December 2011
9 posts
“Here’s an area for both some disruption and some lobbying. Let’s build tools...”
– Clay Johnson (via azspot)
Words That Don't Work →
What has been learned from the brain and cognitive sciences is that words are defined by fixed frames we use in thinking, frames come in hierarchical systems, and political frames are defined in moral terms, where “morality” is very different for conservatives and progressives. What lies behind the Occupy movement is a moral view of democracy: Democracy is about citizens caring about each other...
Innovation Starvation | World Policy Institute -... →
Today’s belief in ineluctable certainty is the true innovation-killer of our age. In this environment, the best an audacious manager can do is to develop small improvements to existing systems—climbing the hill, as it were, toward a local maximum, trimming fat, eking out the occasional tiny innovation—like city planners painting bicycle lanes on the streets as a gesture toward solving our...
Occupy Big Business: The Sharing Economy's Quiet... →
underpaidgenius:
Sara Horowitz suggests that the way to change the hypercapitalist system that has led to wide inequity in our society is to defect: to reject the mass affiliation that our established institutions impose. To do so, we have to affiliate with those organizations and businesses that care about people more than profits. This is the Quiet Revolution:
Sara Horowitz via The Atlantic
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How Republicans are being taught to talk about... →
The Republican Governors Association met this week in Florida to give GOP state executives a chance to rejuvenate, strategize and team-build. But during a plenary session on Wednesday, one question kept coming up: How can Republicans do a better job of talking about Occupy Wall Street?
Yahoo News sat in on the session, and counted 10 do’s and don’ts from Luntz covering how...
