Good Time for Sustainable Food Growth Workshops?
Now.
At the community level – training/information dissemination is much more useful than actually growing food at this point. (At the individual level, grow, grow, grow.)
The Security Crank
Cranky security types abound. Few blog about it though. Should be fun reading.
TCS Revamp
Interesting trend. Tata Consultancy Services is undergoing controlled fragmentation, breaking itself up into 23 individually managed component businesses that share a common platform. However, the 23 new CEOs are those who rose up the ranks of the old TCS. That’s a problem.
This signals that Chandra (the new overall CEO + Managing Director) doesn’t get the full extent of what he’s attempting to do. He’s transforming an industrial-era hierarchical behemoth into a post-industrial firm. Decentralization is just one component. The talent channels that yielded these CEOs stifle innovation as a fact of life. He needs entrepreneurs, not managers and shouldn’t confuse the two. Cultural shift.
The Homebrew Industrial Revolution
Kevin Carson of the Center for a Stateless Society has put together this report. (More timely than any DC think tank.)
Idea: Fear Vector: The Game
If the creators of Modern Warfare 2 really wanted to reveal the evils of terrorism, they would have had you play as a civilian in that airport (rather than a terrorist on a rampage). The marketing spin fluff aside (it’s sensationalist, not social commentary, not that it really matters when there are dollars involved), there’s potential for a follow-on game here.
Fear Vector. Based on this book (The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes – and Why) players have to run, jump, scream, climb, crawl their way through various nightmare scenarios.
(Copyright myself and FantomPlanet.)