Tag Archives for innovation
Some Print on Demand Thinking
In 2005, I pitched this model (deployment of publisher-run expensive print on demand machines in lieu of big box bookstores) to one of those state-run business plan competitions for college students. Was told the technology was at least a decade … Continue reading
Vaporware of Terror
A startup that should have stayed in stealth mode but didn’t. (Amplified their product too early in the cycle, couldn’t deliver.) The age of inept terrorists continues. Good police work paid off – and treating terrorism as an intense type … Continue reading
Idea: Criminal-Processing Corporate Micro-States
Here‘s a 2007 post brought back to life on how to solve Gitmo (making it cheaper, more useful, and ideally less ‘politiked’). Note, this was put together back when I was briefing academic audiences and private military corporations on the … Continue reading
Tinkering In Response to Local Threats
Stephen Ganyard has a great op-ed in the NYT today on how disasters are local and ‘flat’ training exercises (flat as in zero overhead and broad participation) can generate tinkering activity that can be used to create “$25 solutions to … Continue reading
Being Taught In School
Cool. Just learned that my work at Naxalite Rage is being used by a few colleges in Kashmir for their international relations and business programs. -Shlok Sign up for my newsletter.