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  • Chose the situation… and defer judgment

    Guest post by Mariela. Sometimes i get comments on this post that are too good to be hidden in the comments section. Here is one from Mariela on my previous post “Purpose Maximizers and Candies” Some comments on Candy 2 (as the person who unearthed this particular post, I guess it is no wonder that… Read more

  • Purpose Maximizers and Candies

    What is it that motivates people to come to work, be happy and do a great job ? I am a bit bored these days with all sort of “manifestos” and all sorts of “Power of Now”, “Power of Push”, Power of Why”, “Power of…” What about candies ? If you company is looking into… Read more

  • Precision Information Environments

    Stumbled upon this very well made video (make sure you look at the annotated version of it). Found via Brainpickings. Great example on how many emerging technologies and concepts — including ubiquitous displays, crowdsourcing, pervasive sensor networks and adaptive user interfaces come together. When you look at this, think iPAD 2.0, think Identity 3.0, think… Read more

  • Becoming Better Builders

    This is about an amazing idea of a 23-year young big thinker who created a fantastic community on-line and almost by accident stumbled upon a new platform for on-line communication that could change our world. I stumbled upon this absolutely great video of a speech given by Vanessa Miemis in NYC during the Social Business… Read more

  • Let’s Prepare the Future !

    This article is a cross-post of an essay that i prepared for The Fifth Conference and that was published this week.     The Fifth Conference is a forum for vision. Part publisher and part conference, The Fifth Conference tackles the ‘big issues’, the factors that drive our future. Think ten, twenty, even fifty years… Read more

  • Get a Life and Get Alive

    It’s quite some time ago i did a post with brand new content. It’s partly because i also have a family and a job, but mainly because i only feel the urge to blog when i have real content to contribute. These days i also share an awful lot via twitter: that’s where the day-to-day… Read more