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theartofanimation: Robson Borges

Thu, 03 May 2012 17:32:19 -0400

theartofanimation:

Robson Borges

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thedame: freesynapsemaps: nevver: Beware I love artists I...

Thu, 03 May 2012 16:11:17 -0400

thedame:

freesynapsemaps:

nevver:

Beware

I love artists

I am SO dangerous!

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danceabletragedy: Tea for the Owl in the moonlight by...

Thu, 03 May 2012 16:06:20 -0400

danceabletragedy:

Tea for the Owl in the moonlight by IrishShells

comicbookartwork: Spider-Man In Black Suite

Thu, 03 May 2012 15:34:11 -0400

comicbookartwork:

Spider-Man In Black Suite

art—life: Shane McAdams For more art visit Art—Life!

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 16:56:53 -0400

art—life:

Shane McAdams

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art—life: Lori Alexander For more art visit Art—Life!

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 14:51:54 -0400

art—life:

Lori Alexander

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nandacorrea: Listen To The Song T-shirt Design for Camiseteria

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:14:11 -0400

nandacorrea:

Listen To The Song

T-shirt Design for Camiseteria

bgarbee: river. watercolors/multimedia. brendan garbee

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 23:59:57 -0400

bgarbee:

river. watercolors/multimedia.

brendan garbee

art—life: Unknown For more art visit Art—Life!

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 19:35:58 -0400

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Unknown

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vintage-beautiful: Ted Withers via old car guy 41

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 17:30:11 -0400

vintage-beautiful:

Ted Withers

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lulubonanza: Harley Quinn by *jiuge

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 17:11:17 -0400

lulubonanza:

Harley Quinn by *jiuge

Reptar!!

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 16:12:05 -0400

Reptar!!

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lovebeingcolored: loveanddrevenge: Martanael LOVE

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 01:35:57 -0500

lovebeingcolored:

loveanddrevenge:

Martanael

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perhakansson: I finished reading the brilliant book...

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 01:32:44 -0500

perhakansson:

I finished reading the brilliant book Monoculture: How One Story Is Changing Everything by F.S. Michaels yesterday. It argues - and rightfully so - that we live in a world where one single perspective has become the sole driving force behind everything. That perspective is the economic story. In the current mind-numbing paradigm we believe that the market can solve all our human problems and anything that cannot be defined within this limited view is not worth pursuing.

We are conditioned to believe that we are purely consumers and encouraged (well, really not) to vote with our wallets. We should dutifully except products that are only good enough and not great as that is what it means to be a great and patriotic [insert any nationality].

The solution, says F.S Michaels is not to single-handedly fight the economic story but to create parallell structures, like the Slow Food Movement that started in Italy and spread across the world. Slow Food is a real people movement, not a consumer group. It’s about growing, cooking and eating real food and in the human tradition enjoying the intrinsic rewards: pleasure, happiness, friendship and health.

By understanding how powerful this story is and how it changes the way we think, act and interact we can rethink and innovate our lives as individuals and human beings. When I read the book I came up with dosens of ideas for new projects that could be developed into parallell structures.

I mentioned this in a tweet to F.S Michaels and she responded, asking how it can be applied to disruption and innovation. [How thrilling isn’t it to have the author of the book you just read respond to you within hours.]

Reading the book opened up my mind to the thought of how we can redesign and rethink our society so that it becomes more human. The reason lots of people are technophobic is that we used technology during the industrial era in a very dehumanizing and passive way. We now have an opportunity to change that and the networked world is ushering in different kind of rules and values: honesty, authenticity and transparency.

I like to think that all the new collaborative tools created by very creative startup teams is a parallel structure, enabling us to combine the economic story with more individual freedom. The same goes for the cottage industries and crowd-sourced projects that are evolving across the world. Projects that would never see the light of day in the traditional, industrial economic story but are emerging as parallell structures.

My personal contribution is the upcoming book Working The Future where I argue that we need to switch from passively accepting how we should live our lives to actively hack our lives to create our desired lifestyles. Note that these are not lifestyles defined by brands, advertising and marketing but by ourselves and what matters to us.

It’s looking at the world as open source and building on top of what have already been created; adapting, altering and adding new value so that it works for you and possible for many more.

The best way of “innovating” the economic story is to give away your best ideas for free, to share them with the world to encourage critical thinking, conversation and human progress. It’s very hard to shut down a great idea that turns into a global movement. I’m saying that knowing that history is littered with examples of the contrary. But maybe this time it’s different?

I must find this book! Sounds like a great read.