Archive for Aug 2021


Seeing Like the TSA

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

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

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

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

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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