Category Archives for Thinking
Shlok Vaidya’s thinking.
Thoughts on New Orleans Social Entrepreneurship
I’ve had the opportunity over the last couple weeks to spend some time with the nascent NOLA social entrepreneurship ecosystem. It’s been pretty cool. For example, I met an amazing couple that’s growing a backyard garden that has transformed into a … Continue reading
Occupy Wall Street, Botnets, and Thousand-Year Storms
Looks like traditional political thinkers are missing the mark altogether (the protests are ‘flailing without purpose’, ‘just rage’,’just jealous’ etc). A more useful analytic framework is to think of the protests as a form of a botnet. Why? Because the … Continue reading
“Quality,” Simonton writes, is “a probabilistic function of quantity.”
A genius is a genius, Simonton maintains, because he can put together such a staggering number of insights, ideas, theories, random observations, and unexpected connections that he almost inevitably ends up with something great. Source -Shlok Sign up for my … Continue reading
Design: Modernist Chair
As I work on MiiU, I am thinking visually on a variety of problems. All share the goal of building stuff in a cheap, locally produceable, DIY way. In particular, I’m trying to marry this to the modern aesthetic I … Continue reading
Considering softshelter Slums
The softshelter project is “a system for creating personal space within a larger shelter area in order to provide individuals and families with a sense of privacy and encourage community-building in the days following a disaster.” Let’s put aside for a … Continue reading