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2013-05-21 15:32:42 (1 comments, 2 reshares, 11 +1s)

Our Future Society: The Attention Economy, Gamified

+Living Thru Glass :
+Daniel Estrada and +Jon Lawhead  are two very, very interesting people. Their Swarm project is not just a game, but a real world test of using complexity theory and herd behavior to improve the economy and society at large. They're hosting a Hangout on Wednesday the 22nd at 9PM EST to discuss the project with interested collaborators. If you're a Glass dev who wants to show your chops in a heavy duty project with the potential to change the world, check out what they're doing, and make time to join the Hangout.

ht +Kym Jenkins
https://plus.google.com/u/0/107353128575901975869/posts/4rKL2CEZwjd

2013-05-21 15:24:16 (6 comments, 3 reshares, 12 +1s)

Governance: Austerity

"Austerity isn't working."
-- Robert Reich

ht +Darryl Collins
https://plus.google.com/u/0/114778355221904601456/posts/2F9aoVwVm21

2013-05-21 13:05:25 (2 comments, 3 reshares, 13 +1s)

Zen of Small Tasks: Oxyrhynchus Papyri

"Our future society is crowdeverything."
-- +John Kellden 

Citizen Science
"Schoolchildren, pensioners and office workers are helping scholars at Oxford University to transcribe 2,000-year-old documents. In the 1890s archaeologists dug up a huge haul of papyri written in ancient Greek in Oxyrhynchus, Egypt. But until last year, scholars had managed to translate just 1% of them. Now the Ancient Lives project has enlisted thousands of internet users, who have already helped to transcribe more texts than diligent scholars had managed in the previous 100 years. Everything from shopping lists to a new gospel has been revealed in this extraordinary example of 'citizen science'"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/video/2013/may/17/children-ancient-texts-citizen-science-video#__sid=0

ht... more »

2013-05-21 12:12:43 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 13 +1s)

Automatic for the People: Commerce and Creativity

"As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own."
-- Margaret Mead, Coming of age in Samoa, 1928

+Luis Alberola :
"Getting ready to participate to C2-Mtl ... Creativity for commerce. Thinking that, the corporation (whatever its legal status), like the State (l'Etat) before, is an amazing achievement of our amazing collective capacity to organize to evolve.
As the State, maybe the corporation needed some authoritarian years to mature. And probably there is a need for a democratic revolution now ... Only it will not be the same revolution nor the same democracy.
Am I being optimistic here, because I am walkingt... more »

2013-05-21 11:18:25 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 13 +1s)

Zen of Small Tasks: Release Your Creative Spirit

The +John Kellden  +ConversationLab  Playfulness tweak:

"You take yourself as a Sacred Vehicle, put your rear wheels, Your Experience, Your Skills and Your Talents so they straddle the Launcher, Your Creative Spirit, connect Your Goals onto the Ecosystem thus setting up a Creative Tension, hold on to Your Creative Spirit handle, your BodyMind, s-t-r-e-t-c-h those Goals, release and serendipituously discover where Your Vehicle landed."
-- +John Kellden 

Stunt Derby
"You take your Stunt Car, put the rear wheels so they straddle the Launcher, connect the hook onto the elastic, hold on to the Launcher handle, s-t-r-e-t-c-h the elastic, aim, and release."
http://www.majorfun.com/2013/05/20/stunt-derby/

Now. Go. Do.

Stunt Derby link ht +BernardDe... more »

2013-05-21 10:58:42 (7 comments, 4 reshares, 22 +1s)

Nested Frames

"Working exclusively in one category without consideration to the strengths, effort requirements, or transitional (and transactional) relationships between interaction categories is a myopic waste of time and energy."
-- +Steve Flowers

Original post, thread and conversation:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/102173424341102626703/posts/LLhk23vJDzT

Conversationalists:
+John Kellden , +Steve Flowers , +John Verdon , +Guido Stevens , +Grizwald Grim & +Joachim Stroh 

Image source:
http://www.xpconcept.com/nested_frames1.png

2013-05-21 09:28:22 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 12 +1s)

Zen of Small Tasks: Educere

"Education is when you draw forth from within, the unique wisdom, talent and compassion of everyone you meet."
-- +John Kellden

"The point of the fish story is merely that the most obvious, important realities are often the ones that are the hardest to see and talk about."
-- David Foster Wallace
This Is Water - David Foster Wallace Full Commencement Speech at Kenyon College

Automatically sure, who and what is really important?
THIS IS WATER

Commencement Address, Kenyon College 2005
http://moreintelligentlife.com/story/david-foster-wallace-in-his-own-words

2013-05-21 08:47:02 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 10 +1s)

Zen of Small Tasks: Meaning
"Only through art, meaning."
-- +John Kellden 

Solaris
"For Tarkovsky, film – like all real art – is a form of contemplation on the meanings of our lives, on our sufferings, on what we may make out of ourselves.

Solaris is set in the future, and is about Kevin, a psychologist in Russia whose wife committed suicide ten years ago. Kevin, who lives a lonely, secluded life, is called upon by his scientific colleagues to visit a space station that hovers over a planet called Solaris. A psychologist is needed because astronauts who have been visiting the station have had strange, eerie experiences. Still mourning the loss of his wife, Kevin takes up the mission and upon reaching the space station, finds that the only two inhabitants of the large station, both scientists, are behaving mysteriously.

Soon,Kevin... more »

2013-05-21 08:27:22 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Zen of Small Tasks: Remembrance

"King Solomon’s rings bore the inscription, ‘all shall pass’. In contrast, I want to draw attention to that fact that the time we have lived settles in our soul, as an experience placed within time."
-- Andrei Tarkovsky

Directed By

2013-05-21 08:14:24 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 7 +1s)

Zen of Small Tasks: A Cup of Tea
"You are the adult, fear is the child."
-- Scilla Elworthy

ht +Jason Hurtado Daniels
https://plus.google.com/u/0/118132571570497574176/posts/3k6GMiDkrmq

2013-05-21 08:01:57 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Zen of Small Tasks: Capture
"How will law evolve through the 21st C?"

ht and context for the image: +Grizwald Grim
https://plus.google.com/u/0/116135963476096063106/posts/PJvXv29oot2

2013-05-21 08:58:20 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 8 +1s)

2013-05-20 16:15:46 (2 comments, 3 reshares, 6 +1s)

Zen of Small Tasks: Making a Difference

"Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting."
-- +Larry Page 

2013-05-20 15:49:16 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)

Here's why Vic couldn't sleep last night!  A fresh new Google+ Android build that incorporates all of last week's goodness... and more.   Enjoy.

#googleplusupdate

2013-05-20 14:27:45 (6 comments, 5 reshares, 25 +1s)

Zen of Small Tasks: Multitasking Neurons

"A conversation is an emergent property bridging the gap between mindfulness and effective collective action."
-- +John Kellden 

“We started noticing early on that there are a whole bunch of neurons in the prefrontal cortex that can’t be classified in the traditional way of one message per neuron.”
-- Earl Miller, MIT

Multitasking neurons when learning new behavior
In a paper appearing in Nature on May 19, Miller and colleagues at Columbia University report that these neurons are essential for complex cognitive tasks, such as learning new behavior.
http://www.healthcanal.com/brain-nerves/38795-complex-brain-function-depends-on-flexibility.html

via +Mani Saint Victor
https://plus.google.com/u/0/110286773978323039098/posts/ixbdZZvA3E6

Image source:http... more »

2013-05-20 11:47:08 (2 comments, 2 reshares, 26 +1s)

Introducing The Fantastic Four: The J Edition, take two

"In a network, the best place to store knowledge is in other people."
-- John Kellden

+James Lewis Knowmad. I like machine intelligence, augmented reality, apples and potatoes, and zombie apocalypse films.

+James O'Sullivan Helping build better places to work.
I believe that we're currently standing at a crossroads. The 20th century ways of doing business are failing us due to the rapid pace of innovation. Companies are dying out quicker only to be replaced by others. Business disruption is the new norm.

+Jan Friman Cultural Chameleon, Creative Samurai & Visual Ninja

+Jane Shevtsov I love ecology, networks, geography, and anything that makes me see the world a little differently.

2013-05-20 10:25:40 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 13 +1s)

Good Morning!

"...and the food you fed my children, is the cause of that ill disease."
-- Richie Havens

2013-05-20 09:06:17 (7 comments, 8 reshares, 23 +1s)

Zen of Small Tasks: Adopt, Exapt, Adapt

"Noticing serendipities enables us to navigate between linear and non-linear time."
-- +John Kellden

+ConversationLab Opportunity Mindset Tea House Sequence:

Adoption: Social Presence, Social Learning
1. Gather
Around conversations, anecdotes (eg G+ posts), stories and narratives.

2. Diverge
Play, participate, probe(McLuhan), Fork(GitHub)

Exaptation: Playfulness, Dance, Performance, Scenius
3. Emerge
Serendipities, synchronicities, Black Swans(Taleb)

"Our future society is emerging out of anchoring and embodying our digital weightless selves into our local communities."
-- John Kellden

Adaptation: Technology, Behavior, Structural Change
4. Converge
Aligning vectors, emergent momentum,... more »

2013-05-19 19:33:36 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 19 +1s)

Paul Simon: You Can Call Me Al

via +Vicky Gallardo & +Susan Stone 

2013-05-19 18:22:46 (3 comments, 6 reshares, 18 +1s)

Our Future Society: Interdependence

"Social emerges out of interaction, individual agency, inference, information, insights & interdependence."
-- John Kellden

Work is a subset of Play
"The secret message communicated to most young people today by the society around them is that they are not needed, that the society will run itself quite nicely until they - at some distant point in the future - will take over the reigns. Yet the fact is that the society is not running itself nicely... because the rest of us need all the energy, brains, imagination and talent that young people can bring to bear down on our difficulties. For society to attempt to solve its desperate problems without the full participation of even very young people is imbecile."
-- Alvin Toffler

Image source: Moebius... more »

2013-05-19 17:36:48 (3 comments, 1 reshares, 16 +1s)

Introducing The Fantastic Four: The J Edition, take one

We're pretty much covered if we listen well to these four:
Presence, Learning, Water, Food

+Jack C Crawford How are you today? Feeling good?  Feeling down? Excellent! You came to the right place.  Living in this very moment.

+Jacob Taylor Je suis une intelligence artificielle suffisamment avancée. My superpower is learning.

+Jacqueline Chan Center for Global Safe Water - A scientist at heart and an artist by practice. In pursuit of increasing resiliency of human civilizations through sustainable development and collective conscientiousness.

+Jake Croston Author of the Saucy Pig Cookbook, Culinary Instructor at Chefhangout.com


"As the smallest necessary drop of individual intention touches the sea of human unfolding, it then travels back up through the centerch... more »

2013-05-19 17:09:59 (5 comments, 6 reshares, 9 +1s)

Social: Community

+Otto Hunt :
"This is a long but thought-provoking piece on what loneliness is and what it isn't, and why we should care:"

https://plus.google.com/u/0/115212797133013956498/posts/QtaDAwdxMgf

2013-05-19 16:51:20 (0 comments, 10 reshares, 22 +1s)

Gaia: Grinning Monkey Orchids

ht +zeezee zee
https://plus.google.com/u/0/103312044051921933574/posts/8TLV6FjSru8

2013-05-19 15:32:49 (2 comments, 3 reshares, 12 +1s)

Play: Play is Resilience

"You don't play to improve resilience. Play is the resilience."
-- John Kellden

"Work is a subset of play is a subset of process is a subset of life."
-- John Kellden

"The opposite of play is not work. The opposite of play is depression."
-- Brian Sutton-Smith

Play is a larger solution space
"In a world filled with challenges and wicked problems, directed play is a great way to create a slightly larger solution space in which resolving the challenges becomes great fun."
-- John Kellden riffing on:

A More Resilient Species
"In our own world filled with challenges ranging from cyber-warfare to infrastructure failure, could self-directed play be the best way to prepare ourselves to face them?"
-- Linda Stonemore »

2013-05-19 15:30:55 (6 comments, 1 reshares, 14 +1s)

Play: Play is Resilience

"You don't play to improve resilience. Play is the resilience."
-- +John Kellden

"Work is a subset of play is a subset of process is a subset of life."
-- +John Kellden 

"The opposite of play is not work. The opposite of play is depression."
-- Brian Sutton-Smith

Play is a larger solution space
"In a world filled with challenges and wicked problems, directed play is a great way to create a slightly larger solution space in which resolving the challenges becomes great fun."
-- +John Kellden riffing on:

A More Resilient Species
"In our own world filled with challenges ranging from cyber-warfare to infrastructure failure, could self-directed play be the best way to prepare ourselves to face them?"
-- Linda Stonemore »

2013-05-19 15:00:19 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 12 +1s)

Zen of Small Tasks: Deliberate Play and Deliberate Practice

"If you only play for improvement, you’ll burn out. You must play for pleasure as well as improvement."
-- Gary McPherson
http://timtopham.com/2011/11/13/deliberate-play-v-deliberate-practice/

Deliberate Practice: How to Develop Expertise
"Anyone who has ever conscientiously taken on the challenge of learning a skill – from playing a musical instrument to speaking a foreign language to simply improving one’s penmanship – understands the importance of practice.

As a neuroscientist, practice fascinates me because it is all about establishing pathways in the brain. The ability of the brain to form and re-form routes for specific thought patterns, and for those routes to become more deeply ingrained the more we exercise those thought patterns, makes it possible for usto lear... more »

2013-05-19 14:54:05 (3 comments, 2 reshares, 15 +1s)

Learning: Deliberate Practice

Deliberate Practice: How to Develop Expertise
"Anyone who has ever conscientiously taken on the challenge of learning a skill – from playing a musical instrument to speaking a foreign language to simply improving one’s penmanship – understands the importance of practice.

As a neuroscientist, practice fascinates me because it is all about establishing pathways in the brain. The ability of the brain to form and re-form routes for specific thought patterns, and for those routes to become more deeply ingrained the more we exercise those thought patterns, makes it possible for us to learn and refine a multitude of wonderful skills throughout our lives."
-- Bill Jenkins, Ph.D
http://www.scilearn.com/blog/deliberate-practice-develops-expertise.php

cc +Mani Saint Victor +Craig Calvert 

2013-05-19 13:51:09 (18 comments, 3 reshares, 16 +1s)

Resources: Neuroscience FTWWW

"Taming the Loki that is cultural neuroscience."
-- +Mani Saint Victor

Here I will curate select parts of +Mani Saint Victor's brilliance and groundbreaking finds, towards gathering a body of knowledge relevant for conversations about things that matter and our brains as massively multiplayer complex responsive processes.

Including but not limited to: empathy, affect, biosemiotics and then some. I will most probably return and tweak this very text as I learn more how to perform abductive sensemaking through grok'ing the material.

Needless to say, if others have gems and insights related to neuroscience, you are all more than welcome to plunk down a link, article or somesuch in a comment.

FTWWW: For The Win-Win-Win.

Polyvagal Theory
"Until a person feels safe the... more »

2013-05-19 12:58:47 (1 comments, 4 reshares, 18 +1s)

Social Business Design: Successful Implementation

"Social business is organizing arising out of successful implementing of interaction, individual agency, inference, information, insights & interdependence."
-- +John Kellden 

+ConversationLab  Performance Tea House Sequence:
Task, Learning, Generative Assessment
The deliverables out of the sequence: Story, Flow, Play and Performance. This requires dialog and interactivity in your network and with your stakeholders with regards to opportunities offered and tasks selected.

The Shu Ha Ri of St. Francis of Assisi:
1. Hands
2. Hands and Head
3. Hands, Head and Heart

2013-05-19 12:44:16 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 10 +1s)

Automatic for the People: Petabyte Patterning

"Google is leverage. Through Google+, we co-evolve relevance."
-- +John Kellden

+ConversationLab Social Innovation Tea House Sequence:
Prototype, Gather, Diverge, Rediscover, Realign

Big Data and Relevant Heuristics
"Instead Google operates a very large [petabytes] dataset of observations which show that for any given spelling of a word, x number of people say "yes" when asked if they meant to spell word "y." Google's spelling engine consists entirely of these datapoints, rather than any notion of what correct English spelling is. That is why the same system can correct spelling in any language."
-- +Kevin Kelly
http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2008/06/the_google_way.php

Curiosity to remain relevant
"To get... more »