Archive for the 'Open Source' Category
Community Is The Framework
Do you know about Open Source Home Renos
No time to write. Might be buying a house, and then maybe selling our current house.
Anyone wanna buy a house? Anyone know someone who wants to buy a house?
PS. Coming soon! You can pitch your innovative reno ideas to Kyle! I’ll post floor plans and ideas, you send in your ideas…whaddya think? Open Source Renos – a new reality show?!
I haven’t been able to put down William C. Taylor & Polly LaBarre’s book Mavericks at Work. They also have a great blog (accessible by clicking on the image above). The book pulls you in with positive, real-life examples of how mavericks have gone against the grain and been successful in their business innovations. It’s a great read.
Here’s two of my favourite quotes:
…organizations that aspire to create a disruptive presence in the marketplace have to devise a distinctive approach to the workplace. Companies that compete differently tend to work differently from the competition.
…formal lines of authority rarely determine how things actually get done. Most creativity happens in spite of the organization, not because of it. That’s why successful innovators don’t ask for the most resources or the strictest oversight; they ask for the most room to maneuver and the fewest bureaucratic hurdles.
Open Source Democracy
In a previous post, I mentioned that I recently went to hear Thomas Homer-Dixon speak. During his talk, he spoke about working together, pooling our brainpower and creativity to solve problems. Nobody is smarter than everybody. Homer-Dixon mentioned that his next book (which he hasn’t started writing yet) would be about “Open Source Democracy”. This got me thinking about the publication quoted below:
The parameters of possibility of the internet are vast because it is the product not of a single point of reference but of its users seeking innovative ways to employ it for their own ends. In turn, it has brought together people across the world to work on solving common problems and bugs, creating a network of shared ideas and shared experiences from which we can all learn.
– Douglas Alexander, from the forward to Open Source Democracy by Douglas Rushkoff. NOTE: You can download the publication by clicking on the link. Go back and do it.
Think of the possibilities! If we can get people from around the world, from different walks of life to collaborate openly on solving problems. This network could surely move mountains. I wonder if Homer-Dixon needs some help writing his book…
