Edward Harran

New Economy, New Wealth

New Economy, New Wealth on Prezi

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How Microphilanthropy is Changing Giving by Peter Deitz from Social Actions

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Minhaly Csikszentmihalyi

To overcome the anxieties and depressions of contemporary life, individuals must become independent of the social environment to the degree that they no longer respond exclusively in terms of its rewards and punishments. To achieve such an autonomy, a person has to learn to provide rewards to herself. -Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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The Great Indoors

The inner world is as vast as the outer one.
Unexplored territories.
Oceans of wisdom.
Mountains to conquer.
Tribes to encounter.
Discoveries waiting to be found.

Start exploring.
Become a navigator within.
The inner world is waiting for you.

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TedxNewYorkEducation Tweets

RT @acarvin: Meyer quotes Einstein: "The formulation of a problem is often more essential than its solution." #TEDxNYED

Current math textbooks are the functional equivalent of watching 2 1/2 Men. #TEDXNYEd

@JeffJarvis: "Educators, like journalists, need to become more curators than creators." <<< YES! #curation

#TEDxNYED @JeffJarvis: "Fuck the SAT." We need to stop this culture of standardized testing and standardized teaching. YES.

#TEDxNYED @JeffJarvis: "We have to stop thinking of education as a product but, rather, as a process."

"Never let schooling interfere with your education." ~ Mark Twain, quoted by Neeru Khosla at #TEDxNYED

@brainpicker is tweeting awesome stuff.

#TEDxNYED @JeffJarvis: Schools should become incubators, not factories.

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Pivot Labs - Is Pivot a turning point for web exploration

When we have a efficient, more natural method to navigate knowledge, to connect dots, will this led to collective wisdom?
Will Pivot be the first step in helping us bring organic order to information and data?
Will it allow us to make connections and thereby see reality in new, meaningful ways?
How will this lead to greater social change , when we, ordinary humans, will be given the ability to see things/ connect things that are relevant to us?

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The Life Investment Running Notes ( 3 hours after Event)

Brief Reflection/ Takeaways ( Post 3 hours after the event):

Aka "Braindump"

- The classic entrepreneurial vs managerial dilemma. We have heard the story before - social entrepreneur starts venture. Venture ( especially non-profit) is hard to become self-sustainable. Social entrepreneur full capacities are not maximized because he is working on just trying to keep his/her venture on the ground. Transition period from leaving venture to new venture is difficult.t. Is "Life-investment" model the answer for creating a platform for serial social entrepreneurs? The Entrepreneur is generally a bit insane - and need mechanisms to continue exploring his insanity to bring social change.

- Is this really anything new? Patrons support artistic ventures knowing that the work will go into the public space and benefit/ bring cultural education to the community. Is this not the same? Patrons investing in people, whose work goes into the public space, gives holistic value not just to the investor, but the communities it touches.

- The danger of the hero myth in social innovator circles?

- A lot of concern about legal / structural setup of all this model, which was beyond me frankly. All the investor/income mumbo-jumbo - need to deepdive a bit into that further

- Greg from Odawalla mentioned the term "Value ecosystems" ( or was it supply chains? Can't recall the exact semantic term)
 Got me thinking a lot about "Holistic Value Investment"
Put simply like this.
Economics is about value, not prices right?
There are lots of forms of value - social capital value, finanical value, knowledge value, personal value, leisure value, knowledge value.
All these values are always being exchanged.
These values are all interconnected - flowing in a very Toaist sort of way. Scarcity and Abundance principles really. Flowing also in short term and long term as well. When you give one, you take another.
Very simple. The basic laws of interconnectedness really?
Everything affects everything else.

So,
1) We need to develop value investment models that take into account EQUALLY  the importance of different value investment - that can be transparency understood, measured and exchanged.
2) In my head, atm, Life Investment model represents this:

-> Finanical value that allows people with abudnance in 1) knowledge value 2) social capital value 3) empathy value but lack of 1) attention value 2) mental stabilty value

We should be investing not just in causes/organisations, but the overall "industry", if you could call it that. Supporting social innovators to keep innovating in different realms, not just a cause. People get cause fatigue. People are not their organisation. We need to support on a grass-level those who want to do good. FInanical capital is the biggest struggle for social innovators.
Plus I like the "humaness" of the whole concept. Humans investing in humans. Just seems more real.

- Great to meet @nlw for first time.

- Oh yeah, I had a good chat with a dude talking about the food industry. See: http://www.foodincmovie.com/about-the-issues.php

- Looking forward to hearing more about BayAreaSF. Will definitely have to get involved with that - see how Palomar5, Edurelief, Sandbox and other things can get involved with it all.

- Probably didn't grasp everything that was discussed. Will have to read through "Life Investment" Google Wave again, read through discussion on change.gov / social edge.

The English dude sitting next to me recorded the conversation - @HubBayArea, can you put it up online?

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The Extinction of the Expert

"The leaders and experts of tomorrow have to be either polymaths (deep multi-domain experts), curators (those who collect or collate different domains), polyglots (the overlay and meaning makers), or all three." Denise Gershbein

Frog Design - Extinct of the Expert -> Great Article, definitely worth a read

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Forget the knowledge economy - let's look towards the wisdom economy

The knowledge economy always wants more. The wisdom economy understands the concept of 'enough'. Wisdom asks what profit there is in gaining the world and losing our soul. It understands that a person's life doesn't consist in an abundance of possessions. Wisdom understands prosperity as a state of sufficiency; knowledge strains for the next big idea and tramples what stands in the way.

The knowledge economy demands qualifications. The wisdom economy insists on qualities. Qualifications can be excellent, but they do not make you a better worker or even a better thinker.

The knowledge economy is technological. The wisdom economy is human. The knowledge economy is quick to see technical fixes and tends to assume we're only one invention away from the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. The wisdom economy sees technology as a tool and is more interested in how it is deployed. It seeks to test technology for its contribution to human wellbeing, rather than taking it as a given that technology will add to human wellbeing.

The knowledge economy is competitive. The wisdom economy is collaborative. The knowledge economy assumes that if we can know that bit more than others, we will get what they have or keep them from getting what we have. It believes in dog eat dog. The wisdom economy says dogs do better when they hunt in packs. It sees knowledge as something to be shared and built collaboratively. It is highly suspicious of the intellectual property industry and the crowd of litigators and branding experts who hang on its coat-tails. Where the knowledge economy is amoral - your disadvantage is of no concern as long as I am succeeding - the wisdom economy accepts at a profound level that your disadvantage is my problem.

The knowledge economy is political. It is a Big Idea that governments can wave around in the hope that they've captured a zeitgeist. It is sexy and attracts 'thought leaders' and corporate egotists who want to wield power and influence. The wisdom economy is personal. It begins with an understanding of self and of others: that I do not succeed by gaining your envy, but by winning your respect.

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The center

In the midst of uncertainty,

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