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Tenets for Working Remotely
bitly: This was written by one of our system architects, Michael Richman, and originally posted on the Bitly engineering blog. For the past 15 years, I’ve worked as a remote employee. I currently live in Denver and work for Manhattan-based Bitly. Before that, I was on a Virginia-based team at AOL for 11 years, working…
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Our RISD: Moore = Less
Our RISD: Moore = Less ourrisd: A couple of hours ago at the Gigaom Roadmap 2013 conference in San Francisco, President John Maeda talked about How Moore’s Law is Influencing Design. His premise is that now that digital technology is no longer in its infancy, people don’t just crave more – as in more storage,…
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emergentfutures: How Long before a Driverless Car Wins the Indianapolis 500? In 1997, IBM staged a history-making competition between World Chess Champion Gary Kasparov and their own chess-playing computer, Deep Blue. Fourteen years later in 2011, IBM staged a similar competition pitting their more human-like computer, Watson, against the two top Jeopardy players of all…
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The fast-and-loose business that is emerging as the new way of work runs more like a forest or a city than machinery. We need to learn by imitating rich ecosystems, where the appearance of chaos yields to emergent order, and reject order imposed by design. Stowe Boyd, Manifesto For A Third Way Of Work (in…
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(via NEW MUSEUM TO LAUNCH AN INCUBATOR FOR ART, TECHNOLOGY, AND DESIGN! | FADWEBSITE) NEW YORK, NY…Lisa Phillips, Toby Devan Lewis Director of the New Museum, announced today that the institution is launching an incubator for art, technology, and design that will be a first for the museum field. Opening in summer 2014 in the…