Baruch Spinoza gav upplysningstiden mer bränsle än de flesta andra. Han var dels en tänkare som var djärv nog att uppmana människor att tänka och undersöka tillvaron på egen hand. Utöver det ägnade han sig åt att tillverka verktyg som underlättade för samtiden att göra just det. Han slipade nämligen glas som användes i teleskop och … Read more
Litet sandkorn välter ofta stora idéer
April 3rd, 2012 | Posted by in Systemic | Turquoise | Yellow - (2 Comments)Är en hubot en hen?
March 24th, 2012 | Posted by in Systemic | Uncategorized | Yellow - (0 Comments)Vi lever i en historiskt sett speciell tid. Å ena sidan har förutsättningarna för mänsklig samvaro förändrats i efterdyningarna av industrialismen. Även de som lever i icke-industrialiserade delar av världen påverkas i och med att industrialismens döttrar, masskonsumtion och globalisering, sträcker sig in över områden som i övrigt är underutvecklade. För dessa människor, som mentalt … Read more
What business people can learn from developers
March 17th, 2012 | Posted by in Orange | Personal | Practical | Systemic - (2 Comments)You heard it all before. We´re going through a paradigm shift, which calls for a new thinking. However, as with all paradigm shifts the location of power gets shifted. From what I´ve understood of what´s going on now the locus of power shifts from the centers of the networks towards the periphery of the networks. … Read more
The Meme is the Massage
December 20th, 2011 | Posted by in Personal | Practical | Social | Systemic | Turquoise - (0 Comments)
I believe McLuhan was right and that we´re just starting to feel it. Since the interconnected electronic world became more or less open (and is still opening up) we get a medialized mental environment – on steroids. Memes swoosh over the world bashing into each other, from little short-lived and often bizarre memes to value-memes … Read more
The Search for Meaning – the Marketing Prophets Might be in for a Suprise
December 18th, 2011 | Posted by in Systemic | Yellow - (0 Comments)
The marketing world, which nowadays holds more prophets than the western religions, has spoken about meaning for many years now. People, it is said, are looking for meaning when they buy things or participate in cultural events. Even when they go to work as Tamara J. Erickson writes in Harvard Business Review blog post Meaning is … Read more
Data-Driven Humanism – or, if I had my own Google to play around with
December 5th, 2011 | Posted by in Personal | Practical | Systemic | Turquoise - (0 Comments)If I had my own Google to play around with – I´d spend the ad revenue on open research answering questions like who we are, how culture is created and how our minds work using data mining at the intersection of psychology and linguistics. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin proposed a fusion between the naturalistic evolutionary perspective … Read more
A way to make sentiment analysis work
December 2nd, 2011 | Posted by in Practical | Systemic | Yellow - (0 Comments)Just like words have different meanings depending on context, the positive or negative charge of an expression depends on the belief system of the audience. The Swedish company Gavagai, the birth place of and more famous Recorded Future that was recently funded by Google and CIA, have a simple and elegant solution to the problem of … Read more
En liten betraktelse om varthän vi tycks på väg
November 30th, 2011 | Posted by in Turquoise - (0 Comments)
Allting kan betraktas “inifrån” och “utifrån”. Det är lättast att begripa när det kommer till människor. Min upplevelse och vår upplevelse av varandra är att betrakta från insidan. Våra kroppar och den fysiska och språkliga (!) miljön är att betrakta från utsidan. En fallenhet för att betrakta från den ena eller andra sidan är källan … Read more
The Future of Facebook: psychographic text analysis
October 27th, 2011 | Posted by in Systemic | Yellow - (0 Comments)If you are a CTO you won´t get fired for buying IBM. Or at least that´s how it used to be. Today, if you are a head of marketing for a big firm you won´t get fired for buying demographically targeted ads. Especially when they are spiced with some psychographic variables such as self-reported interests. … Read more
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