This is a short post about what could be a big subject. [Do I hear sighs of relief? Enough already! :-) ] There’s a fascinating article in the latest Scientific American MIND: Scientific American Mind: The Teen Brain, Hard at Work Under challenging conditions, adolescents may assess and react less efficiently than adults The Big … Continue reading “Thinking more about Generation M: Is adolescence a con we perpetrate on ourselves?”
I’ve been immensely frustrated with e-mail in enterprises over the years, for a variety of reasons: Dangling Conversations, where an e-mail sent to a specific mail list then creates a number of partially-overlapping conversations as people subtract and add people to the list for random, often selfish reasons. Decision-making gets difficult as a result because … Continue reading “Musing about mail”
The kernel for this post is a comment and a question from Stephen Smoliar on a recent post of mine. [I think this post should come with a health warning on its length and its subject matter. You have been warned :-) ] Gresham’s Law, simply put, states that Bad Money Drives Out Good. If … Continue reading “Is there a Gresham’s Law for information?”
This is a follow-up on something I posted a few weeks ago, with comments from Stu, Ian and TJ. The issue was about moderators becoming some sort of gatekeepers over time and the existence of some sort of continuum across which this happens. While researching some of the control issues related to Wikipedia, I happened … Continue reading “More on gatekeepers and opensource”
Building Society for the 21st Century* Economic models that succeed tend to take advantage of the abundances as well as the shortages that characterise a particular economic era. Traditionally, the primary factors of production used to be land, labour and capital; much of this was in “institutional” rather than individual hands, and as a result, … Continue reading “Kernel”