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09
Mar 2010

How Microphilanthropy is Changing Giving by Peter Deitz from Social Actions

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09
Mar 2010

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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07
Mar 2010

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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06
Mar 2010

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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04
Mar 2010

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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04
Mar 2010

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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03
Mar 2010

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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01
Mar 2010

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.


via Sustainablecitiescollective

What is the Wisdom Economy to you?

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16
Feb 2010

The center

In the midst of uncertainty,

In the ravine of doubt,
In the world of complexity,

Understand your center.
Know that inner peace is only a breathe away.
Breathe, observe and be still.

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16
Feb 2010

Palomar5 newsletter - Feb'10

Palomar5 newsletter
So here it is, the first issue of the Palomar5 newsletter. This is a great tool to keep us all updated in a way a 28@palomar5.org email was unable to. To maintain this momentum, the synchronization between Berlin, San Francisco, and all the Palomar5 people, it makes no sense in us updating you, but in you updating each other. This tool is a focused channel.

Fill it with life, stories of success and failure, tell where Palomar5 points its ears, reaches its hands, spreads its wings. We're a team, let's act as such. The Berlin folks make a first step in showing it all.
Welcome to the Palomar5 shoutout)))


Recap - January 2010

Palomar5 in 2010

After an adventurous 2009, an intense experience for us all at the camp and more than a year of fighting to make Palomar5 happen we had to recover in December and the first part of January to summon our energies. Back to the office in January, we pimped the Berlin Hub and the beauty operations are still ongoing. 
 
But then in the last week of January it drew us to the mountains, where we reenacted the camp experience with the 6 of us trapped in a small apartment in the alps. Besides some skiing the week gave us time to reconnect to the vision of Palomar5 and led us to decide that we had to be more radical this year in order to bring Palomar5 to the next level. Many ideas were tossed around and different scenarios illustrated but we decided to give us more time to develop and also integrate, you, network partners, investors and clients more into the development process. 
Thus we do not want to create a rigid product and then try to sell it to investors but co-develop it together with those who understand our philosophy and can help us grow beyond our own capabilities.
This week however has not changed our main pillars which are: 
 
- building up a global network of interdisciplinary innovators under 30
- creating spaces where radical experimentation can take place
- and dealing with emerging topics at the fuzzy frontend of innovation that have major impact on the way our society works
 
This means that this year there might not be one big camp as last year but various activities focused on the experimentation with different formats. We call these formats playgrounds, as we think that there must be a lot of freedom to experiment be a bit silly in the spirit of Steve Jobs: Stay hungry, stay foolish. As a consequence we are also trying to find partners that understand that good things need some time and who have at least around two years of patience and drive to be an active part of the process.
 
Another important point is that we also want to experiment with the way we organize Palomar5 as an initiative and try to prototype what some call a networked organization. We want to abandon the classical hierarchical systems and structure P5 more as a flexible network. While we at the question of organization one of the top goals for P5 in 2010 also is to try learn more about the notion of a cultural organization that gives all the players in the network the opportunity to influence the direction and adjust it on the go. 
 
The hubs, which are the first playgrounds that we are working on, will be the basis on top of which we want to develop many more prototypes. We are looking forward to see many events in Berlin and San Francisco in the next months. 
 
Considering all the above, 2010 for us is a year to build a big framework for Palomar5, think beyond only the camp and being enablers that help you as best as we can so that you can focus on your projects and turn them into a success. 
We are looking forward to build something really radical together with you!


People update
Maybe some of you have already found out that starting with this year Pippa and Tina no longer will work with us at Palomar5.  We find it fair to announce this officially. Pippa left us at the end of January, as she will soon start writing her PhD in Maastricht.  And since Palomar5 requires a lot of time and a strong state of mind, she decided for her PhD and not for us.  Next week on the 17th of February we will organize a “Bye –Bye “  together dinner here at our office. Thank you Pippa for being one of us… we’ll cross our fingers for you.
Tina, our engaged event manager, thanks to whom we always had drinks, booze, Bionade and food during the camp and the mother of our lovely mascot Roxy,  left us as well. She is now working at the Malzfabrik for the guys from Mesami, again as event manager. Thank you Tina for the patience you’ve always shown.
Hans has moved back to Maastricht where he’s finishing his studies, that’s why he is not honoring us with his presence  at the moment.  Since he will be a daddy soon, somewhere in April/May, we still don’t know exactly when he will join us again. We’ll keep you updated!
Jonathan, Dominik, Pippin,  Simon, Mathias, Laurent and Georgi are still in the office and active Palomar5 roster.

Palomar5 goes San Francisco
Migration to the San Francisco Hub has started. Axelle, Gijs, Eddie and Sagarika have arrived in San Francisco to join Maryanna, Max and the GAFFTA crew. From the P5 Team Mathias and Pippin will follow in the first week of March. We expect as many of the P5 community to stop by there as possible, while meeting lot's of new people from GAFFTA and the bay area. The lease period of our spaces is from 1st of February until the 31st of May. This does not mean that the HUB will end after that. This time was defined together with GAFFTA as a pilot-project so that we can test if it makes sense for Palomar5 to permanently stay in San Fancisco. Hopefully we will either continue at GAFFTA or move to a new own space after the testing period. The HUB-idea was born during the camp as a first step towards long-term variations of the camp-model - besides providing a new and international basis for the projects to grow on. If we really want to shake and bake, we need to reach more people. Let's face it, Europe may think it's the cradle of history, but there's more to life on earth! In San Francisco we also want to look for partners that are willing to take bigger risks, to share their network with us and help Palomar5 develop and grow. The point of San Francisco is to enter a whole new ball game on the level of the projects and of P5 as a whole.

DTAG Meeting
Once again it was our pleasure to have a meeting with Deutsche Telekom in Bonn. It included a feedback session with a round of experts, that were involved during the Camp. Jonathan and Dominik listened closely to their points of view regarding the Camp. Everybody really loved the creative energy and atmosphere, some had the opinion, that more structure would have been useful from time to time and some still didn't understand the whole concept behind but all were really interested and wanted to go on one way or the other. The most important outcome of the meeting was that DT confirmed, what C. Schläffer already announced last year: they will partly sponsor Palomar5 again this year, if there is at least one other company involved as a sponsor. Also we didn't negotiate the details so far, this is of course a good thing, because as you might know, C. Schläffer leaves DT in March and we were not 100% sure, if his "promise" will also count in a DT without him. Btw. we still don't know what company he'll go to...

Palomar5 at Silicon Sentier
Axelle, Magalie, Dominik and Simon presented Palomar5 at "La Pipinière" on the 3rd of february in Paris. "La Pipinière" is a part of Silicon Sentier. They do a lot of events, have co-working spaces and will probably have something like a residency program in the near future. Round about 70 people came to listen and discuss, another 250 joined via live stream. We made some nice contacts and got interesting ideas and will work together with Silicon Sentier to help each other. We try to go on with the discussion here.

Palomar5 at Brainstore
Chris, Basti, Axelle, Loek, Jessie and Jay had a micro reunion at Brainstore mid of January. The purpose was to go there and act as guides for the future (through an exhibition) on the first day and participate in their brainstorming method the second. We ended up facilitating brainstorming sessions on the first day, we rocked it and they were happy. Going through process showed us how much organisations are willing to pay for such experiences, and also what flaws there are in existing "canned creativity" systems. In short big opportunities for Inspire Bureau/P5 arse kicking team/Punk/Show me love however we choose to brand it.

Palomar5 at Symposium für Systemdesign
Jonathan went to present Palomar5's approach on designing creative collaborative spaces at the Symposium for Systemdesign in Kassel. Besides many interesting questions, we got good recommendations of related projects & initiatives to connect with.

To Culture with Love.Management, Czech Republic
Jonathan hosted an interactive work- and playshop on how to deal with creative people at the "To culture with Love.Management"-Workshop, taking place this weekend in BRNO, czech republic. It was good to spread the Palomar5-spirit also to the eastern part of Europe where most of the countries haven't heard about us.

Open Design Workshop
OpenDesign Work-/ Playshop @betahaus
Pictures (by the betahaus network)

As part of the Social Media Week, that took place in 6 cities around the globe from 1st to 5th of February, an amazing team powered by Jay, Chris and Mendel, showed what is possible and pushed the boundaries as usually with a cooking station for bioplastics, 3D-printing makerbot by bausteln, laZzercutter and so much more fun stuff. In a very creative and relaxed atmosphere people experimented with new materials, built sticky, reusable plastic post-its, lamps out of bottles, moving toys and so much more, all in the spirit of "Delivered in Beta". Coverage in Make magazine (here). Gabriel Shalom also created a great "immediated" documentary of the event and the importance of Open Innovation (here).

I AM DISPLAY goes Fusion
"I Am Display" has had a fantasic premiere and caused many positive reactions at this years Club Transmediale in Berlin. The installation will continue to be shown in the exhibition "Esemplasticism: The Truth is a Compromise" until the end of the month.  Furthermore "I Am Display" has been invited to legendary Fusion Festival where it will be exhibited on the slope of a former aircraft-hangar end of June. The Display2000 team has received several other requests from festivals and will try to keep exhibiting at high quality events while looking for funding to develop the display's technology and experiment with new concepts.

Palomar5 at transmediale
After much deliberation and procrastination of what to do at transmediale, we decided that the best thing to do would be to just rock up with a load of tools, cushions, Talk to Me Bubbles, and friends. Chris rocked the Bioplastics, Philip Steffan brought the MakerBot, Jessie improvised a workshop on MS paint, Laurent showed his light graffiti stuff and Vali spent some time sparking conversations - which resulted in him chatting up some hot Chinese girls. Meanwhile I was wrapped in plastic sheet inviting people to draw on me. We had good fun, everybody who showed up enjoyed it and in the words of the organiser we "rocked".

Space Camp
Camp participant Kosta has been invited by the Telekom Entrepreneurship Program to Berlin to further discuss of how they can support the Human Right Initiative's next steps. He could secure some funding for further research activities. It's still a long road to go, but we're coming a step closer to the big vision: offer the human mankind broadband internet access basically for free.

Palomar5 in german TV
Palomar5 has been part of a TV broadcast called Digital Natives on 3Sat. One of the main protagonists is Basti! It's in german but if you want to watch it you can find it here.

Palomar5 - The movie
Most of you have probably discovered it on our website already, but if not make sure you check out our 60-min documentary about the Palomar5 camp. It can be watched in HD quality for free here. Props go out to our filmmaker Patricia Günther again who spent an extensive amount of time on the editing.

Geolocation
On the right side of this newsletter you'll find the Gelolocation category showing the exact positions of the Palomar5 members. This makes it easier for the 28 fellows to get track of each other, maybe spontaneously meet each other or forward interesting contacts in the respective areas.

@palomar5-addresses
Concerning the @palomar5-emails, if you're interested in having one, please contact Mathias (mh@palomar5.org). He'll set it up asap. But please use the email adresses wisely and everytime in the spirit of Palomar5.

Upcoming - February 2010

Palomar5 at WDHB
We not only like the name of the company "Warm decent human beings" - but we also like their approach to broaden the perspective of executives with so-called by diving into inspiring companies and environments throughout their Learning Expeditions. So we're happy to welcome one of their groups on March 17th in our Berlin Palomar5 base. The goal is to share our way of thinking, acting, communicating and networking-building within 90 minutes.

Palomar5 at Querdenkerforum
On March 25th, we are invited to play a leading role in the next "Querdenkerforum" in Düsseldorf, where we 100 executives, innovations managers and journalists are expected to show up. We will take them on a Palomar5 journey, identifiy their desires for a more creative corporate environment and culture. This should be a fun session, as we also plan to involve the people in San Francisco hub in real-time and make use of collaborative brainstorming via Twitter.

Palomar5 - the book
The P5-Book-Project has to major goals: 1. Prototype a new collaborative process for developing a book (and re-thinking "books" as a whole) 2. Using this experiment to start discussions with exciting people and organisazions (door opener for usefull partners of any kind). This endeavour will automatically produce new "content" for the book - besides that, there will have to be an analysis and consolidation of existing content i.e. "what we all learned and experienced with P5".
If we want, this project can involve nearly every aspect and every individual within Palomar5.

Manifesto
We are working on a manifesto that defines our values and pinpoints, Palomar5's raison d'être. We will open up the process as soon as we have written down a proper basis for discussion. As soon as we agree on the manifesto, we will all - as tradition has it - sign it! (offline that is! - no digital signatures)

Berlin hub office tour
Laurent and Pippin will put together a short movie-portrait of the P5 Berlin Headquarters.

Question of the week

Playgrounds
We like questions. Questions are great! We also like rituals. So we'll ask one question in every newsletter! You don't have to awnser. But remember, if you don't awnser you're a terrorist!

Here we go: We would like to start building very advanced "playgrounds". Something like a permanent camp. Spaces of great trust, spaces of great freedom to think, live, experiment, to search for ones true desires - and to realize them, to search for ways to improve your life - and that of many others. Think of the time when you were a little child. You were free from many ideological constraints of society, you could just play, be so very curious, ask anythink, believe anything, trust whithout doubt, feel what is right in your heart and act upon it, you lived by your basic insincts - but, you were just a stupid baby. Now you have developed huge brains and crazy talents, but you have lost some of this freedom, you have become a bit tainted and a bit maddened by your progressing life. We want to create spaces that reverse these effects. What would you want in a space that gives you back this freedom? What would you desire your ultimative playground to look like?

Collect answers here.

If you managed to read until here, consider yourself a badass motherfucker. As this was our first attempt and we had to recapitulate a lot of stuff, we plan to shorten it in the next issues. If you have any feedback on this tool, please contact me (lh@palomar5.org).

This week's newsletter is dedicated to Brad.

Thanks a lot for your patience, and always remember, we're not a5ne in this.


Events

Mobile World Congress,
Barcelona 15.2.-18.2.

Geolocation (if not home)

Kosta,
Berlin 8.2.-12.2.
then NYC, Boston, LA, SF (bastard)

Suyash,
Barcelona 15.2.-18.2.

Laurent,
Luxembourg 12.2.-15.2.

Jonathan,
Czech Republic 13.2.-14.2.

Inspiration

Yay, this category should be for some inspirational stuff, but as this newsletter is far too long already, there's just a small chuckle for this time: here.


 

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