Rufus Pollock of the Open Knowledge Foundation opens OKFC 2009
by Vinay Gupta • April 8, 2009 • Everything Else • 0 Comments
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The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution
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Archive for April, 2009
Gupta’s Law of Network Politics
by Vinay Gupta • April 5, 2009 • Personal • 3 Comments
In a networked environment, the person who knows what to do next is in charge. Because, in a networked environment, everybody can propose action. Hierarchies using the network experience dissonance at the point where the feed coming off the network proposes a better plan than the feed coming off the hierarchy. There’s a counterlaw about [...]
Read more →Beyond Resilience: Visionary Adaptation
by Vinay Gupta • April 4, 2009 • The Global Picture • 12 Comments
I think I’ve made what I’m driving at a bit clearer in my own head by drawing some diagrams. Click the image for a PDF which builds out the model. What it comes down to is four models of change, which are: The Resilience Model: Normal State -> Crisis -> Resilience -> Normal State Successful [...]
Read more →why it’s not resilience.
by Vinay Gupta • April 4, 2009 • The Global Picture • 8 Comments
Everybody loves resilience. It’s a calm, reassuringly solid word. Resilience, n. 1. The ability to recover quickly from illness, change, or misfortune; buoyancy. 2. The property of a material that enables it to resume its original shape or position after being bent, stretched, or compressed; elasticity. The problem is we are not ever going to [...]
Read more →Mamading Ceesay on Economies of Agility
by Vinay Gupta • April 3, 2009 • The Global Picture • 0 Comments
One late night in Soho, Mamading invented the phrase “economies of agility.” I thought it was brilliant and encompassed an enormous core idea that we all talk around and include in our discussions without having a simple, clear term of art for it. In the industrial age, mass production by firms exploited the economies of [...]
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