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On productivity, complexity and living in London

Monday, February 23, 2009

In Iceland I would typically work about 60 to 80 hours a week. Much of that work was pretty invisible – it was long days spent away from all personal contact (except chatting online with friends from time to time) really thinking through incredibly fundamental assumptions. My working habits while in high output mode are [...]

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The Collapsonomics Practice

Thursday, February 19, 2009

Usually I don’t get out of bed for anything less than 1% mortality rates. Harsh as that might sound, there are enough 1% problems to be working on that I do not usually focus on less lethal stuff. However, over the past month or so in London I’ve come to the conclusion that there is [...]

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What I do for a living

Friday, February 6, 2009

Pretty good representation of what I actually do these days. Fun!

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Akvo: we actually use iChat the way that Apple shows it off in Keynotes

Thursday, February 5, 2009
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What Paris Knows – on video blogging and the like

Monday, February 2, 2009

So I’ve been thinking a lot over the past few months about video production – about production values, and about the simple fact that the world is turning into one great big networked camera with 5.8 billion lenses and one archive. In this environment, I think we need some new ways of thinking about media. [...]

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The new video age is going to require radical attention conservation tools to manage

Sunday, January 18, 2009

Twitter and video blogging represent opposite ends of a spectrum. I follow something like 100 people on twitter. It takes about ten minutes a day, maybe a little more if I’m using the web interface. Already several very interesting things have come out of that investment of attention – a larger sense of a social [...]

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Avoiding Capitalism for the Next Four Billion lecture notes

Sunday, January 11, 2009

Part 1: the genocide of the poor. *what is poverty, and what is it to be poor? * *lots of definitions. the one that concerns me is **”poverty means dying of being poor.” ** *How many people every year die of being poor? * **Every year, 60 million people die globally (all causes.) ** **UN [...]

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Dougald Hine’s talk at the Temporary School of Everything on Deschooling Society

Saturday, January 10, 2009

Audio, five minutes of chat at the start, then very good and clear.

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A look around the Tuttle Club

Friday, January 9, 2009
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A Quick Look Around The Temporary School of Thought

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Temporary School of Thought web site. I’m teaching Infrastructure for Anarchists there on January 7th at 1PM, and Soft Development Paths on Friday at 5pm. There’ll also be Hexayurt stuff on Thursday, probably around 2PM but check the schedule on the site for details. Enjoy!

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