Category Archives: book riffs
black swan innovation
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After John & I yelled at him for an hour last friday, our PhD student Sam MacAulay was still gracious enough to continue talking with me. In the course of discussion he asked a good question – what actual impact complexity science has had on management studies? We talked about it for a while, and […]
extra-dimensional innovation
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When I started university I thought I would be a math major. I had always been pretty good at math, and, just as importantly, I had always enjoyed it. Things went well reasonably well until the second semester, when we started working with n-dimensional matrices. Because I couldn’t visualise n dimensions, I had real problems […]
A must read
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Kevin Kelly has put his book New Rules for the New Economy online – readable for free. Personally, I find nearly everything that Kelly writes worth reading, but this book in particular is essential. It’s pretty easy to discount a book written about the ‘new internet economy’ written over 10 years ago – it’s a […]
On sacrificing limbs…
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I just finished reading Old Man’s War by John Scalsi. Overall, it was pretty entertaining. One part of it reminded me of a conversation about innovation from earlier in the week. The book is set well into the future, and there are three types of humans around. The first is the normal everyday variety, like […]