A couple of weeks ago, October 1st, I talked at the Meaning Conference. The good Will McInnes. Will invited me to give a talk at a social business sessions meetup in London, and I talked on the Hexayurt Project and Social Capital, and I guess Will wanted to see what I’d do with a broader stage!

It was an incredible day. Packed: nine speakers, with several talks which were simply somebody’s core life’s work layed out on the table at full revelation exposure. I had no idea how I was going to handle following nearly last on top of a day like that. All of the talks are online, too!

Here are the slides from my talk (pdf.) The video has the slides, it’s really good.

My twitter handle is @Leashless.

Here are some things I mention in my talk.

• The Future We Deserve, our massively collaborative futures book project.
• The Hexayurt Project
  • 750 hexayurts at Burning Man 2012
  • The big hexayurt domes in practice and big hexayurt domes in theory.
• The Exponential Function
• The falling cost of solar panels, equal to grid power by 2020
• Small is Profitable was one of The Economist’s Books of the Year 2002, about energy economics.
• Dougald Hine on the social functions of money from the Collapsonomics tour of Ireland series. I also did a talk there.
• Economists
  • Ronald Coase
  • John Nash of A Beautiful Mind fame
  • Yochai Benkler who wrote The Wealth of Networks which figures out what wealth looks like in the 21st century
• The Goat Rodeo theory of organizational disfunction, including the infamous Goat Rodeo Index for measuring such problems.
• Background Sources
  • Buckminster Fuller, environmentalist, humanitarian and the original dome designer
  • Mahatma Gandhi who’s 21st century incarnation might work like this
  • The Unplugged is a short mythic manifesto I wrote about combining Gandhi’s goals, Fuller’s ends. You may well enjoy, and it is short.
• Resilience Maps (Simple Critical Infrastructure Maps) and my old company, Buttered Side Down which focussed on European state failures
• W. Edwards Deming, American quality control guru, and his 14 Points of Management (point 8, “drive out fear!”)
• Valve Softare
  • Gabe Newell
  • Valve’s profits per employee exceed Google and Apple
  • The Valve Employee Handbook
• The Farm are the folks who asked me about zero waste domes in the first place
• The Hexayurt Project team (in the order of the story, not alphabetical or in sequence)
  • Edmund Harriss who invented the quad-dome
  • Dylan Toymaker who invented the H13 and other designs
  • Jay Springett, hexayurt activist about town, and counter of hexayurts from the satellite pictures.
  • Lucas Gonzaleze who translates, documents and did the epidemeological analysis of hexayurt growth trends at Burning Man
  • Rasi Masri who helps build hexayurts and does documentation, renderings and visualizations
  • Julie Danger who invented the Camp-Danger hinge, and makes great explanatory videos. (I inexplicably missed Julie on the talk slides!)
  • You! (and who else am I forgetting?)
• The Future We Deserve, our massively collaborative futures book project.