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laughingsquid: ArtBloc, A Mobile Art Venue Made of Two Shipping Containers but you have to be able to move the shipping containers around, and so you need to have two tractors, or be in a state/municipality that allows double length trailers. Oh, and you’ll need a crane that can lift the second container. Visually, though,…
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Almost two generations of human beings have been educated and socialized to think in terms of universal selfishness. “We need to get the incentives right” has been the watchword for anyone engaged in designing any kind of interaction, organization, or law. “What’s in it for him/her/us?” is the question we have trained ourselves to ask…
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In order to foster cooperation, it is critical to set up systems that appeal to participants’ intrinsic motivations—that is, what they want to do from within—instead of systems based on monitoring people and rewarding or punishing them according to their behavior. Two facts make this tough to implement. First, intrinsic motivation is in its infancy…
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But really, should we even care if the books weren’t read? They’re talismanic, remember. They exist principally as super-filters, as evokers of an implicit world. It’s like ambient music: you may not even notice it’s playing, but it gives you thoughts you wouldn’t have if commercial pop were playing in the background. The books evoke…
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gbattle: Turntable.fm’s co-founder Billy Chasen has his business on lock, literally. You don’t use keys to enter Turntable.fm’s HQ, you send a text message from a white-listed phone number and voila, it opens. This is a much smarter, safer and cheaper option than handing out a ton of keys. UPDATE: This won a Twilio prize…