May 2009
3 posts
Mindcasting: defining the form, spreading the meme
A method I endorse is to understand things by participating in them. By doing your own thing, you learn the difference between possible actions (what you can do with the system) and likely behavior: what most people will tend to do when that system is switched on for them. Forget this difference and you foreclose on your invention.
I started about a year ago in my project to understand Twitter by...
I am not a newpaper gravedancer, but if ever I was...
The Tuscon Citizen
Our Opinion: Seeking answers?
Published: 05.16.2009
For those of you looking to this space for perspective on the Citizen’s demise, for those looking for What It All Means - you are looking in the wrong place. Excuse us, but we’re a little too close to the situation right now.
Do you ask someone how it feels when a relative dies after a long bout with cancer?...
Massively Multi-Player Denial: When Do We Grok the...
The problem lay not so much with the poverty of the underlying theory as with selective reading of it—a selective reading shaped by the social milieu. That social milieu encouraged financial decision makers to cherry-pick the theories that supported excessive risk taking. It discouraged whistle-blowing, not just by risk-management officers in large financial institutions, but also by the...
