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In the (crisis) mood3

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Ceci n’est pas the industrial economy

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But some still think it should be managed like it is.

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Umair Haque: Don’t Lead, Build.6

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Of Examples And

Experiments

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But do we have a vocabulary for

builders?

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We all know the basic meaning of these words: Experiment, Hack, Demo. But do they hold a deeper meaning, for us and society?

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What is an experiment?

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• Scott Berkun: What schools call experiments vs. What experiments should be about.

• Managers don’t like experiments, because they can make you look foolish.

• However, failure is the interesting thing about experiments, not an inherent flaw.

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Experiments are needed

to see what doesn’t work.

how do we encourage more

experiments?

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What is a hack?

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• Urban Dictionary: “A clever or elegant technical accomplishment, especially one with a playful or prankish bent. A clever routine in a computer program, especially one which uses tools for purposes other than those for which they were intended, might be considered a hack.”

• We’ve been taught not to hack, because hacking is challenging institutions and “the way things are done”.

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hacks show us how things could work.How can we become better hackers?

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!"#$’& () # *+,-?

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• Demos are not revolutions, but they show where the barricades are being built.

• To demo is to dare – to think differently, to do differently, to challenge the way things are done.

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Demos show us

how the future

might work.

just Demo it.

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Hugh McLeod, Gaping Void

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Because there is so much to unleash...

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So her!’s "o the heroes, the cr!a"ors of new worlds.

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