Alain de Botton examines our ideas of success and failure — and questions the assumptions underlying these two judgments. Is success always earned? Is failure? He makes an eloquent, witty case to move beyond snobbery to find true pleasure in our work.
Social media isn’t a fad. It’s a fundamental shift in the way we communicate. Erik Qualman’s new book “Socialnomics” from Wiley Publishing will be in stores and available online August 26. By 2010, Gen Y will outnumber Baby Boomers — 96 percent of them have joined a social network.
Barb Dybwad provides a very useful list of 26 locations from which content released under the Creative Commons and free licenses (such as GDFL) can be downloaded to enhance blog posts, social media sites, and the like. Read more @ Mashable
The producers of the BBC’s business reality show ‘The Apprentice’ know that the formula ‘if I win you lose’ provokes compelling television.
Tim Campbell had a different idea.
Another insightful SoulBiography by Nick Askew
The way I see it, collaboration is the antithesis of winning. Players in a game can be focused in terminating the game by winning or by declaring once side as the loser. In collaboration, all players are focused intently in keeping the game going.
Wikipedia is indeed a finite game, but has embodied many traits of an infinite game. [...]
There are at least two kinds of games. One could be called finite, the other infinite. The finite game is played for the purpose of winning, and thereby ending the game. An infinite game is played for the purpose of continuing the play … and bringing as many persons as possible into the play. Finite [...]
