Intelligence is open, multidisciplinary and inherently collaborative…

Are you cultivating these values in your organisation? Or in your own personal growth?

Right now, social media is boring. Just like normal media is boring.

Most human chatter IS boring most of the time. Try and listen in on conversations at cafes and restaurants. Keep your ears open at functions and family events. Social media is primarily a giant gossip pit. Very human. Just as we have been for millennia. It is gossip and fluff. See the screengrab here. …

(At least when it comes to commercial goods and services. A lot of the really good stuff about is still free!)

It seems obvious doesn’t it?

Clients agonise over cents. They will choose a sweatshop manufacturer over one that employs people with Downs Syndrome. And yet at the same time, they will splash out obscene amounts to use some celebrity’s face in their product endorsements.

Maybe customers prefer the cloying …

This is a quick snip snip of the choicest bits, the bits that stood out for me as I was reading this article, “Nice and nasty does it: Shirky the ‘net guru’ on what the future holds” by Decca Aitkenhead in the Sydney Morning Herald:

“And to put it in one bleak sentence, no medium has ever survived the indifference of 25-year-olds.”

The business model of the traditional …

A beautiful, short, fun and thought-provoking animation about mirror neurons, empathy, the future and the world. Challenging the assumptions about human nature, the assumptions that many of our institutions, like education, are based on. Eg we are hard wired for sociability, attachment, affection and companionship. Not aggression or self interest.

“We are soft wired to experience another’s plight as if we are experiencing it ourselves … The first …

As we gain knowledge exponentially, we also uncover more ambiguities. We discover that life is not black and white, but rather infinite shades of gray.

To some of us, this is an incredibly exciting time. With infinite diversity, combinations, alternatives, and perspectives. To others, this is a time to be fearful. The simplistic comfort of the “good old days” has gone for good. There are no …

When was the last time you actually used one of these (for its intended purpose)?

Mass production systems, like habits, once entrenched, can take a long time to slow down and stop (or change course).

Original image from funcage.com

Thanks to Joyce for this.

Luxury is something much of the world seems to aspire to without question. It is sold as the pinnacle of personal success, excess, and self-worth.

Luxury seems to equate waste no matter how you look at it. And huge amounts of waste at that; in the form of disposable goods (I can afford to throw perfectly good things away), disposable people and lives, pointless activities (growing lawn in drought-ridden …

The amount of fear and worry in our daily lives directly affect our ability to be creative. No one has time and energy to play “what if” games when there are threats (real or imagined) to fight off.

To enable a more innovative society, we thus need to remove or reduce the amount of daily fear and worry. From the background stuff like safe sidewalks to bigger things …

The Singapore government has a long history of running social improvement campaigns: be gracious, be kind, smile more, don’t forget to flush the toilets, and it’s cool to speak Mandarin.

This made me wonder: how would one go about inducing an entire nation to start thinking outside the box? Or for that matter to appreciate, value and desire quality over quantity? (These are challenges that are by no …