Serendipity and Milton's First Folio The First Folio of Shakespeare's work ranks among the rarest of books. Only about 230 copies survive. One copy of the Folios donated to the Free Library of Philadelphia included long ignored marginalia. It turns out that serendipity had a role to play in rediscovering Milton's First Folio copy hundreds of years after the author's death. By … [Read more...] about Serendipity and Milton’s First Folio: Discovering Milton’s Annotated Copy of Shakespeare’s First Folio
Serendipity Economy
Why Micah Zenko’s “Red Team” Lives in The Serendipity Economy
I was listening to a Hear & Now interview with Micah Zenko, author of Red Team: How to Succeed By Thinking Like the Enemy. It struck me that many of the issues related to terrorism and cyber-attacks stem from the propensity of those working in the management of intelligence systems. Managing systems that require security do so under industrial age economic models … [Read more...] about Why Micah Zenko’s “Red Team” Lives in The Serendipity Economy
The NSA Spying Program Value Fits the Serendipity Economy Model
I was listening to Warren Olney's To the Point on the radio today as they discussed the NSA spying program PRISM (listen here: NSA Spying Program Puts Secretive Court in the Spotlight). One of the questions fit into The Serendipity Economy framework.: How does the government determine the value of the program? No one could offer a valid proof of value. Why? -- Because the … [Read more...] about The NSA Spying Program Value Fits the Serendipity Economy Model
Desperately Seeking A New Natural Satellite or Renew the Space Race and Find Our Adventurer’s Soul
As I write this, I am sitting in Washington D.C. The airwaves and the newspapers are filled with talk of sequestration, with the debate over frugality and investment. In all of this drab procedural inflection we lose the spirit of leading that should be emanating  from this city. I've already documented that when the government invests time in thinking big thoughts, we become … [Read more...] about Desperately Seeking A New Natural Satellite or Renew the Space Race and Find Our Adventurer’s Soul
Dan at 2012 KMWorld: ‘2012 KMWorld Conference: A social, interactive view of KM’
In his presentation on "The Serendipity Economy," strategist and author Daniel W. Rasmus drew a distinction between industrial age measures of productivity, which focus on predictable outputs and process improvements, versus the creation of value that cannot be defined or predicted in advance but deserves equal consideration. In the same way that having an office next door to a … [Read more...] about Dan at 2012 KMWorld: ‘2012 KMWorld Conference: A social, interactive view of KM’
