Archive for the ‘No straight lines’ Category

Venturing beyond the possible

Sunday, November 20th, 2011When running the No Straight Lines Induction Days, I am often challenged, (on more than one occasion I have to add), though this particular challenge is now expected. And it relates to Apple.Some people struggle to reconcile Apple as a ...

Openness is resilience

Tuesday, November 8th, 2011What does it mean to design and create open source tools for civilisation?Marcin Jakubowski tells us how. In many ways this story is very much part of the story of No Straight Lines that I have been researching, evolving and ...

Taking control of your healthcare with Patients Know Best

Friday, October 21st, 2011I am thrilled that Mohammad Al-Ubaydli of Patients Know Best got to speak at the wonderful The DO Lectures. His message and story is important and critical to WHAT NEXT looks like. PKB is a case history in the forthcoming ...

TEDx Sheffield: No Straight Lines

Tuesday, October 18th, 2011Thank you TEDx Sheffield for inviting me to kick off your event recently.No Straight Lines, argues that we have reached the nadir of the adaptive range of our industrialised world. Now faced with an unsustainable trilemma of social, organisational and ...

Celebrating Craftsmanship

Saturday, October 15th, 2011In No Straight Lines one of the 6  principles of NSL is  #2 Craftsmanship.Craftsmanship can and does manifest it self in many ways - we need to celebrate them all. This lecture from The Do Lectures given by the charming ...

Human nature is not like a machine

Friday, October 14th, 2011John Stuart Mill writing in On Liberty in 1859 said "man (humanity) is not built like a machine, that should be set to do the work exactly proscribed to him but should be seen more like a tree, that can ...

Grow VC opens API for developers for a truly open crowdfunding ecosystem

Thursday, October 13th, 2011The guys at GrowVC seem to be on a wave of constant iteration and development, constantly pushing the boundaries of how venture funding is going to look like, and be like.Grow VC Chairman and Co-founder Jouko Ahvenainen said to me ...

Craftsmanship with John Coltrane

Wednesday, October 12th, 2011Click here for a deeper dive into CraftsmanshipMore info on (No Straight Lines)Video: Designing for transformation

A suitable placement: Juveniles In Justice

Friday, October 7th, 2011In 1990 or thereabouts I met a guy called Richard Ross (American) in Vienna. He was part of a photographic show that a friend of mine had curated called Reinventing the American Dream. At the time I had no idea ...

Grow VC Launches Community Partner Program – 70 Campuses in the US

Wednesday, September 28th, 2011At GrowVC  for whom I work as Head of Vision we have been working on some very interesting and I would say ground breaking projects and initiatives. And wanted to share some interesting developments.Today ‘Virtual Silicon Valley’ platform creator Grow ...

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