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[Reading #7] Changing cities

December 20, 2010
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It’s clichéd to talk about more people living in cities than not, but it’s a milestone.  The way our cities work is changing too. We used to measure them every handful of years in a census, but increasingly we can keep much closer tabs through real time studies of the flow of people and information. So how does that change things?

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Do things #2

December 9, 2010

The more we do more things, the more important good project management gets, and that is something I struggle with. Fortunately a string of start ups are here to help. Better Means is for enterprise projects, i.e the ones with a few people involved. For the first time in a little while, I’m not running [...]

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Reading #6

December 6, 2010

Reading Steven Johnson’s book, it’s hard to avoid the conclusion that people around us affect our creative potential. The, uhh, Art of Manliness doesn’t examine the why, what or when, but it does look at the who of what it calls Master Minds – CSS Lewis, JRR Tolkien, Theodore Roosevelt and Benjamin Franklin’s inner circles [...]

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