- " Without us using Twitter, by the millions, Twitter would just be a bunch of software cogs in a cardboard box. It is our animation that makes Twitter worth a billion dollars, not just the cleverness of the developers and the openess of their APIs… To a great extent, Twitter is ours, like the air we breathe."
- "The similarities between ants and neurons 'suggest there are general principles of organization for building groups far smarter than the smartest individuals in them,' Seeley says… By looking at decision making in all of its diverse incarnations, we can step outside of standard modes of reasoning and find new ways to talk about complexity in our ecosystems, our communities, our governments, and our minds."
- So by changing the way observations are made, scientists find a whole lot more of the universe that was there all along. There's a moral there somewhere.
- Riproaring stuff from Rob on the failings of central authorities of all stripes
- "Because innovation is often messy, unplanned, and serendipitous, companies should be careful about how much order, discipline, and oversight to impose on individuals who bring urgency and initiative." <— Too true
Conversational leadership
David Gurteen tweeted this interesting article (pdf): Conversational Leadership: Thinking together for a change It makes a lot of sense to me pushing for a
