Last month I received an intriguing email inviting me to an event at Kimberly Wiefling’s house. I’d met Kimberly before through Jonathan Trent, as part of the work I’ve been doing to help out...
This popped up today: (thanks, Ray Podder!) Of course. It’s a Bucky Ball.
Inattention to critical knowledge is an old problem. Lessons are forgotten, near misses are ignored, caution is dismissed, disasters result. Titanic. Bhopal. AIG. Katrina. Fukushima. And on and on. Knowledge Management (KM) is supposed...
The goal of World Makers is to encourage people to build computer simulations of the world. This includes simulating water, weather, crops, land use policy or anything else. Models can be regional or global,...
As computer scientists, one of our first lessons is about “big O” complexity of software. It’s used to understand the expected time for a program to run. “Big O” theory tells us that it’s...
I rode the train on a beautiful spring day through New England. Arriving at the station, a few guys from our partner company greeted me happily; we were going to win this one. We...
Since thinking so much about levers in the last two posts, I’ve also been pondering the variety of levers I’ve built and seen, and the different purposes they serve in a decision model. ...
We are shifting our thinking style to accommodate a much more complex and interdependent world than we have faced in the past. Consider: In 2014, Google purchased Deep Mind, formerly a UK-based startup with...
