Chewing on these: Performing the world is a conference in New York this fall. Teaching social media to environmental activists. Lianne Raymond gives the gift of words for International Women’s Day. Rob Paterson on new careers in sustainability. Andre Hardin posts an outstanding video of a Rube Goldberg machine from the band OK Go. Jordon Cooper with a nice find: a video about the photographer BlueJake of New York City.
Jack Ricchiuto on simplifying strategy: Every organization, and community, I work with on strategy is very relieved when I liberate them from the inane practice of traditional academic language in the process. I refuse to allow them to waste valuable time debating over the distinctions of: goal, objective, strategy, tactic, and night maneuvers. (I throw in the military reference to “night maneuvers” to inject humor into what is usually a very humorless and uninspired process – and it works.) What do we do instead? We replace these never-agreed-upon jargon with complex words like: where, why, how, and what. To be …
A nice indictment – chess grandmaster Gary Kasparov on the submission of creativity to the dull incrementalisim of logic models: With the supremacy of the chess machines now apparent and the contest of “Man vs. Machine” a thing of the past, perhaps it is time to return to the goals that made computer chess so attractive to many of the finest minds of the twentieth century. Playing better chess was a problem they wanted to solve, yes, and it has been solved. But there were other goals as well: to develop a program that played chess by thinking like a …
Back to the weekly collection of interesting finds: Rob Paterson fins cool stuff on the new shape of non profit boards. Viv McWaters on how she decides to say yes to a job. Rolling Stone on Wall Street’s trickery. Harper’s on the junior hockey life in Flin Flon, late 1990s. No gold medal glamour there. New York Times on the sound of a close finish at the Olympics You Tube: a stunning clip of a high tension power line worker. Stunning