My dad (John Bredesen Sr.) had a career where he, among other things, built radio and television stations. The technical stuff. Transmitters and studios and really tall antenna. Took me about 3/4 of the way up one of his towers…1200 ft…gave me some serious willies. And he climbed them. Voluntarily. With safety harness, but still.… [read more…]

https://shift.newco.co/an-introduction-to-emergent-order-a20a9aa025f To appreciate why this is impressive, you might start by considering who decides how many retail outlets a city will have for bread and bagels. When your bakery opened in the place where it is now, it just as easily could have been a florist or a shoe store or a bike shop or… [read more…]

Interesting take on the uglier side of the internet. This seems to be one of the more thoughtful attempts at understanding it. http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.no/2017/06/the-shouting-class.html And this in turn got me thinking: All of social media is like that. Not for the first time, I started to worry that social media technology is hurting our popular discourse… [read more…]

https://www.fastcompany.com/3068547/why-kickstarter-decided-to-radically-transform-its-business-model This is a good development. I don’t disagree* with the charter of C-Corp (increase shareholder value), after all, most of us benefit from that every day (phones, cars, healthcare, most things in our homes). However, having a mechanism for a different model is a very good thing. This is an article about how KickStarter… [read more…]