Innovators and Maintainers
Innovators are nothing without maintainers to keep those innovations working: we forget that at our peril. Innovation is what a
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disruptive innovation
Of digital riptides and original sin — was the decline of newspapers inevitable?
Matthew Ingram does a good job of doing a retrospective on the state of newspapers and questioning the fit their
Read moreMuch Ado About MOOC
It’s fair to imagine that one of the 2013 ‘words of the year‘ will be MOOC (which is not really
Read moreDisruption by Design
If we are to expect that the fields most connected to social action and the promotion of wellbeing are to contribute to our betterment in the future, they need to change. Disruptive design for programs, services and the ways we fund such things is what is necessary if these fields are to have benefit beyond themselves. Long past are the days when doing good was something that belonged to those with a title (e.g., doctor, health promoter, social worker) or that what we called ourselves (e.g., teacher) meant we did something else unequivocally (e.g., educate). Now we are all teachers, all health promoters, all designers, and all entrepreneurs if we want to be. Some will be better than others and some will be more effective than others, but by disrupting these ideas we can design a better future.
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