business community, specifically in the entrepreneurial community. There are plenty of things happening around town, and a lot of frenetic energy being generated by the various agencies whose job it is to ratchet up the hype and enthusiasm about doing business…
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Kata-whata?
What does this word mean, what does it have to do with technology, and why am I using it? All good questions. First of all, it’s not a word, technically. You won’t find it in a dictionary or lexicon, because it is a neologism in Ancient Greek which takes chora, the term used in the…
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ugh…
This dialectic between living with my parents again and living in Spokane and all it’s rich potentiality is becoming strained, it’s been four days. First off, Spokane is definitely on the rise, not on the decline as everyone keeps saying. There are good things happening all over town. They are growing organically and doing well.…
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what Google could do…
okay… so Google has all this stuff that they have bought up – Orkut, Blogger, Babelfish, the desktop apps Keyhole and Picasa, the desktop search engine, gmail… lots of stuff. (David Allen’s stuff definition: “anything that doesn’t belong where it is, but for which you haven’t yet determined the desired outcome and the next action…