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Monthly Archives: October 2009

Mr. Gupta’s Dodgydesic Randome at Eindhoven Shelter Workshop #eind1009

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Click to Play http://www.appropedia.org/Eindhoven_Shelter_2009 We built this thing in about an hour out of scraps of mostly-rotten half-inch square stock. Amazing how sturdy it was at the end of the day. I think I’m going to do more of this “dodgydesic” stuff

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Eelko Brouwer – Sheltering – Eindhoven Shelter Workshop 10/2009

Monday, October 12, 2009

Click to Play Eelko Brouwer, Netherlands Red Cross, covers the context of sheltering for this student group.

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Vinay Gupta – Six Ways To Die – Shelter Workshop – Eindhoven 10/2009

Monday, October 12, 2009

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What’s it going to take to fix the world?

Monday, October 12, 2009

The world is broken because a quarter or half of the people who die every year die from being poor. They have more children so they are sure of having some reach adulthood, and the resulting overpopulation is starving them in many countries. This is an oversimplification but is the basic mess. Utopian visions exist [...]

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On information overload

Saturday, October 10, 2009

I have information overload. Again. Here’s why this is an increasing problem for organizational navigators. If there a billion people with access to publication online or in print, there are one thousand “one in a million” intelligences who’s thinking you can access. Assume you dedicate an hour to each one. That’s 25 working weeks of [...]

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