Pinboard links for April 5th, syndicated automagically: Ludger Hovestadt – DigitalSTROM for Cities – why smart homes are not fit for mass market smart installations are 400% more expensive than conventional ones additional cabling complicates reconstruction 75% of the investment are labor costs high maintenance costs 1 node costs about 3W = 26 KWh/a = […]
These are my links for March 19th through March 20th: The Hard Science of Teamwork – Alex "Sandy" Pentland – Harvard Business Review – patterns as a way of making sense of group behaviour (and I'd say emergent phenomena galore) "People should feel empowered by the idea of a science of team building, The idea […]
These are my links for March 11th through March 12th: Why I Want My Daughter to be a Hacker « OffMyGourd – Hackers are simply empowered individuals that want to figure things out for themselves. With hacker properly defined, let’s get to the meat, why I want my daughter to be a hacker 1. Hackers […]
Wie organisieren Sie diese große Erfindungsfabrik? Myhrvold: Die meisten unserer Erfindungen entstehen in sogenannten "Invention Sessions". Das heißt, eine Gruppe von Menschen kommt zusammen, sammelt und diskutiert Ideen in einer Art Brainstorming. Dieses Verfahren widerspricht aber allem, was Ihnen sogenannte Kreativitätsberater als erfolgversprechendes Brainstorming verkaufen. Wir achten zwar darauf, dass die Sitzungen grundsätzlich strukturiert sind, […]
… irgendwie bewegen mich diese Themen diese Tage mehr als sonst – passend dazu ein visualisierter Vortrag von Ken Robinson, quasi ein bewegtes Tafelbild:
2019: A Future Imagined from Flat-12 on Vimeo. Hm, he’s optimistic because “more people than ever are working on problems” (like Clay Shirky’s cognitive surplus) – possibly leveraging a lot of creativity. Via PolkaRobot
The world is full of interesting things … via Kottke
