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torsdag 25 augusti 11

In the (crisis) mood3


Ceci n’est pas the industrial economy

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


Umair Haque: Don’t Lead, Build.6


Of Examples And

Experiments


But do we have a vocabulary for

builders?


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


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.


Experiments are needed

to see what doesn’t work.

how do we encourage more

experiments?


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”.


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


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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.


Demos show us

how the future

might work.

just Demo it.


Hugh McLeod, Gaping Void


Because there is so much to unleash...


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


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