Crooked Timber » » The myth of “The Myth of the Paperless Office” I have gone almost completely paperless in my business. How about you? (tags: business work research paper office interesting Technology) Rashomon (1950) This film is Akira Kurosawa’s adaptation of Ryunosuke Akutagawa’s short story dealing with the subjectivy of eyewitness evidence in the solving of a crime. (tags: film storytelling kurosawa) What is Chaos? An Interactive Online Course for Everyone A nice introduction to the math and science of chaos. Rich ground for generating analogues in the organizational world. (tags: chaos complexity culture education learning math organization philosophy …
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From a paper on Korean poetry comes this poem by Ko Un, “Ode to Shim-chong:” Indangsu sea, shine dark blue, come rising as a cloudlike drumbeat. The waters, the sailors who know the waters, may know the dark fate of the world beyond that lies past the path that sometimes appears, the weeping of children born into this world, and the sailors may know my daughter’s path. How can the waters exist without the world beyond? Full-bodied fear has now become the most yearned-for thing in the world, and my daughter’s whimpering stillness in the lotus bud will be such; …
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My friend Rowan was exploring some online tools and asking the question, how do we make these tools useful and relevant. My response, which I posted at his blog, goes like this: In my experience what is most important is to first understand what your community needs. For example, a small group in the organization I am currently working with wanted a tool that allowed people to work on a document, but to only have access to the most recent draft. They set up an experimental wiki to do it, but that entailed them all learning wiki …
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An Earth Without People — [ environment ]: Scientific American A new way to examine humanity’s impact on the environment is to consider how the world would fare if all the people disappeared By Steve Mirsky (tags: environment nature science interesting toread)
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The Art of Chaordic Leadership — Dee Hock full-text article Dee Hock on chaordic leadership (tags: leadership chaordic)