Archive for Aug 2021

5 entries

Seeing Like the TSA

Tue Aug 24 09:35:00 2021

A recent trip through SL airport's new TSA screening area shows why bureaucracies legibility fails. People aren't corporate or hierarchical. Instead they're messy... and innovative.
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Life Will Find a Way

Tue Aug 17 13:16:00 2021

An old apricot tree reminded me that life is wonderfully decentralized, helping it succeed in harsh conditions.
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Clean Sheets and Strategy

Mon Aug 16 14:34:00 2021

Most of the activities IT performs aren't strategic. Like clean sheets, they're important, but not differentiating. How do you determine what's strategic? Evaluate the domains of your business.
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Ephemeral Relationships

Mon Aug 9 14:27:00 2021

Many of the relationships we have online don’t have to be long-lived. Ephemeral relationships, offering virtual anonymity, are technically possible without a loss of functionality or convenience. Why don’t they exist? Surveillance is profitable.
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Smart Property

Tue Aug 3 10:13:00 2021

Smart property is much more than the anemic connected things we have now. Smart property imagines a world where every thing participates in digital communities and ecosystems, working through programmable agents under the owners control.
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