• Dobedo language, part 11: Rethink
    Dobedo language, part 11: Rethink

    Affordances, Values, Ideas, Sources of inspiration, Core Competencies, (collective) Intelligence, Social Computing, Patterns & Grids & Legends, Insights, Time, Narratives & Risks, Interpretations, Innovations & Sensemakings, Business Models, Captures.
    Michael Wesch, YouTube.
    What is the smallest un-learning in your own How wrt to all of the above?

  • Beyond Free
    Beyond Free

    A great blogpost from Mashable, including snippets from Steven Hodson, Scott Karp and Alexander van Elsas:

    What is the solution proposed to counteract ad-based FREE?
    Micropayments, functionality and content behind pay-walls, of course.
    What I see as the main obstacle for the new business models and the new creation of value in the Ad2.0 world, is the trouble […]

  • Dobedo language, part 10: Cloud
    Dobedo language, part 10: Cloud

    Throughout all the hooha about virtual, web [insert number here].oh, social and other assorted schmizniz, it’s easy to spot the future. To successfully track the cloud, follow the hardware.
    And, yes, Nicholas Carr is mandatory reading:
    Microsoft expects corporate customers to accelerate their shift to the cloud computing model over the next five years, bringing changes in […]

  • Dobedo language, part 9: Supply <> Demand
    Dobedo language, part 9: Supply <> Demand

    Instead of those thingies, you might want to experiment with inserting your own optimal mix of metadata, generatives, platforms, patterns & exception handling. If you do a good enough design effort, you’ll get asymmetry, reciprocity and growing value out of the transactions, the flows, the conversations themselves.
    Fred Wilson, found through Mark Ury:
    […]

  • Dobedo language, part 8: OODDAA
    Dobedo language, part 8: OODDAA

    One of the most powerful ways to not only manage complexity, but harness its dynamics for your own benefit, is to intervene through slightly tweaking your organizing metaphors.
    OODDAA, a Dobedo tweak and extension derived from the more commonly known OODA loop.
    The letters stand for Observe, Orient, Design, Decide, Adapt & Act.
    Now, to elaborate a bit, […]

  • Dobedo language, part 7: Society 2.0
    Dobedo language, part 7: Society 2.0

    Social & societal entrepreneurship
    Why?
    A combination of traditional institutions no longer able to adequately
    fulfill the increasingly dynamic, multidisciplinary, nationborder agnostic
    social needs and awareness of the citizens, and a growing grassroots
    connectivity among generation Y.
    What?
    Following on from the why, rather than a single definition, a multiplicity.
    This vision and definition from Ashoka, just one of the many:
    Vision
    Ashoka envisions a […]

Introducing dobedo

Wife. Three kids. Cat. Coffee. At the slightest encouragement, John will tell you about a tool he's developed, which you can use to resolve complex issues.He's currently working to situate the tool in what he refers to as the fourth place...

In here you'll find all kinds of things, people, products and stuff he thinks about. There's a golden thread of sorts - the proposition that there is this one, typically very small change, that if you go ahead with it, yields a disproportionally large positive difference.

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