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Yu-kai Chou • Actionable Gamification: Beyond Points, Badges, and Leaderboards
Most of the barriers to group action have collapsed, and without those barriers, we are free to explore new ways of gathering together and getting things done.
Clay Shirky • Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
Things are moving in the right direction.
Alexandra Franzen • The Checklist Book: Set Realistic Goals, Celebrate Tiny Wins, Reduce Stress and Overwhelm, and Feel Calmer Every Day
We’ve all experienced meetings where nothing happens until the last ten minutes, when the end looms and people get down to business.
Pamela Kristan • Awakening in Time
Everything is falling apart, but also, new things are possible. And Octavia said that “[t]here’s nothing new / under the sun, / but there are new suns.” We are in a time of new suns. We’re in a time of new suns. We have no idea what we could be, but everything that we have been is falling apart. So it’s time to change. And we can be mindful about t... See more
adrienne maree brown • adrienne maree brown — On Radical Imagination and Moving Towards Life | The On Being Project
We can. We must. We won’t.
Andrew Boyd • I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor
Large quantities of something can transform the nature of those somethings. More is different. Computer scientist J. Storrs Hall writes: “If there is enough of something, it is possible, indeed not unusual, for it to have properties not exhibited at all in small, isolated examples.
Kevin Kelly • The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
Consumer behavior is never done or satisfied. One of the great things about brands is that magical products or platforms or experiences can delight customers in new ways and create new categories or behavior shifts. This is hard but history shows us it happens repeatedly so buckets are never finished.