Kevin Kelly
Kevin Kelly
children let-it-go lines
It's more along the lines of raising a child: we train the system to a certain range of behaviors that we find most useful. But then we let it go, because we don't want to have to be babysitting it the whole time.
technology minimum amount
Find the minimum amount of technology that will maximize your options.
care evolution make-sense
Evolution doesn't care about what makes sense; it cares about what works
technology self firsts
Clearly, we are self-made. We are the first technology. We are part inventor and part the invented
opportunity unique clients
A complaint is a unique opportunity to strengthen the relationship with the client.
organization growth limits
The only organization capable of unprejudiced growth, or unguided learning, is a network. All othertopologies limit what can happen
organization
An organization's intelligence is distributed to the point of being ubiquitous.
understanding literature impossible
The current understanding was that it was impossible to predict how something would evolve because it was a very turbulent environment full of things interacting with each other.
organization literature sometimes
Organizations get invested into a particular product. And sometimes the best thing is to stop making that product, even though it's profitable, because it has optimized at a local peak.
literature complexes
Everything that we are making, we are making more and more complex.
top-down trying literature
But in a turbulent environment the change is so widespread that it just routes around any kind of central authority. So it is best to manage the bottom-up change rather than try to institute it from the top down.
views entrepreneur feedback
How do entrepreneurs survive their early failures? They don't view their failures as failures - they view these experiences as feedback, and a prelude to future success.
technology media years
Attention deficit is no longer the supposed domain of Generation Y's who were brought up on a diet of social media and new technology. A recent study revealed 65 percent of 55-64 year olds surf, text and watch television simultaneously.
goal mind outcomes
My major goal in business was to learn. I had legislated in my mind for failure the worse possible scenario was I would learn a lot regardless of the outcome. This goal was the foundation for success of the business. Peldi, Balsamiq