Venkat

Venkat is the founder and editor-in-chief of ribbonfarm.

875 posts

2024-10-10 Ribbonfarm is Retiring
2024-08-17 Truth-Seeking Modes
2024-08-15 Intellectual Menopause
2024-07-14 Imagination vs. Creativity
2024-06-14 Covid and Noun-Memory Effects
2024-06-05 Bangalore Meetup Report
2024-05-24 Going Sessile
2024-05-14 Arbitrariness Costs
2024-05-12 Decision Brownouts
2024-05-12 News from the Universe
2024-05-03 Sons of the Soil, Migrants, and Civil War,
2024-05-02 There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm
2024-04-16 The Dark Forest Anthology of the Internet
2024-04-16 Stack Map of the World
2024-04-12 Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities by Bettany Hughes
2024-04-07 Storytelling — Philosophical Stakes
2024-04-01 History is More Like Science Fiction Than Fantasy
2024-03-18 Harberger Tax
2024-03-14 Protocol Entrepreneurship
2024-03-13 Storytelling — Just Add Dinosaurs
2024-03-08 My Post-AI Writing
2024-03-07 Matter and Life
2024-03-05 Civilizational Functionalism
2024-03-02 Poison-Depilling Problems
2024-02-23 Economics Memes
2024-02-21 Four Modes of BDFxing
2024-02-17 Cozy Hypertext for the Dark Forest Web
2024-02-15 The Dark Forest Marketing Agency
2024-02-14 Mediocratopia: 13
2024-02-07 BDFxing, Or Post-Charismatic Distributed Leadership
2024-02-06 A Tale of Two Kits
2024-02-02 Thoughts on XMTP
2024-02-01 The Bartleby Trough
2024-01-31 Lego Soup
2024-01-24 Unknown Knowns
2024-01-23 Can Robots Whittle?
2024-01-18 Adventures in Mediocre Sweetmaking
2024-01-17 Why Monsters Are Dangerous
2024-01-17 Universal Kit Template
2024-01-11 Accretive Growth Logics
2024-01-10 Knowledge Management
2024-01-09 Does AI Have Buddha Nature?
2023-12-28 2023 Ribbonfarm Extended Universe Roundup
2023-12-21 Charnel Vision
2023-11-09 Touching Transistors
2023-11-02 The Future of the Blogosphere
2023-10-23 Vastness
2023-09-07 Worlds in Waiting
2023-07-13 Worldly, Yet Carefree
2023-07-06 The Resourceful Life
2023-06-14 Hello Again, Seattle
2023-05-04 Life After Language
2023-04-20 Storytelling — The Penumbra of Mortality
2023-04-05 Permissionless Research
2023-03-30 Tessellations for the End of History
2023-03-16 Report Cards
2023-03-09 Summer of Protocols
2023-03-01 Salt-Seeking
2023-01-26 Bracketverse -- I
2022-12-29 2022 Ribbonfarm Extended Universe Roundup
2022-12-07 Worldwinds
2022-11-17 The Art of Gig Books
2022-11-03 Storytelling -- End-Times Tales
2022-09-29 Ark Head
2022-09-22 Tangle Logic
2022-09-16 ε/δ Thinking
2022-09-08 September 2022 Blog Update
2022-08-10 Narrative Slipstream Effects
2022-08-04 A Dreaming World
2022-07-28 Tubeworld
2022-07-13 Storytelling -- Tellability
2022-07-07 Virtue Degeneracy
2022-06-23 What is a Life?
2022-06-02 Storytelling -- Mediocre Metamodernism
2022-05-26 Infirmity
2022-05-18 Crisis Mindsets
2022-05-05 The Map
2022-04-28 Elderblog Sutra: 13
2022-04-21 The Ribbonfarm Lab
2022-03-30 Fermi Estimates and Dyson Designs
2022-02-23 Divergentism
2022-02-10 Tools
2022-01-20 Animation Sublimation
2022-01-12 Storytelling -- Narrative Wet Bulb Temperature
2022-01-06 Random Acts of X
2021-12-29 2021 Ribbonfarm Extended Universe Annual Roundup
2021-12-06 Thinking in OODA Loops
2021-11-09 Jumping into Web3
2021-11-03 Ghost Protocols
2021-10-27 MJD 59,514
2021-10-20 Mediocratopia: 12
2021-10-05 Storytelling -- Cringe and the Banality of Shadows
2021-09-30 MJD 59,487
2021-09-20 Mediocratopia: 11
2021-09-02 MJD 59,459
2021-08-10 MJD 59,436
2021-07-29 Mediocratopia: 10
2021-07-22 The Retiree
2021-07-01 MJD 59,396
2021-06-24 Storytelling -- Matthew Dicks
2021-06-17 Storytelling -- Mamet's Conflict Airing Theory
2021-06-04 Non-Contact
2021-05-27 Space Luck
2021-05-20 MJD 59,354
2021-05-13 Comet Bob
2021-05-03 Storytelling -- The American Tradition
2021-04-22 MJD 59,326
2021-04-19 MJD 59,323
2021-03-18 Kinds of Potential
2021-03-11 Elderblog Sutra: 12
2021-02-16 Storytelling -- Harmon vs. McKee
2021-02-11 MJD 59,256
2021-01-25 Domestic Cozy: 13
2021-01-21 Nostalgia for Network Effects
2021-01-06 Boilerplate Advice
2020-12-31 2020 Ribbonfarm Extended Universe Annual Roundup
2020-12-29 Notes: Pale Rider by Laura Spinney
2020-11-16 MJD 59,169
2020-11-10 MJD 59,163
2020-10-29 MJD 59,151
2020-10-23 MJD 59,145
2020-10-21 MJD 59,143
2020-10-14 Clockmaking: 2
2020-10-06 MJD 59,128
2020-10-04 Mansionism 2: Bungalows
2020-09-30 Notes: The Marshall Plan by Benn Steil
2020-09-16 Notes: The Starship and the Canoe by Kenneth Brower
2020-08-26 The Stack: A Love/Hate Story
2020-08-24 Notes: Astounding by Alec Nevala-Lee
2020-08-13 Clockmaking: 1
2020-07-30 Elderblog Sutra: 11
2020-07-14 Notes -- Freedom's Forge by Arthur Herman
2020-07-06 Notes: A Distant Mirror by Barbara Tuchman
2020-06-25 Mansionism 1: Building-Milieu Fit
2020-06-04 MJD 59,004
2020-05-21 New E-Book, and a Portfolio Update
2020-05-07 Leaking into the Future
2020-04-23 Quarantine Art
2020-04-14 Liminality?...Well, there's a free sample!
2020-04-12 Now Reading: Pandemic Edition
2020-04-07 Pandemic Dashboard: 3
2020-04-02 Pandemic Dashboard: 2
2020-04-01 Scorpio Season: A New Talk Show
2020-03-23 Pandemic Dashboard: 1
2020-03-18 Domestic Cozy: 12
2020-03-09 Plot Economics
2020-02-24 A Text Renaissance
2020-02-18 Weirding Diary: 11
2020-02-13 Domestic Cozy: 11
2020-02-10 MJD 58,889
2020-01-24 How To See Voids
2020-01-18 MJD 58,866
2020-01-16 The Internet of Beefs
2020-01-07 MJD 58,855
2020-01-06 MJD 58,854
2020-01-03 MJD 58,851
2019-12-31 Complete 2019 Roundup
2019-12-16 Domestic Cozy: 10
2019-12-13 Disassembling the Empathy Machine
2019-12-10 Making Meaning
2019-12-06 The Ovaltine Moment
2019-12-03 Automontage
2019-11-25 Elderblog Sutra: 10
2019-11-19 The Other Simulation Hypothesis
2019-11-15 The Galactic Numerology Collision
2019-11-13 Mediocratopia: 9
2019-11-12 AI And Human Digitization: When Seeing Is Not Believing?
2019-11-08 Spatial Intelligence: Architecture as a Giant Computer
2019-11-05 From Pseudoevents to Pseudorealities
2019-11-04 Domestic Cozy: 9
2019-11-01 Plannar -- Co-Visioning with AR
2019-10-29 The City as Weakly-Escaped Reality
2019-10-25 Introducing Xenoreaction
2019-10-22 Value Investing in Cults and Religions
2019-10-18 Escape' Reality Presents - A Timeshare Opportunity
2019-10-15 Observability and Time
2019-10-11 PermaPunk - Visionary Non/Fictions
2019-10-08 Becoming the Internet
2019-09-25 Elderblog Sutra: 9
2019-09-23 Domestic Cozy: 8
2019-09-17 Weirding Diary: 10
2019-09-16 Mediocratopia: 8
2019-09-10 Elderblog Sutra: 8
2019-09-04 Worlding Raga 7: Worlds of Worlds
2019-08-16 Multitemporality: 1
2019-08-05 Domestic Cozy: 7
2019-08-01 Mediocratopia: 7
2019-07-22 Domestic Cozy: 6
2019-07-17 Weirding Diary: 9
2019-07-16 Mediocratopia: 6
2019-07-09 Elderblog Sutra: 7
2019-07-04 Semi-Annual 2019 Roundup
2019-06-27 Regenerations
2019-06-20 Reflections on Refactor Camp 2019
2019-06-13 Refactor Camp Livestream This Weekend
2019-06-10 Mediocratopia: 5
2019-05-30 The Age of Diffraction
2019-05-27 Weirding Diary: 8
2019-05-20 Domestic Cozy: 5
2019-05-09 A New Newsletter: The Art of Gig
2019-05-06 Domestic Cozy: 4
2019-04-25 Worlding Raga: 5 -- World How?
2019-04-23 Elderblog Sutra: 6
2019-04-15 Mediocratopia: 4
2019-04-12 Domestic Cozy: 3
2019-04-08 Weirding Diary: 7
2019-04-04 Escaping Reality: Refactor Camp 2019, Los Angeles, June 15-16
2019-04-01 Weirding Diary: 6
2019-03-21 Constructions in Magical Thinking
2019-03-18 Elderblog Sutra: 5
2019-03-15 Domestic Cozy: 2
2019-03-14 Worlding Raga: 3 -- Slouching with God
2019-03-12 Weirding Diary: 5
2019-03-07 Mediocratopia: 3
2019-03-04 Domestic Cozy: 1
2019-02-21 Worlding Raga: 1
2019-02-19 Elderblog Sutra: 4
2019-02-18 Weirding Diary: 4
2019-02-14 Breaking Smart Season 1 Online Workshop
2019-02-12 Mediocratopia: 2
2019-02-11 Elderblog Sutra: 3
2019-02-08 Mediocratopia: 1
2019-02-05 Elderblog Sutra: 2
2019-02-04 Weirding Diary: 3
2019-01-31 Elderblog Sutra: 1
2019-01-30 Weirding Diary: 2
2019-01-24 Weirding Diary: 1
2019-01-17 Stack Luck
2019-01-10 Remembering Pierre Kabamba
2019-01-03 Happy 2019
2018-12-26 Complete 2018 Roundup
2018-12-20 Why We Slouch
2018-11-21 The Age of Early Divinity
2018-11-08 May You Live in Epic Times
2018-10-25 The Speakeasy Imagineering Network
2018-10-18 Unflattening Hobbes
2018-10-16 Seattle Drinks-and-Waterfront-Walk Meetup, Friday 19th
2018-10-11 Pack Experience
2018-09-20 Dodo Thoughts
2018-09-13 London Visit Next Week, Three Events
2018-09-11 Think Entangled, Act Spooky
2018-08-30 How Do You Value a Human Being?
2018-08-23 Flying Blind into the Anthropocene
2018-07-24 Armpit Futures
2018-07-19 Quiver Doodles
2018-07-10 Into the Fediverse
2018-07-03 Semi-Annual Roundup, 2018
2018-06-14 Chekov's Gun and the Principle of Sufficient Reason
2018-05-29 Reality Maintenance
2018-05-12 Refactor Camp 2018 Livestream
2018-05-03 The Art of Longform
2018-04-24 Survival of the Mediocre Mediocre
2018-03-29 The Key to Act Two
2018-03-06 A Quick (Battle) Field Guide to the New Culture Wars
2018-02-20 2018 Annual Letter
2018-02-15 Make Your Own Rules
2018-01-30 The Elephant in the Brain
2018-01-09 Boat Stories
2017-12-21 Complete 2017 Roundup
2017-12-14 A Glitch in the Theocratic Matrix
2017-11-30 Prolegomena to Any Dark-Age Psychohistory
2017-11-09 CEOs Don't Steer
2017-09-14 How to Make History
2017-08-31 The Rust Age: A Four-Volume Collection
2017-08-17 The Premium Mediocre Life of Maya Millennial
2017-07-13 Crash Early, Crash Often
2017-06-27 Been There, Done That
2017-06-13 Ten Years of Refactoring
2017-06-06 Thingness and Thereness
2017-05-25 Blockchains Never Forget
2017-04-25 One Weird Longform Trick...on the Blockchain!
2017-03-30 Nobody Expects The Mongolian Earthship
2017-03-23 Bourbon Crossing
2017-03-21 The Winter King of the Internet
2017-03-07 Sulking Through a Subprime Presidency
2016-12-21 The Computational Condition
2016-11-23 When Tools Shape You
2016-11-10 King Ruinous and the City of Darkness
2016-11-01 Ribbonfarm Longform Blogging Course: Nov 10 - 22
2016-10-18 Can the European Union Break Smart?
2016-10-11 Radical Candor
2016-09-27 Mapping Organizational Realities
2016-09-22 Speak Weirdness to Truth
2016-08-25 The Liminal Explorer of the Adjacent Possible
2016-08-11 Trace of the Weirding
2016-07-28 Fat Thinking and Economies of Variety
2016-06-23 The Principia Misanthropica
2016-05-26 How to Take Your Brain Off-Road
2016-05-19 Examining the Accidental Life
2016-04-28 Immortality Begins at Forty
2016-03-31 Human-Complete Problems
2016-03-22 Berliners #11: Snowflaking Out
2016-03-08 Berliners #10: Pie-Carving
2016-02-25 The Epic Struggle between Good and Neutral
2016-02-09 Berliners #9: The Scent of a Yak
2016-02-02 Podcasts with Longform and Farnam Street
2016-01-26 Berliners #8: Red String
2016-01-19 Berliners #7: Organic, Free-Range Chicken and Egg
2016-01-14 Berliners #6: Purgatorinomics
2015-12-23 Complete 2015 Roundup
2015-12-17 We Are All Architects Now
2015-12-08 Berliners #5: Grandparents
2015-12-01 Can You Hear Me Now?
2015-11-17 Berliners #4: Cactus and Weasel
2015-10-27 The Berliners #3: Sparring Session
2015-10-22 Distinctions and Differences
2015-10-20 The Berliners #2: This is Important
2015-10-15 Climate Change Op-Ed
2015-10-13 The Berliners #1
2015-10-06 Alice and Bob Discover Capitalism
2015-09-29 What is the Largest Collective Action, Ever?
2015-09-22 Significance Appreciation
2015-09-17 How to be a Precious Snowflake
2015-09-08 The Greater Ribbonfarm Cultural Region 2015
2015-09-01 Breaking Smart Afternoon Workshop, and Evening Meetup, London, Sept 11
2015-08-25 Learning is the Opposite of Healing
2015-08-18 Extraordinary Laboratories
2015-08-13 Executive Engagement
2015-08-11 Low Humanity Orbit
2015-08-04 The Four Forces for Sociology
2015-07-30 The Chinese Compressibility Parable
2015-07-28 Breaking Smart
2015-07-21 Inbox Zero versus Flow Laminar
2015-07-14 New Horizons
2015-07-01 A Neptune Kid, Waiting to Always-Already Know Pluto
2015-06-18 The Boydian Dialectic
2015-06-12 The Things You Carry
2015-05-28 The Amazing, Shrinking Org Chart
2015-05-20 Pretending to Care, Pretending to Agree
2015-05-01 Roundup: January - April 2015
2015-04-15 The Capitalist's Zombie
2015-04-02 The Art of Gig III
2015-03-26 The Art of Gig II
2015-03-19 The Art of Gig
2015-03-12 The Art of Agile Leadership
2015-02-25 The Mother of All 2x2s
2015-02-24 Colin Dickey: Tempo Shifts
2015-02-18 A Dent in the Universe
2015-02-02 Refactor Camp 2015: Narrative
2015-01-16 On the Design of Escaped Realities
2015-01-01 Black Mirror as Hell-Is-Other-People Futurism
2014-12-22 Complete 2014 Roundup
2014-12-18 Learning from Crashes
2014-12-11 Striving, Surviving, Suffering and Slacking
2014-12-02 The Future of Tipping
2014-11-20 Learning to Fly by Missing the Ground
2014-11-16 When Monitoring a Behavior Makes it Worse
2014-11-05 Don't Surround Yourself With Smarter People
2014-10-29 Crash-Only Thinking
2014-10-12 I Will Not Rest Until...
2014-10-08 The Adjacency Fallacy
2014-09-03 How to Fall Off the Wagon
2014-09-02 When is a Year not a Year?
2014-08-27 Why Sleeping-In Makes You More Tired
2014-08-26 The Creation and Destruction of Habits
2014-08-20 The Veil of Scale
2014-08-12 The Economics of Pricelessness
2014-08-06 Seoul Station
2014-08-05 The Four Seasons of Lifehacking
2014-07-30 The Heirloom Lounge
2014-07-23 Structure Follows Context
2014-07-17 How Different Cultures Understand Time
2014-07-16 Close Encounters of the Missing Kind
2014-07-09 Effort Shock and Reward Shock
2014-07-02 Roundup: January - June 2014
2014-06-25 Language and Strategy
2014-06-25 Portals and Flags
2014-06-18 The Physics of Stamp Collecting
2014-06-16 Time, Money and Bandwidth
2014-06-12 Everyone is Special
2014-06-11 The Deliberate Practice of Disruption
2014-06-05 The Rumsfeld Behavioral Landscape
2014-06-04 Saints and Traders: The John Henry Fable Reconsidered
2014-05-29 Artistic Forestry: 2014 Annual Letter
2014-05-20 The Logic of Uberreaction
2014-05-19 Frustration Effects and Curse of Optimality
2014-05-10 Two Examples of Narrative Time
2014-05-08 Science! and Other Off-the-Wall Études
2014-04-24 Product-Driven versus Customer-Driven
2014-04-16 A Life with a View
2014-03-20 The Message is the Medium
2014-03-10 Reboot Travel vs. Pause Travel
2014-03-06 Immortality in the Ocean of Infinite Memories
2014-02-27 Demons by Candelight
2014-02-24 Packaging-Heavy Projects
2014-02-20 The Cactus and the Weasel
2014-02-10 Running Lean, Running Fat
2014-02-07 An Information Age Glossary
2014-01-27 Discovery-Heavy Projects
2014-01-15 Resident Bloggers for 2014: Sam, Jordan, Kartik, Keith
2014-01-15 Refactor Camp 2014: Computing and Culture
2014-01-13 When Finishing is Easier than Starting
2014-01-10 Consent of the Surveilled
2014-01-01 Free, as in Agent
2013-12-30 New Year's Resolutions as Self-Directed Camp
2013-12-23 Complete 2013 Roundup
2013-12-16 Maintenance Thinking
2013-12-09 Our Diurnal Civilization
2013-12-09 The Three Clocks of Trial and Error
2013-11-19 Deep Play: An Impressionistic Theory of Innovation
2013-11-13 The Gooseberry Fallacy
2013-11-11 Is Decision-Making Skill Trainable?
2013-10-31 On Staying Grounded
2013-10-24 On Lifestyle Rigidity
2013-10-18 Frictional and Structural Unknowns
2013-10-11 The Mother of All Disruptions
2013-10-02 Truth in Consulting
2013-09-25 Rough Books for Roughening School
2013-09-12 The Exercise of Authoritah
2013-08-28 Roundup, May-August 2013, September in Bay Area, Sponsorship Update
2013-08-26 On Thinking Caps
2013-08-14 An Archetypes Map
2013-08-11 Personality Ambidexterity: Or How to Turn Yourself Inside-Out
2013-08-08 On Freedomspotting
2013-07-31 The Quality of Life
2013-07-23 Inside the Miscellaneous Folder
2013-07-10 You Are Not an Artisan
2013-07-01 Coincidences and Correlations
2013-06-26 Players versus Spectators
2013-06-24 Lagrangian and Eulerian Decision-Making
2013-06-17 Extrovert-Introvert Fog
2013-06-11 New York City Meetup on Wednesday, 12th June
2013-06-06 On the Unraveling of Scripts
2013-05-30 Aphorisms: Collection 1
2013-05-21 Schleps, Puzzles, and Packages: Solving Complex Problems the Iron Man Way
2013-05-16 The Gervais Principle VI: Children of an Absent God
2013-05-14 Deliberate Practice versus Immersion
2013-05-09 Roundup, January-April 2013
2013-04-29 Sensitive Dependence on Paperwork Conditions
2013-04-25 Branches and Roots: 2013 Call for Sponsorships
2013-04-10 A Beginner's Guide to Immortality
2013-04-08 Overtake on the Turn, Overwhelm on the Straight
2013-04-03 The Locust Economy
2013-04-01 Why Habit Formation is Hard
2013-03-26 Allowing Personality to Flow
2013-03-22 Social Dark Matter: On Seeing and Being Seen
2013-03-18 How Many Steps Do You Really Look Ahead?
2013-03-13 The Dead-Curious Cat and the Joyless Immortal
2013-03-11 Tempo Interview on 'Smart People Podcast'
2013-02-28 Binoculars versus Cameras
2013-02-28 The National Day of Unplugging
2013-02-19 The Cloistered Hedgehog and The Dislocated Fox
2013-02-15 Adventures in Amateur Talking-Headery
2013-02-13 Resilient Like a Fox
2013-01-31 Stone-Soup for the Capitalist's Soul
2013-01-28 Jailbreaking the City: Announcing Refactor Camp 2013
2013-01-17 Data is Eating Clocks
2013-01-16 Eternal Hypochondria of the Expanding Mind
2013-01-11 Refactorings Extended: Please Welcome Mike, Drew and Kevin
2013-01-02 Schumpeter's Demon
2012-12-30 Roundup of 2012 Tempoblog Posts
2012-12-19 Complete 2012 Roundup
2012-12-14 The Ultimate Lifestyle Planning Guide and Map
2012-12-08 Should You Count Near-Misses as Successes or Failures?
2012-11-27 Patterns of Refactored Agency
2012-11-23 Talk on Kool Aid, VUCA Discussion, Tuesday Nov 27 at USC (Los Angeles)
2012-11-19 Notes on Spatial Metaphors for Social Systems
2012-11-14 Jason Ho on Cultivating a Jiu-Jitsu Mindset
2012-11-05 At Home, in a Car
2012-10-31 Deskless in Seattle, Future of Data Survey
2012-10-29 The Examined Life
2012-10-23 Navigating the Holey Plane
2012-10-15 Economies of Scale, Economies of Scope
2012-10-04 The Abundances of Ages
2012-10-02 Annealing the Tactical Pattern Stack
2012-09-27 Cloud Mouse, Metro Mouse
2012-09-20 Money as Pain Relief
2012-09-17 Demystification versus Understanding
2012-09-11 Romanticism and Classicism (Assembly Required)
2012-08-30 The Varieties of Scientific Experience
2012-08-23 Waste, Creativity and Godwin's Corollary for Technology
2012-08-16 Realtechnik, Nausea and Technological Longing
2012-08-13 Breakout Moves and Exponential Outcomes
2012-08-09 The Interesting Times Triangle
2012-07-31 The Guerilla Guide to Social Business
2012-07-30 Literary Darwinism
2012-07-24 Happily Almost Ever After: Towards a Romantic Account of Détente
2012-07-16 Positioning Moves versus Melee Moves
2012-07-13 The Generalized Hawthorne Effect
2012-07-10 My New Book Project, Upcoming Talks in Los Angeles and Malmö, Sweden
2012-07-09 Stress Failures versus Decay Failures
2012-07-03 Five Years of Blogging
2012-07-02 Not Important, Not Urgent
2012-06-25 Fertile Variables and Rich Moves
2012-06-20 The Mysteries of Money
2012-06-18 Analysis-Paralysis and The Sensemaking Trap
2012-06-13 Getting Ahead, Getting Along, Getting Away
2012-06-11 Appreciative versus Manipulative Mental Models
2012-06-05 Towards an Appreciative View of Technology
2012-06-04 Time Lensing
2012-05-31 The Art of Refactored Perception
2012-05-28 Forged Groups
2012-05-24 Roundup: January - May 2012
2012-05-21 The Daily Ugly
2012-05-17 Discussion Note: Sartre's Nausea vs. Future Nausea
2012-05-14 How Life Imitates Chess by Garry Kasparov
2012-05-09 Welcome to the Future Nauseous
2012-05-07 Creative Desks versus Administration Desks
2012-05-03 Rediscovering Literacy
2012-04-30 The 6-Hour Maker-Manager Work Day
2012-04-26 Thinking in a Foreign Language
2012-04-25 Go Deep, Young Man: 2012 Call for Sponsorships
2012-04-18 Hacking the Non-Disposable Planet
2012-04-16 Hacking Grand Narratives
2012-04-11 How Do You Run Away from Home?
2012-04-10 Trigger Narratives and the Nuclear Option
2012-03-29 Lawyer Mind, Judge Mind
2012-03-26 The Tempo of Code
2012-03-22 Can Hydras Eat Unknown-Unknowns for Lunch?
2012-03-19 The Fundamentals of Calendar Hacking
2012-03-14 Reviewing Refactor Camp 2012
2012-03-09 Routine, but Cannot be Automated
2012-03-08 Hall's Law: The Nineteenth Century Prequel to Moore's Law
2012-03-01 The Second Most Important Archetype in your Life
2012-02-29 Just Add Water
2012-02-20 Live Life, Not Projects
2012-02-16 Glimpses of a Cryptic God
2012-02-13 Motifs, Mascots and Muses at Refactor Camp, 2012
2012-02-09 Refactor Camp 2012: Generativity and Captivity
2012-02-08 The Tempo Glossary
2012-02-07 The Greater Ribbonfarm Cultural Region
2012-02-02 How to Name Things
2012-01-28 Does Culture Eat Strategy for Lunch?
2012-01-27 Peak Attention and the Colonization of Subcultures
2012-01-19 Steer, Ready, Fire
2012-01-18 The World is Small and Life is Long
2012-01-11 Seeking Density in the Gonzo Theater
2012-01-06 2012 Reading List, January - June
2012-01-04 Squeakastination: The Opposite of Procrastination
2011-12-22 Tempo: Year One
2011-12-21 Complete 2011 Roundup
2011-12-15 How the World Works: Part II
2011-12-08 Acting Dead, Trading Up and Leaving the Middle Class
2011-12-07 What Really Happened Aboard Air France 447
2011-12-02 Tempo now available on the Nook
2011-12-01 How the World Works
2011-11-29 The Pomodoro Technique
2011-11-21 The Towers of Priority
2011-11-21 Tempo Now Available on Kindle
2011-11-16 The Evolution of the American Dream
2011-11-11 Technology and the Baroque Unconscious
2011-11-03 Ribbonfarm Field Trip #3: Computer History Museum, 11/19/2011
2011-11-02 A Pilgrimage through Stagnation and Acceleration
2011-10-26 Three Deep Videos and a Roundup
2011-10-25 Thrust, Drag and the 10x Effect
2011-10-19 The Quest for Immortality
2011-10-14 The Gervais Principle V: Heads I Win, Tails You Lose
2011-10-13 Tempo Review on BoingBoing by Cory Doctorow
2011-10-06 New Forbes Blog, Economist Video
2011-10-04 The Stream Map of the World
2011-10-03 Mental Models and Archetypes Explained
2011-09-29 Ubiquity Illusions and the Chicken-Egg Problem
2011-09-23 The Milo Criterion
2011-09-22 Forgivable Sloppiness: The Art of Epoch-Driven Time Management
2011-09-12 The Gervais Principle in New York, and Friday 9/16 NYC Meetup
2011-09-08 Fixing the Game by Roger L. Martin
2011-08-31 Bandwagon Timing verus Biding Your Time
2011-08-26 The Scientific Sensibility
2011-08-24 New Research on Decision Fatigue
2011-08-19 The Calculus of Grit
2011-08-17 Daemons and the Mindful Learning Curve
2011-08-12 The August Reading List Freeze
2011-08-10 A Proposed Grand Narrative for the History of Debt
2011-07-31 On Being an Illegible Person
2011-07-24 Chet Richards' Review of Tempo on Fabius Maximus
2011-07-22 Tempo and OODA: The Backstory
2011-07-21 Houseboats, Containers, Guns and Garbage: the 2011 Ribbonfarm Field Trip
2011-07-14 Diamonds versus Gold
2011-07-13 Storytelling for Problem-Solving
2011-07-07 The End of the Parade
2011-06-30 California Visit: July 11 - Aug 4, including a 4th Anniversary Field Trip
2011-06-29 The Four Kinds of Economies
2011-06-24 Semi-Annual Roundup 2011 and Highlights for New Readers
2011-06-24 Kindle Edition Status, Glossary, Global Availability, Road Trip Contd.
2011-06-16 The Las Vegas Rules II: Stuff Science
2011-06-08 A Brief History of the Corporation: 1600 to 2100
2011-06-03 Towards Thick Strategy Narratives
2011-06-02 The Las Vegas Rules I: The Slightly Malevolent Universe
2011-05-31 Review at Zenpundit.com
2011-05-24 Dulce Domum
2011-05-24 Dulce Domum
2011-05-24 IARPA Starts Metaphor-Based Decision-Making Research
2011-05-21 Timepass and Boredom
2011-05-18 How Clock Time Replaced Narrative Time
2011-05-17 The Best Chips in the World
2011-05-17 Mississippi Flooding
2011-05-16 Startup Deathwatch in Memphis
2011-05-16 Week 3: Memphis, St. Louis, Omaha, Carhenge, Deadwood, Yellowstone
2011-05-16 Week 3: Memphis, St. Louis, Omaha, Carhenge, Deadwood, Yellowstone
2011-05-16 Strategies, Counter-examples and the UnAha! Experience
2011-05-15 On Ritual Time
2011-05-14 The Author's Journey and the Blogger's Journey
2011-05-12 Functional Fixedness and Kata Learning
2011-05-12 Freytag Staircases in Nashville
2011-05-09 Week 2: Ann Arbor, Nashville, Atlanta, New Orleans
2011-05-09 Week 2: Ann Arbor, Nashville, Atlanta, New Orleans
2011-05-09 Time Travel for Ghosts
2011-05-08 Darwin, Some Rationalists and the Joker
2011-05-08 Peak Oil and the Tempo of the Earth
2011-05-07 My Experiments with Introductions
2011-05-07 Talking Temporal Illegibility in Montreal
2011-05-05 Why Some Drives are Fun
2011-05-04 The One Way of the Beginner
2011-05-04 Haircuts and the Guy Clock
2011-05-04 An Evening of Pace, Pace, Lead with Chuck
2011-05-03 Island Time vs. Mainland Time
2011-05-02 Week 1: DC, Wilmington, Albany, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto
2011-05-02 Week 1: DC, Wilmington, Albany, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto
2011-04-28 The Tempo Road Trip
2011-04-21 The Russian Fox and the Evolution of Intelligence
2011-04-21 The Tempo Road Trip
2011-04-07 Extroverts, Introverts, Aspies and Codies
2011-03-31 Tempo Stealth Edition
2011-03-24 Say Hello to "Barbarian," the Crowd-Funded Ribbonfarm Laptop
2011-03-10 The Return of the Barbarian
2011-03-01 Where the Wild Thoughts Are
2011-02-23 Memories of Namdapha
2011-02-10 Waiting versus Idleness
2011-02-02 The Disruption of Bronze
2011-01-19 Boundary Condition Thinking
2011-01-06 The Gollum Effect
2011-01-01 How Leveraged are Your Resolutions?
2010-12-21 Ribbonfarm Complete 2010 Roundup
2010-12-13 Update on Tempo
2010-12-07 Socratic Fishing in Lake Quora
2010-11-29 What Does it Mean to Work Hard?
2010-11-19 Ribbonfarm is Now Mobile-Friendly (Sort Of)
2010-11-16 What Entrepreneurs Can Learn from the Poor
2010-11-06 The World of Garbage
2010-11-05 Ancient Rivers of Money
2010-10-27 Warrens, Plazas and the Edge of Legibility
2010-10-20 Coloring the Whole Egg: Fixing Integrated Marketing
2010-10-14 The Gervais Principle IV: Wonderful Human Beings
2010-10-07 How Good Becomes the Enemy of Great
2010-09-28 Learning from One Data Point
2010-09-21 The Seven Dimensions of Positioning
2010-09-14 Cricket as Metaphor
2010-08-30 Morning is Wiser Than Evening
2010-08-25 Interested in Guest Posting on Ribbonfarm?
2010-08-17 The Greasy, Fix-It 'Web of Intent' Vision
2010-08-15 Cultural Learnings of Blogosphere for Make Benefit Glorious Blog of Ribbonfarm.
2010-08-09 How to Take a Walk
2010-08-03 Down with Innovation, Up with Imitation!
2010-07-28 Wanted: A Book Cover Designer for \"Tempo\"
2010-07-26 A Big Little Idea Called Legibility
2010-07-22 The Right Question, Review of Shallows, Insight vs. Mind-Candy
2010-07-20 The Happy Company
2010-07-13 The Eight Metaphors of Organization
2010-07-07 Becalmed in the Summer Doldrums
2010-06-30 The Philosopher's Abacus
2010-06-24 WOM, Broadcast and the Classical Marketing Contract
2010-06-16 The Missing Folkways of Globalization
2010-06-09 Digital Security, the Red Queen, and Sexual Computing
2010-06-03 Three Off-Ribbonfarm Posts
2010-05-27 In the Real World...
2010-05-19 Intellectual Gluttony
2010-05-12 A Bumper May Harvest of Good Reading
2010-05-06 Two Interesting Gervais Principle Follow-Ups
2010-05-04 The Lords of Strategy by Walter Kiechel
2010-04-28 Be Slightly Evil
2010-04-14 The Gervais Principle III: The Curse of Development
2010-04-12 Four-Hour Workweek or Executricks?
2010-04-08 Against the Gods by Peter Bernstein
2010-04-01 An Elephant, Some Batteries and Julianne Moore
2010-03-23 Amy Lin and the Ancient Eye
2010-03-18 The Turpentine Effect
2010-03-16 Ribbonfarm Facebook page, Twitter Feed, Posterous
2010-03-13 Linchpin by Seth Godin, and 8 Other Short Book Reviews
2010-03-07 An Infrastructure Pilgrimage
2010-03-01 The Expedient, Desirable Product
2010-02-17 Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor
2010-02-13 Safar aur Musafir: The Hero's Journey in Bollywood
2010-02-11 Guest Post on VentureBeat on the iPad
2010-02-09 Bright-Sided by Barbara Ehrenreich
2010-02-04 The Genealogy of the Gervais Principle
2010-01-28 The Misanthrope's Guide to the End of the World
2010-01-23 Impro by Keith Johnstone
2010-01-20 The Ribbonfarm Posterous
2010-01-17 \"Up in the Air\" and the Future of Work
2010-01-13 Conceptual Metaphors (Mashable), Gervais Principle (Fugitive Philosophy)
2010-01-09 Drive by Dan Pink
2010-01-07 On the Deathly Cold
2010-01-04 Predictions 2010 (on Silicon Angle)
2010-01-02 2009 Roundup, 2010 Preview
2009-12-27 Work-Life Balance: Juggling, Spinning or Surfing? (Rerun)
2009-12-22 How to Make New Year's Calibrations (Rerun)
2009-12-16 The Right and Left Brains of Enterprise 2.0
2009-12-13 Random Promotions and the Gervais Principle
2009-12-07 Social Objects: Notes on Knitting in America
2009-12-01 Pricing in Pay-It-Forward and Gift Economies
2009-11-21 Morality, Compassion and the Sociopath
2009-11-11 The Gervais Principle II: Posturetalk, Powertalk, Babytalk and Gametalk
2009-11-05 One Good Thing About the 'Flu
2009-10-30 Baital Pachisi: An Indian Vampire Meta-Story
2009-10-26 Fear of Improvisation (and Clunkers)
2009-10-14 Hello to Slashdotters, Gervais Principle Follow-Ups
2009-10-07 The Gervais Principle, Or The Office According to "The Office"
2009-10-02 A Brewing Storm in Psychology
2009-09-28 The Tao of Frogger
2009-09-23 The Allegory of the Stage
2009-09-17 Your Evil Twins and How to Find Them
2009-09-14 Knowing and Caring
2009-09-09 Time and Money: Separated at Birth?
2009-09-03 The Manager on Labor Day
2009-08-31 How to Think Like Hercule Poirot
2009-08-27 The Outlaw Sea by William Langewiesche
2009-08-24 The Pregnancy Metaphor
2009-08-19 On Going Feral
2009-08-16 The Tragicomic Exasperations of Expertise
2009-08-12 Two Manipulative Ways to Close Conversations
2009-08-10 Humor as Massage
2009-08-06 On Seeing Like a Cat
2009-08-03 The Brain of the World
2009-07-29 The Book as a Social Signal
2009-07-21 The Crucible Effect and the Scarcity of Collective Attention
2009-07-17 Cloudworker Board Game Revisited
2009-07-07 The Epic Story of Container Shipping
2009-07-01 The Rhetoric of the Hyperlink
2009-06-22 Neurotic Leaders, Paternalistic Managers and Self-Absorbed Workers
2009-06-15 Marketing, Innovation and the Creation of Customers
2009-06-07 Zen and the Art of Google Wave Mechanics
2009-05-28 The Hunter-Gatherer Theory of Markets and Shopping
2009-05-21 Bay's Conjecture
2009-05-15 The Discovery of Money
2009-05-05 Ribbonfarm at the Crossroads
2009-04-20 How to Draw and Judge Quadrant Diagrams
2009-04-15 Coworking: \"I'm Outta Here\" by Jones, Sundsted and Bacigalupo
2009-04-08 Design and Architecture
2009-03-31 The Slash Effect
2009-03-26 The Tragedy of Wiio's Law
2009-03-20 Succession Planning: Marshall Goldsmith vs. Eric Raymond
2009-03-11 Neatness, Organization and Unsociability
2009-03-02 Fools and their Money Metaphors
2009-02-21 The Solemn Whimsies of Larry Morris
2009-02-17 The Training of the Organization Man
2009-02-10 Health and the Happy Hamster
2009-02-03 Who: The A Method for Hiring by Smart and Street
2009-01-30 Trust in the Age of Twitter
2009-01-23 Enculturation Recapitulates Civilization
2009-01-18 The Cloudworker, Layoffs and The Disposable American
2009-01-07 Allenism, Taylorism and the Day I Rode the Thundercloud
2008-12-31 Six Personal Favorites for 2008
2008-12-26 Complete 2008 Roundup
2008-12-15 How to Make New Year's Calibrations
2008-12-03 Brain Rules by John Medina
2008-12-01 Future-of-Work Mini-X-Prizes at Cloudworker.org
2008-11-23 The Ideology of the Organization Man
2008-11-18 The Organization Man by William Whyte: Introduction
2008-11-14 Spanning Silos by David Aaker
2008-11-09 Is There a Cloudworker Culture?
2008-11-05 The Cloud President, Obama
2008-11-03 The Corporate College and Other Election 3.0 Ideas
2008-10-31 My First Book, A Board Game and 'Cloudworker' on the NYT
2008-10-30 Vote for 'Cloudworker' Among Plantronics Contest Finalists!
2008-10-29 Cloudworker Economics
2008-10-23 The Cloudworker's Creed
2008-10-16 Mastering the Hype Cycle by Fenn and Raskino
2008-10-07 The Headcount Myth and the Value of Overbooking
2008-10-01 The 10 Immutable Laws of Nanoeconomics
2008-09-29 A Generational War (Guest Post on Enterprise 2.0 Blog)
2008-09-25 Crowdsourcing and The Wisdom of the Crowds
2008-09-18 Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely
2008-09-11 How to Measure Information Work
2008-09-06 Organizing to Disrupt
2008-09-04 Maslow for Market Segmentation
2008-09-01 The Bloody-Minded Pleasures of Engineering
2008-08-24 How We Fly: Aircraft as Career Metaphors
2008-08-17 The Impossibility Triangle in Talent Management
2008-08-13 Some Pointers to Thinking Styles
2008-08-10 The Future of the Internet according to Jonathan Zittrain
2008-08-05 The Next Level of the Game
2008-07-23 Acceleration as Strategy, Urgency as Doctrine
2008-07-21 Towards a Philosophy of Destruction
2008-07-17 Peter Cappelli's "Talent On Demand"
2008-07-13 Work-Life Chemistry and How to Measure It
2008-07-07 Dipity, Or, How to View Time, 2.0
2008-07-06 Happy First Birthday, Ribbonfarm
2008-06-27 From Bubbles to Cloud: The Evolution of Enterprise 2.0
2008-06-22 Theory W, Theory X and Theory Y
2008-06-20 The Three-Leaps-of-Faith Rule
2008-06-16 Roundup: March 21 - June 16
2008-06-11 Groundswell by Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff
2008-06-03 Context-Switching Metaphors for Work-Life Blending
2008-06-01 Three Great Jobs in the Fourth Xerox Revolution
2008-05-28 Outsider Innovation 101
2008-05-26 Information Overload and the FOOD IS THOUGHT Metaphor
2008-05-20 The Evolution of Work-Life
2008-05-18 Megacommunities and Macrotrends
2008-05-11 What Got You Here Won't Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith
2008-05-05 Art for Thought
2008-05-01 Jump Point by Tom Hayes
2008-04-29 The Sage of Ribbonfarm #3
2008-04-23 Ronald Coase and Salvation from Anthropological Economics
2008-04-22 The Sage of Ribbonfarm #2
2008-04-19 A Map of the World 2.0 Canon
2008-04-17 The Other Games Indians Play
2008-04-15 The Coming Triumph of the Strengths Movement
2008-04-14 The Sage of Ribbonfarm #1
2008-04-08 The New Location, Location, Location
2008-04-07 CEO Badger Picks a CSO
2008-04-05 Generation Blend by Rob Salkowitz
2008-04-03 Against Clouds
2008-04-03 Inventoritis and the Grabowski Ratio
2008-03-30 The NAE's Grand Challenges vs. Mine
2008-03-27 The Founding Fathers of Technology
2008-03-23 Johnny Bunko and the Future of Work
2008-03-21 Roundup: Jan 17 - March 20
2008-03-16 Bargaining with your Right Brain
2008-03-12 On Japan as a Robot-Loving Nation
2008-03-09 Trollope, Fitzgerald and Holmes for the Generalist's Soul
2008-03-05 The UnAha! Experience
2008-03-02 The Varieties of Innovation Experience
2008-02-25 Ambient Presence and Virtual Social Capital
2008-02-23 The Big Switch by Nicholas Carr
2008-02-21 The Blue Tunnel
2008-02-19 Entrepreneurship, Intrapreneurship and Cross-preneurship
2008-02-16 A Map of Communication
2008-02-11 Book Review and Summary: Strategic Intuition
2008-02-06 Creative Destruction: Portrait of an Idea
2008-02-04 How the Internet is Really Evolving
2008-01-31 The Broken Brain Books
2008-01-24 How to Pick Business and Self-Improvement Books
2008-01-22 Mousetrap 2.0: A Comicbook
2008-01-16 2007 Review, 2008 Preview
2008-01-14 Coarse Actions, Fine Actions
2007-12-16 Sapir-Whorf, Lakoff, Metaphor and Thought
2007-12-05 The Fine Art of Opportunism
2007-11-25 Clockspeed and Business Genetics Reconsidered
2007-11-22 Visual Thinking with Triangles
2007-11-19 The Deeper Meaning of Kindle
2007-11-17 A Surfer's Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything
2007-11-14 How to be an Idea Person
2007-11-05 The Age of Speed by Vince Poscente
2007-11-01 Personal Brands, Identity and Perception Management
2007-10-25 An MBA in Gordon's Restaurant
2007-10-22 Iron Filings on Your Brain
2007-10-15 Meditation on Disequilibrium in Nature
2007-10-09 Whales are Trees
2007-10-02 Is Jeff Bezos the New Jack Welch?
2007-10-01 Where is I?
2007-09-26 The Dawn of the Century of Food
2007-09-24 Strategy, Tactics, Operations and Doctrine: A decision-language tutorial
2007-09-19 Work-Life Balance: Juggling, Spinning or Surfing?
2007-09-15 BBC Documentary Featuring Gregory Chaitin
2007-09-13 Book-Reading Meme
2007-09-12 August-ish 2007 Roundup
2007-09-09 Digital Philosophy II: Are Cellular Automata Important?
2007-09-06 Seth Godin's Dip and Multi-armed Bandits
2007-09-04 Meditations on Cataloging the Telluride Library
2007-08-27 Dan Pink, Howard Gardner and the Da Vinci Mind
2007-08-22 The Twitter Zone and Virtual Geography
2007-08-20 Open Innovation, or is Business War?
2007-08-16 Digital Philosophy - I: The Real is Unreal
2007-08-15 Ten Years in America
2007-08-13 The Parrot
2007-08-06 Book Review: Blue Ocean Strategy
2007-08-05 July 2007 Roundup
2007-08-01 The Fifty-Foot Rule Reconsidered
2007-07-30 Breadth-Depth Metaphors and Beyond
2007-07-26 Framing the Consciousness Debates
2007-07-23 Disruptive versus Radical Innovations
2007-07-22 Book Review: Competing on Analytics
2007-07-20 Harry Potter and the Cuaron Slam
2007-07-17 Visualizing the 2d World with Cartograms
2007-07-14 The 15 Laws of Meeting Power
2007-07-13 Harry Potter and the Leaky Genre
2007-07-11 The Third Dimension is Not Simple
2007-07-08 Silos and the art of Empirical Theology
2007-07-06 Harry Potter and the Concept of Magic
2007-07-04 Book Reviews: The Trouble with Physics, Not Even Wrong
2007-07-02 The House of Tata and Indian Innovation
2007-06-21 How to Define Concepts
2007-06-20 The Silo Reconsidered
2007-06-14 Concepts and Prototypes
2007-06-13 Book Review: Wikinomics