Friday’s Finds

Every fortnight I collate some of the observations and insights that were shared on social media. I call these Friday’s Finds.

@EskoKilpi – “Scientific Revolution, the Enlightenment, and the Industrial Revolution were about sharing new ideas within networks of people”

@RDBinns – “The RSS reader is an antidote to the algorithmic feed of facebook, the impossible tide of twitter, and news site editorial filters.”

@IndyJohar – “We are busy maintaining 17th C enlightenment notions of freedom in world where we have become slaves to the asymmetric power of networks“

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Every fortnight I collate some of the observations and insights that were shared on social media. I call these Friday’s Finds.

Beans & Noses by @jmspool

The idea is blindingly simple, actually. Every so often, you’ll run into someone with beans who has, for no good reason, decided to put them up their own nose. Way up there. In a place where beans should not go.
Now, there is no logical explanation for this. There is no way to say, “Yes, I can see exactly why you’d want to do that.” They came to this decision all on their own. The way they got to this decision defies logic.
Yet, here they are. Waiting for the moment when the bean goes up the nose.

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Every fortnight I collate some of the observations and insights that were shared on social media. I call these Friday’s Finds.

“Abundance of books makes men less studious” – Hieronimo Squarciafico c. 1481. [Technology changes but people don’t]

Henry Mintzberg said, “It is the conceit of every generation to believe things are chaos in their world, while the past was linear & calm.” @tom_peters

“All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.” – Friedrich Nietzsche via @surreallyno

“Comparisons to the industrial revolution are correct. The problem is when people don’t realise we are the horse this time.” @fraserspeirs

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Every fortnight I collate some of the observations and insights that were shared on social media. I post the best as Friday’s Finds. Here are the best of 2014.

“The nature of work is changing. People’s relationship with work is changing. The changes to society will be vast.” – @gapingvoid

“Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, & eventually degenerates into a racket.” —Eric Hoffer – via @tom_peters

“Again, while enlightened animal trainers are recognizing the danger of a purely behavioral / Skinner approach, VC’s [venture capitalists] are funding it for humans.” – @SeriousPony

“Humans require the difficult and messy social routing protocol of trust.” – Valdis Krebs @orgnet – via @voinonen

“The Industrial era was based on the principle that an organisation produces, not the individuals, so the workers cannot produce without an organisation.” – @EskoKilpi

“How do we evaluate teachers? We never speak of this. It is irrelevant in our country. Instead, we discuss, ‘How can we help them?’” – Pasi Sahlberg, Finnish Educator, via @PascalVenier

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Here are some observations and insights that were shared on social media this past fortnight. I call these Friday’s Finds.

“as soon as a company has a Chief Innovation Officer you know that company has a problem” – Tim Cook – via @BrunoGebarski

@C4LPT – “You don’t get “big data” in workplace learning – only “little data”. But beware – it is usually incomplete.“

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Here are some observations and insights that were shared on social media this past fortnight. I call these Friday’s Finds.

@doctorow – “Once you admit that luck was crucial to your success, you have to confront the terrifying possibility that your luck may run out someday.”

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Here are some observations and insights that were shared on social media this past fortnight. I call these Friday’s Finds.

“Power always thinks it has a great soul & vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak. – John Adams” via @JusticeWillett

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Here are some observations and insights that were shared on social media this past fortnight. I call these Friday’s Finds.

@morgenpaul – “Psst … Your people are not your greatest asset; they’re not yours and they’re not assets. Let’s treat them like people.”

Will robots make our lives better or worse? – via @gideonro

So the question is not whether robots and computers will make human labour in the goods, high-tech services, and information-producing sectors infinitely more productive. They will. What really matters is whether the jobs outside of the robot-computer economy – jobs involving people’s mouths, smiles, and minds – remain valuable and in high demand.

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Here are some observations and insights that were shared on social media this past fortnight. I call these Friday’s Finds.

“We don’t see something until we have the right metaphor to let us perceive it.” – Thomas Kuhn – via @tobiasmeyer

“Humans require the difficult and messy social routing protocol of trust.” – Valdis Krebs @orgnet – via @voinonen

“What if sucessful projects having a plan is just survivior bias?” – @drunkcod

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