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2008 (86) 2008-01-14 Coarse Actions, Fine Actions — Venkat 2008-01-16 2007 Review, 2008 Preview — Venkat 2008-01-22 Mousetrap 2.0: A Comicbook — Venkat 2008-01-24 How to Pick Business and Self-Improvement Books — Venkat 2008-01-31 The Broken Brain Books — Venkat 2008-02-04 How the Internet is Really Evolving — Venkat 2008-02-06 Creative Destruction: Portrait of an Idea — Venkat 2008-02-11 Book Review and Summary: Strategic Intuition — Venkat 2008-02-16 A Map of Communication — Venkat 2008-02-19 Entrepreneurship, Intrapreneurship and Cross-preneurship — Venkat 2008-02-21 The Blue Tunnel — Venkat 2008-02-23 The Big Switch by Nicholas Carr — Venkat 2008-02-25 Ambient Presence and Virtual Social Capital — Venkat 2008-03-02 The Varieties of Innovation Experience — Venkat 2008-03-05 The UnAha! Experience — Venkat 2008-03-09 Trollope, Fitzgerald and Holmes for the Generalist's Soul — Venkat 2008-03-12 On Japan as a Robot-Loving Nation — Venkat 2008-03-16 Bargaining with your Right Brain — Venkat 2008-03-21 Roundup: Jan 17 - March 20 — Venkat 2008-03-23 Johnny Bunko and the Future of Work — Venkat 2008-03-27 The Founding Fathers of Technology — Venkat 2008-03-30 The NAE's Grand Challenges vs. Mine — Venkat 2008-04-03 Inventoritis and the Grabowski Ratio — Venkat 2008-04-03 Against Clouds — Venkat 2008-04-05 Generation Blend by Rob Salkowitz — Venkat 2008-04-07 CEO Badger Picks a CSO — Venkat 2008-04-08 The New Location, Location, Location — Venkat 2008-04-14 The Sage of Ribbonfarm #1 — Venkat 2008-04-15 The Coming Triumph of the Strengths Movement — Venkat 2008-04-17 The Other Games Indians Play — Venkat 2008-04-19 A Map of the World 2.0 Canon — Venkat 2008-04-22 The Sage of Ribbonfarm #2 — Venkat 2008-04-23 Ronald Coase and Salvation from Anthropological Economics — Venkat 2008-04-29 The Sage of Ribbonfarm #3 — Venkat 2008-05-01 Jump Point by Tom Hayes — Venkat 2008-05-05 Art for Thought — Venkat 2008-05-11 What Got You Here Won't Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith — Venkat 2008-05-18 Megacommunities and Macrotrends — Venkat 2008-05-20 The Evolution of Work-Life — Venkat 2008-05-26 Information Overload and the FOOD IS THOUGHT Metaphor — Venkat 2008-05-28 Outsider Innovation 101 — Venkat 2008-06-01 Three Great Jobs in the Fourth Xerox Revolution — Venkat 2008-06-03 Context-Switching Metaphors for Work-Life Blending — Venkat 2008-06-09 How Geniuses Think — Michael Michalko 2008-06-11 Groundswell by Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff — Venkat 2008-06-16 Roundup: March 21 - June 16 — Venkat 2008-06-20 The Three-Leaps-of-Faith Rule — Venkat 2008-06-22 Theory W, Theory X and Theory Y — Venkat 2008-06-27 From Bubbles to Cloud: The Evolution of Enterprise 2.0 — Venkat 2008-07-06 Happy First Birthday, Ribbonfarm — Venkat 2008-07-07 Dipity, Or, How to View Time, 2.0 — Venkat 2008-07-13 Work-Life Chemistry and How to Measure It — Venkat 2008-07-17 Peter Cappelli's "Talent On Demand" — Venkat 2008-07-21 Towards a Philosophy of Destruction — Venkat 2008-07-23 Acceleration as Strategy, Urgency as Doctrine — Venkat 2008-08-05 The Next Level of the Game — Venkat 2008-08-10 The Future of the Internet according to Jonathan Zittrain — Venkat 2008-08-13 Some Pointers to Thinking Styles — Venkat 2008-08-17 The Impossibility Triangle in Talent Management — Venkat 2008-08-24 How We Fly: Aircraft as Career Metaphors — Venkat 2008-09-01 The Bloody-Minded Pleasures of Engineering — Venkat 2008-09-04 Maslow for Market Segmentation — Venkat 2008-09-06 Organizing to Disrupt — Venkat 2008-09-11 How to Measure Information Work — Venkat 2008-09-18 Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely — Venkat 2008-09-25 Crowdsourcing and The Wisdom of the Crowds — Venkat 2008-09-29 A Generational War (Guest Post on Enterprise 2.0 Blog) — Venkat 2008-10-01 The 10 Immutable Laws of Nanoeconomics — Venkat 2008-10-07 The Headcount Myth and the Value of Overbooking — Venkat 2008-10-16 Mastering the Hype Cycle by Fenn and Raskino — Venkat 2008-10-23 The Cloudworker's Creed — Venkat 2008-10-29 Cloudworker Economics — Venkat 2008-10-30 Vote for 'Cloudworker' Among Plantronics Contest Finalists! — Venkat 2008-10-31 My First Book, A Board Game and 'Cloudworker' on the NYT — Venkat 2008-11-03 The Corporate College and Other Election 3.0 Ideas — Venkat 2008-11-05 The Cloud President, Obama — Venkat 2008-11-09 Is There a Cloudworker Culture? — Venkat 2008-11-14 Spanning Silos by David Aaker — Venkat 2008-11-18 The Organization Man by William Whyte: Introduction — Venkat 2008-11-23 The Ideology of the Organization Man — Venkat 2008-12-01 Future-of-Work Mini-X-Prizes at Cloudworker.org — Venkat 2008-12-03 Brain Rules by John Medina — Venkat 2008-12-10 Serious Games for Serious Business — Marigo Raftapoulos 2008-12-15 How to Make New Year's Calibrations — Venkat 2008-12-26 Complete 2008 Roundup — Venkat 2008-12-31 Six Personal Favorites for 2008 — Venkat 2009 (57) 2009-01-07 Allenism, Taylorism and the Day I Rode the Thundercloud — Venkat 2009-01-18 The Cloudworker, Layoffs and The Disposable American — Venkat 2009-01-23 Enculturation Recapitulates Civilization — Venkat 2009-01-30 Trust in the Age of Twitter — Venkat 2009-02-03 Who: The A Method for Hiring by Smart and Street — Venkat 2009-02-10 Health and the Happy Hamster — Venkat 2009-02-17 The Training of the Organization Man — Venkat 2009-02-21 The Solemn Whimsies of Larry Morris — Venkat 2009-03-02 Fools and their Money Metaphors — Venkat 2009-03-11 Neatness, Organization and Unsociability — Venkat 2009-03-20 Succession Planning: Marshall Goldsmith vs. Eric Raymond — Venkat 2009-03-26 The Tragedy of Wiio's Law — Venkat 2009-03-31 The Slash Effect — Venkat 2009-04-08 Design and Architecture — Venkat 2009-04-15 Coworking: \"I'm Outta Here\" by Jones, Sundsted and Bacigalupo — Venkat 2009-04-20 How to Draw and Judge Quadrant Diagrams — Venkat 2009-05-05 Ribbonfarm at the Crossroads — Venkat 2009-05-15 The Discovery of Money — Venkat 2009-05-21 Bay's Conjecture — Venkat 2009-05-28 The Hunter-Gatherer Theory of Markets and Shopping — Venkat 2009-06-07 Zen and the Art of Google Wave Mechanics — Venkat 2009-06-15 Marketing, Innovation and the Creation of Customers — Venkat 2009-06-22 Neurotic Leaders, Paternalistic Managers and Self-Absorbed Workers — Venkat 2009-07-01 The Rhetoric of the Hyperlink — Venkat 2009-07-07 The Epic Story of Container Shipping — Venkat 2009-07-17 Cloudworker Board Game Revisited — Venkat 2009-07-21 The Crucible Effect and the Scarcity of Collective Attention — Venkat 2009-07-29 The Book as a Social Signal — Venkat 2009-08-03 The Brain of the World — Venkat 2009-08-06 On Seeing Like a Cat — Venkat 2009-08-10 Humor as Massage — Venkat 2009-08-12 Two Manipulative Ways to Close Conversations — Venkat 2009-08-16 The Tragicomic Exasperations of Expertise — Venkat 2009-08-19 On Going Feral — Venkat 2009-08-24 The Pregnancy Metaphor — Venkat 2009-08-27 The Outlaw Sea by William Langewiesche — Venkat 2009-08-31 How to Think Like Hercule Poirot — Venkat 2009-09-03 The Manager on Labor Day — Venkat 2009-09-09 Time and Money: Separated at Birth? — Venkat 2009-09-14 Knowing and Caring — Venkat 2009-09-17 Your Evil Twins and How to Find Them — Venkat 2009-09-23 The Allegory of the Stage — Venkat 2009-09-28 The Tao of Frogger — Venkat 2009-10-02 A Brewing Storm in Psychology — Venkat 2009-10-07 The Gervais Principle, Or The Office According to "The Office" — Venkat 2009-10-14 Hello to Slashdotters, Gervais Principle Follow-Ups — Venkat 2009-10-26 Fear of Improvisation (and Clunkers) — Venkat 2009-10-30 Baital Pachisi: An Indian Vampire Meta-Story — Venkat 2009-11-05 One Good Thing About the 'Flu — Venkat 2009-11-11 The Gervais Principle II: Posturetalk, Powertalk, Babytalk and Gametalk — Venkat 2009-11-21 Morality, Compassion and the Sociopath — Venkat 2009-12-01 Pricing in Pay-It-Forward and Gift Economies — Venkat 2009-12-07 Social Objects: Notes on Knitting in America — Venkat 2009-12-13 Random Promotions and the Gervais Principle — Venkat 2009-12-16 The Right and Left Brains of Enterprise 2.0 — Venkat 2009-12-22 How to Make New Year's Calibrations (Rerun) — Venkat 2009-12-27 Work-Life Balance: Juggling, Spinning or Surfing? (Rerun) — Venkat 2010 (63) 2010-01-02 2009 Roundup, 2010 Preview — Venkat 2010-01-04 Predictions 2010 (on Silicon Angle) — Venkat 2010-01-07 On the Deathly Cold — Venkat 2010-01-09 Drive by Dan Pink — Venkat 2010-01-13 Conceptual Metaphors (Mashable), Gervais Principle (Fugitive Philosophy) — Venkat 2010-01-17 \"Up in the Air\" and the Future of Work — Venkat 2010-01-20 The Ribbonfarm Posterous — Venkat 2010-01-23 Impro by Keith Johnstone — Venkat 2010-01-28 The Misanthrope's Guide to the End of the World — Venkat 2010-02-04 The Genealogy of the Gervais Principle — Venkat 2010-02-09 Bright-Sided by Barbara Ehrenreich — Venkat 2010-02-11 Guest Post on VentureBeat on the iPad — Venkat 2010-02-13 Safar aur Musafir: The Hero's Journey in Bollywood — Venkat 2010-02-17 Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor — Venkat 2010-03-01 The Expedient, Desirable Product — Venkat 2010-03-07 An Infrastructure Pilgrimage — Venkat 2010-03-13 Linchpin by Seth Godin, and 8 Other Short Book Reviews — Venkat 2010-03-16 Ribbonfarm Facebook page, Twitter Feed, Posterous — Venkat 2010-03-18 The Turpentine Effect — Venkat 2010-03-23 Amy Lin and the Ancient Eye — Venkat 2010-04-01 An Elephant, Some Batteries and Julianne Moore — Venkat 2010-04-08 Against the Gods by Peter Bernstein — Venkat 2010-04-12 Four-Hour Workweek or Executricks? — Venkat 2010-04-14 The Gervais Principle III: The Curse of Development — Venkat 2010-04-28 Be Slightly Evil — Venkat 2010-05-04 The Lords of Strategy by Walter Kiechel — Venkat 2010-05-06 Two Interesting Gervais Principle Follow-Ups — Venkat 2010-05-12 A Bumper May Harvest of Good Reading — Venkat 2010-05-19 Intellectual Gluttony — Venkat 2010-05-27 In the Real World... — Venkat 2010-06-03 Three Off-Ribbonfarm Posts — Venkat 2010-06-09 Digital Security, the Red Queen, and Sexual Computing — Venkat 2010-06-16 The Missing Folkways of Globalization — Venkat 2010-06-24 WOM, Broadcast and the Classical Marketing Contract — Venkat 2010-06-30 The Philosopher's Abacus — Venkat 2010-07-07 Becalmed in the Summer Doldrums — Venkat 2010-07-13 The Eight Metaphors of Organization — Venkat 2010-07-20 The Happy Company — Venkat 2010-07-22 The Right Question, Review of Shallows, Insight vs. Mind-Candy — Venkat 2010-07-26 A Big Little Idea Called Legibility — Venkat 2010-07-28 Wanted: A Book Cover Designer for \"Tempo\" — Venkat 2010-08-03 Down with Innovation, Up with Imitation! — Venkat 2010-08-09 How to Take a Walk — Venkat 2010-08-15 Cultural Learnings of Blogosphere for Make Benefit Glorious Blog of Ribbonfarm. — Venkat 2010-08-17 The Greasy, Fix-It 'Web of Intent' Vision — Venkat 2010-08-25 Interested in Guest Posting on Ribbonfarm? — Venkat 2010-08-30 Morning is Wiser Than Evening — Venkat 2010-09-08 King Gustavus' Folly: The Story of the Vasa — Jim Anderson 2010-09-14 Cricket as Metaphor — Venkat 2010-09-21 The Seven Dimensions of Positioning — Venkat 2010-09-28 Learning from One Data Point — Venkat 2010-10-07 How Good Becomes the Enemy of Great — Venkat 2010-10-14 The Gervais Principle IV: Wonderful Human Beings — Venkat 2010-10-20 Coloring the Whole Egg: Fixing Integrated Marketing — Venkat 2010-10-27 Warrens, Plazas and the Edge of Legibility — Venkat 2010-11-05 Ancient Rivers of Money — Venkat 2010-11-06 The World of Garbage — Venkat 2010-11-16 What Entrepreneurs Can Learn from the Poor — Venkat 2010-11-19 Ribbonfarm is Now Mobile-Friendly (Sort Of) — Venkat 2010-11-29 What Does it Mean to Work Hard? — Venkat 2010-12-07 Socratic Fishing in Lake Quora — Venkat 2010-12-13 Update on Tempo — Venkat 2010-12-21 Ribbonfarm Complete 2010 Roundup — Venkat 2011 (111) 2011-01-01 How Leveraged are Your Resolutions? — Venkat 2011-01-06 The Gollum Effect — Venkat 2011-01-19 Boundary Condition Thinking — Venkat 2011-02-02 The Disruption of Bronze — Venkat 2011-02-10 Waiting versus Idleness — Venkat 2011-02-23 Memories of Namdapha — Venkat 2011-03-01 Where the Wild Thoughts Are — Venkat 2011-03-10 The Return of the Barbarian — Venkat 2011-03-17 Cognitive Archeology of the West — Paula Hay 2011-03-24 Say Hello to "Barbarian," the Crowd-Funded Ribbonfarm Laptop — Venkat 2011-03-31 Tempo Stealth Edition — Venkat 2011-04-07 Extroverts, Introverts, Aspies and Codies — Venkat 2011-04-21 The Tempo Road Trip — Venkat 2011-04-21 The Russian Fox and the Evolution of Intelligence — Venkat 2011-04-28 The Tempo Road Trip — Venkat 2011-05-02 Week 1: DC, Wilmington, Albany, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto — Venkat 2011-05-02 Week 1: DC, Wilmington, Albany, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto — Venkat 2011-05-03 A Moment of Silence with John Boyd — Venkat 2011-05-03 The Tempo of Food — Venkat 2011-05-03 Island Time vs. Mainland Time — Venkat 2011-05-04 An Evening of Pace, Pace, Lead with Chuck — Venkat 2011-05-04 Haircuts and the Guy Clock — Venkat 2011-05-04 The One Way of the Beginner — Venkat 2011-05-05 Why Some Drives are Fun — Venkat 2011-05-07 Talking Temporal Illegibility in Montreal — Venkat 2011-05-07 My Experiments with Introductions — Venkat 2011-05-08 Peak Oil and the Tempo of the Earth — Venkat 2011-05-08 Darwin, Some Rationalists and the Joker — Venkat 2011-05-09 Time Travel for Ghosts — Venkat 2011-05-09 Week 2: Ann Arbor, Nashville, Atlanta, New Orleans — Venkat 2011-05-09 Week 2: Ann Arbor, Nashville, Atlanta, New Orleans — Venkat 2011-05-11 The Car/Truck Ratio — Venkat 2011-05-12 Freytag Staircases in Nashville — Venkat 2011-05-12 Functional Fixedness and Kata Learning — Venkat 2011-05-14 Sexual Personae by Camille Paglia — Stefan King 2011-05-14 The Author's Journey and the Blogger's Journey — Venkat 2011-05-15 On Ritual Time — Venkat 2011-05-16 Strategies, Counter-examples and the UnAha! Experience — Venkat 2011-05-16 Week 3: Memphis, St. Louis, Omaha, Carhenge, Deadwood, Yellowstone — Venkat 2011-05-16 Lame name: Belmont, CA — Venkat 2011-05-16 Rabble Rouser: Seattle WA — Venkat 2011-05-16 Week 3: Memphis, St. Louis, Omaha, Carhenge, Deadwood, Yellowstone — Venkat 2011-05-16 The Memphis Drum Shop — Venkat 2011-05-16 Startup Deathwatch in Memphis — Venkat 2011-05-17 Mississippi Flooding — Venkat 2011-05-17 The Best Chips in the World — Venkat 2011-05-17 On Rest Stops 2.0 — Venkat 2011-05-18 Smalltalk with Gary and Harpreet — Venkat 2011-05-18 How Clock Time Replaced Narrative Time — Venkat 2011-05-20 \"Ready, Fire, Aim,\" with Wild Bill — Venkat 2011-05-20 My Competition? — Venkat 2011-05-21 Timepass and Boredom — Venkat 2011-05-24 IARPA Starts Metaphor-Based Decision-Making Research — Venkat 2011-05-24 Dulce Domum — Venkat 2011-05-24 Dulce Domum — Venkat 2011-05-31 Review at Zenpundit.com — Venkat 2011-06-02 The Las Vegas Rules I: The Slightly Malevolent Universe — Venkat 2011-06-03 Towards Thick Strategy Narratives — Venkat 2011-06-06 Bardic Mystique: Maastricht, Netherlands — Venkat 2011-06-08 A Brief History of the Corporation: 1600 to 2100 — Venkat 2011-06-16 The Las Vegas Rules II: Stuff Science — Venkat 2011-06-24 Kindle Edition Status, Glossary, Global Availability, Road Trip Contd. — Venkat 2011-06-24 Semi-Annual Roundup 2011 and Highlights for New Readers — Venkat 2011-06-29 The Four Kinds of Economies — Venkat 2011-06-29 H.M.S. Cock-Robin, Cambridge, UK — Venkat 2011-06-29 Never Stop Marketing, Silver Spring, MD — Venkat 2011-06-30 California Visit: July 11 - Aug 4, including a 4th Anniversary Field Trip — Venkat 2011-07-07 The End of the Parade — Venkat 2011-07-13 Storytelling for Problem-Solving — Venkat 2011-07-14 Diamonds versus Gold — Venkat 2011-07-21 Houseboats, Containers, Guns and Garbage: the 2011 Ribbonfarm Field Trip — Venkat 2011-07-22 Tempo and OODA: The Backstory — Venkat 2011-07-24 Chet Richards' Review of Tempo on Fabius Maximus — Venkat 2011-07-31 On Being an Illegible Person — Venkat 2011-08-10 A Proposed Grand Narrative for the History of Debt — Venkat 2011-08-12 The August Reading List Freeze — Venkat 2011-08-17 Daemons and the Mindful Learning Curve — Venkat 2011-08-19 The Calculus of Grit — Venkat 2011-08-24 New Research on Decision Fatigue — Venkat 2011-08-26 The Scientific Sensibility — Venkat 2011-08-31 Bandwagon Timing verus Biding Your Time — Venkat 2011-09-07 Tempo goes to Burning Man — Venkat 2011-09-08 Fixing the Game by Roger L. Martin — Venkat 2011-09-12 The Gervais Principle in New York, and Friday 9/16 NYC Meetup — Venkat 2011-09-22 Forgivable Sloppiness: The Art of Epoch-Driven Time Management — Venkat 2011-09-23 The Milo Criterion — Venkat 2011-09-29 Ubiquity Illusions and the Chicken-Egg Problem — Venkat 2011-10-03 Mental Models and Archetypes Explained — Venkat 2011-10-04 The Stream Map of the World — Venkat 2011-10-06 New Forbes Blog, Economist Video — Venkat 2011-10-13 Tempo Review on BoingBoing by Cory Doctorow — Venkat 2011-10-14 The Gervais Principle V: Heads I Win, Tails You Lose — Venkat 2011-10-19 The Quest for Immortality — Venkat 2011-10-25 Thrust, Drag and the 10x Effect — Venkat 2011-10-26 Three Deep Videos and a Roundup — Venkat 2011-11-02 A Pilgrimage through Stagnation and Acceleration — Venkat 2011-11-03 Ribbonfarm Field Trip #3: Computer History Museum, 11/19/2011 — Venkat 2011-11-07 Quandary: Seattle WA — Venkat 2011-11-07 Ancora Imparo: Warsaw, Poland. — Venkat 2011-11-11 Technology and the Baroque Unconscious — Venkat 2011-11-16 The Evolution of the American Dream — Venkat 2011-11-21 Tempo Now Available on Kindle — Venkat 2011-11-21 The Towers of Priority — Venkat 2011-11-29 The Pomodoro Technique — Venkat 2011-12-01 How the World Works — Venkat 2011-12-02 Tempo now available on the Nook — Venkat 2011-12-07 What Really Happened Aboard Air France 447 — Venkat 2011-12-08 Acting Dead, Trading Up and Leaving the Middle Class — Venkat 2011-12-15 How the World Works: Part II — Venkat 2011-12-21 Complete 2011 Roundup — Venkat 2011-12-22 Tempo: Year One — Venkat 2012 (80) 2012-01-04 Squeakastination: The Opposite of Procrastination — Venkat 2012-01-06 2012 Reading List, January - June — Venkat 2012-01-11 Seeking Density in the Gonzo Theater — Venkat 2012-01-18 The World is Small and Life is Long — Venkat 2012-01-19 Steer, Ready, Fire — Venkat 2012-01-27 Peak Attention and the Colonization of Subcultures — Venkat 2012-01-28 Does Culture Eat Strategy for Lunch? — Venkat 2012-02-02 How to Name Things — Venkat 2012-02-07 The Greater Ribbonfarm Cultural Region — Venkat 2012-02-08 The Tempo Glossary — Venkat 2012-02-09 Refactor Camp 2012: Generativity and Captivity — Venkat 2012-02-13 Motifs, Mascots and Muses at Refactor Camp, 2012 — Venkat 2012-02-16 Glimpses of a Cryptic God — Venkat 2012-02-20 Live Life, Not Projects — Venkat 2012-02-29 Just Add Water — Venkat 2012-03-01 The Second Most Important Archetype in your Life — Venkat 2012-03-08 Hall's Law: The Nineteenth Century Prequel to Moore's Law — Venkat 2012-03-09 Routine, but Cannot be Automated — Venkat 2012-03-14 Reviewing Refactor Camp 2012 — Venkat 2012-03-19 The Fundamentals of Calendar Hacking — Venkat 2012-03-22 Can Hydras Eat Unknown-Unknowns for Lunch? — Venkat 2012-03-26 The Tempo of Code — Venkat 2012-03-29 Lawyer Mind, Judge Mind — Venkat 2012-04-10 Trigger Narratives and the Nuclear Option — Venkat 2012-04-11 How Do You Run Away from Home? — Venkat 2012-04-16 Hacking Grand Narratives — Venkat 2012-04-18 Hacking the Non-Disposable Planet — Venkat 2012-04-25 Go Deep, Young Man: 2012 Call for Sponsorships — Venkat 2012-04-26 Thinking in a Foreign Language — Venkat 2012-04-30 The 6-Hour Maker-Manager Work Day — Venkat 2012-05-03 Rediscovering Literacy — Venkat 2012-05-07 Creative Desks versus Administration Desks — Venkat 2012-05-09 Welcome to the Future Nauseous — Venkat 2012-05-14 How Life Imitates Chess by Garry Kasparov — Venkat 2012-05-17 Discussion Note: Sartre's Nausea vs. Future Nausea — Venkat 2012-05-21 The Daily Ugly — Venkat 2012-05-24 Roundup: January - May 2012 — Venkat 2012-05-28 Forged Groups — Venkat 2012-05-31 The Art of Refactored Perception — Venkat 2012-06-04 Time Lensing — Venkat 2012-06-05 Towards an Appreciative View of Technology — Venkat 2012-06-11 Appreciative versus Manipulative Mental Models — Venkat 2012-06-13 Getting Ahead, Getting Along, Getting Away — Venkat 2012-06-18 Analysis-Paralysis and The Sensemaking Trap — Venkat 2012-06-20 The Mysteries of Money — Venkat 2012-06-25 Fertile Variables and Rich Moves — Venkat 2012-07-02 Not Important, Not Urgent — Venkat 2012-07-03 Five Years of Blogging — Venkat 2012-07-09 Stress Failures versus Decay Failures — Venkat 2012-07-10 My New Book Project, Upcoming Talks in Los Angeles and Malmö, Sweden — Venkat 2012-07-13 The Generalized Hawthorne Effect — Venkat 2012-07-16 Positioning Moves versus Melee Moves — Venkat 2012-07-24 Happily Almost Ever After: Towards a Romantic Account of Détente — Venkat 2012-07-30 Literary Darwinism — Venkat 2012-07-31 The Guerilla Guide to Social Business — Venkat 2012-08-09 The Interesting Times Triangle — Venkat 2012-08-13 Breakout Moves and Exponential Outcomes — Venkat 2012-08-16 Realtechnik, Nausea and Technological Longing — Venkat 2012-08-23 Waste, Creativity and Godwin's Corollary for Technology — Venkat 2012-08-30 The Varieties of Scientific Experience — Venkat 2012-09-11 Romanticism and Classicism (Assembly Required) — Venkat 2012-09-17 Demystification versus Understanding — Venkat 2012-09-20 Money as Pain Relief — Venkat 2012-09-27 Cloud Mouse, Metro Mouse — Venkat 2012-10-02 Annealing the Tactical Pattern Stack — Venkat 2012-10-04 The Abundances of Ages — Venkat 2012-10-15 Economies of Scale, Economies of Scope — Venkat 2012-10-23 Navigating the Holey Plane — Venkat 2012-10-29 The Examined Life — Venkat 2012-10-29 Anthropology of Mid-Sized Startups — Kevin Simler 2012-10-31 Deskless in Seattle, Future of Data Survey — Venkat 2012-11-05 At Home, in a Car — Venkat 2012-11-14 Jason Ho on Cultivating a Jiu-Jitsu Mindset — Venkat 2012-11-19 Notes on Spatial Metaphors for Social Systems — Venkat 2012-11-23 Talk on Kool Aid, VUCA Discussion, Tuesday Nov 27 at USC (Los Angeles) — Venkat 2012-11-27 Patterns of Refactored Agency — Venkat 2012-12-08 Should You Count Near-Misses as Successes or Failures? — Venkat 2012-12-14 The Ultimate Lifestyle Planning Guide and Map — Venkat 2012-12-19 Complete 2012 Roundup — Venkat 2012-12-30 Roundup of 2012 Tempoblog Posts — Venkat 2013 (74) 2013-01-02 Schumpeter's Demon — Venkat 2013-01-11 Refactorings Extended: Please Welcome Mike, Drew and Kevin — Venkat 2013-01-16 Eternal Hypochondria of the Expanding Mind — Venkat 2013-01-17 Data is Eating Clocks — Venkat 2013-01-28 Jailbreaking the City: Announcing Refactor Camp 2013 — Venkat 2013-01-31 Stone-Soup for the Capitalist's Soul — Venkat 2013-02-05 Machine Cities and Ghost Cities — Drew Austin 2013-02-13 Resilient Like a Fox — Venkat 2013-02-15 Adventures in Amateur Talking-Headery — Venkat 2013-02-19 The Cloistered Hedgehog and The Dislocated Fox — Venkat 2013-02-20 Solidarity and Recursion — Mike Travers 2013-02-28 The National Day of Unplugging — Venkat 2013-02-28 Binoculars versus Cameras — Venkat 2013-03-05 Honesty and the Human Body — Kevin Simler 2013-03-11 Tempo Interview on 'Smart People Podcast' — Venkat 2013-03-13 The Dead-Curious Cat and the Joyless Immortal — Venkat 2013-03-18 How Many Steps Do You Really Look Ahead? — Venkat 2013-03-22 Social Dark Matter: On Seeing and Being Seen — Venkat 2013-03-26 Allowing Personality to Flow — Venkat 2013-03-27 The Wave of Unknowing — Drew Austin 2013-04-01 Why Habit Formation is Hard — Venkat 2013-04-03 The Locust Economy — Venkat 2013-04-08 Overtake on the Turn, Overwhelm on the Straight — Venkat 2013-04-10 A Beginner's Guide to Immortality — Venkat 2013-04-17 So I Shall be Written, So I Shall be Performed — Mike Travers 2013-04-25 Branches and Roots: 2013 Call for Sponsorships — Venkat 2013-04-29 Sensitive Dependence on Paperwork Conditions — Venkat 2013-05-01 The Economics of Social Status — Kevin Simler 2013-05-09 Roundup, January-April 2013 — Venkat 2013-05-14 Deliberate Practice versus Immersion — Venkat 2013-05-16 The Gervais Principle VI: Children of an Absent God — Venkat 2013-05-21 Schleps, Puzzles, and Packages: Solving Complex Problems the Iron Man Way — Venkat 2013-05-23 Civilization and the War on Entropy — Drew Austin 2013-05-30 Aphorisms: Collection 1 — Venkat 2013-06-06 On the Unraveling of Scripts — Venkat 2013-06-11 New York City Meetup on Wednesday, 12th June — Venkat 2013-06-17 Extrovert-Introvert Fog — Venkat 2013-06-19 War and Nonhuman Agency — Mike Travers 2013-06-24 Lagrangian and Eulerian Decision-Making — Venkat 2013-06-26 Players versus Spectators — Venkat 2013-07-01 Coincidences and Correlations — Venkat 2013-07-01 Consciousness: An Outside View — Kevin Simler 2013-07-10 You Are Not an Artisan — Venkat 2013-07-23 Inside the Miscellaneous Folder — Venkat 2013-07-25 The Networked Narrative — Drew Austin 2013-07-31 The Quality of Life — Venkat 2013-08-08 On Freedomspotting — Venkat 2013-08-11 Personality Ambidexterity: Or How to Turn Yourself Inside-Out — Venkat 2013-08-14 An Archetypes Map — Venkat 2013-08-20 I and Thou and Life in Aspergerstan — Mike Travers 2013-08-26 On Thinking Caps — Venkat 2013-08-28 Roundup, May-August 2013, September in Bay Area, Sponsorship Update — Venkat 2013-09-04 Projected Presence — Kevin Simler 2013-09-12 The Exercise of Authoritah — Venkat 2013-09-18 Freedom in Smooth Space — Drew Austin 2013-09-25 Rough Books for Roughening School — Venkat 2013-10-02 Truth in Consulting — Venkat 2013-10-11 The Mother of All Disruptions — Venkat 2013-10-18 The Government Within — Mike Travers 2013-10-18 Frictional and Structural Unknowns — Venkat 2013-10-24 On Lifestyle Rigidity — Venkat 2013-10-31 On Staying Grounded — Venkat 2013-11-07 UX and the Civilizing Process — Kevin Simler 2013-11-11 Is Decision-Making Skill Trainable? — Venkat 2013-11-13 The Gooseberry Fallacy — Venkat 2013-11-19 Deep Play: An Impressionistic Theory of Innovation — Venkat 2013-11-25 The New Human Wilderness — Drew Austin 2013-12-01 Algorithmic Governance and the Ghost in the Machine — Sam Bhagwat 2013-12-09 The Three Clocks of Trial and Error — Venkat 2013-12-09 Our Diurnal Civilization — Venkat 2013-12-16 Maintenance Thinking — Venkat 2013-12-17 Morality for Exploded Minds — Mike Travers 2013-12-23 Complete 2013 Roundup — Venkat 2013-12-30 New Year's Resolutions as Self-Directed Camp — Venkat 2015 (68) 2015-01-01 Black Mirror as Hell-Is-Other-People Futurism — Venkat 2015-01-08 Ritual and the Consciousness Monoculture — Sarah Perry 2015-01-16 On the Design of Escaped Realities — Venkat 2015-01-21 Let's Play! Narrative Discovery vs. Expert Guides — Ryan Tanaka 2015-01-28 The Heroine's Journey — Haley Thurston 2015-02-02 Refactor Camp 2015: Narrative — Venkat 2015-02-11 What Is Ritual? — Sarah Perry 2015-02-18 A Dent in the Universe — Venkat 2015-02-24 Colin Dickey: Tempo Shifts — Venkat 2015-02-25 The Mother of All 2x2s — Venkat 2015-03-04 Gardens Need Walls: On Boundaries, Ritual, and Beauty — Sarah Perry 2015-03-12 The Art of Agile Leadership — Venkat 2015-03-19 The Art of Gig — Venkat 2015-03-26 The Art of Gig II — Venkat 2015-04-02 The Art of Gig III — Venkat 2015-04-08 The Essence of Peopling — Sarah Perry 2015-04-15 The Capitalist's Zombie — Venkat 2015-04-22 A Better Art Vocabulary, Part 1 — Haley Thurston 2015-05-01 Roundup: January - April 2015 — Venkat 2015-05-07 Weaponized Sacredness — Sarah Perry 2015-05-13 Technopaganism and the Newer Age — Ryan Tanaka 2015-05-20 Pretending to Care, Pretending to Agree — Venkat 2015-05-28 The Amazing, Shrinking Org Chart — Venkat 2015-06-04 Puzzle Theory — Sarah Perry 2015-06-12 The Things You Carry — Venkat 2015-06-18 The Boydian Dialectic — Venkat 2015-06-23 Where do Electric Forces Come From? — Brian Skinner 2015-07-01 A Neptune Kid, Waiting to Always-Already Know Pluto — Venkat 2015-07-09 A Better Art Vocabulary, Part 2 — Haley Thurston 2015-07-14 New Horizons — Venkat 2015-07-16 Cooperative Ignorance — Sarah Perry 2015-07-21 Inbox Zero versus Flow Laminar — Venkat 2015-07-28 Breaking Smart — Venkat 2015-07-30 The Chinese Compressibility Parable — Venkat 2015-08-04 The Four Forces for Sociology — Venkat 2015-08-06 Frontierland — Sarah Perry 2015-08-11 Low Humanity Orbit — Venkat 2015-08-13 Executive Engagement — Venkat 2015-08-18 Extraordinary Laboratories — Venkat 2015-08-20 A Children’s Picture-book Introduction to Quantum Field Theory — Brian Skinner 2015-08-25 Learning is the Opposite of Healing — Venkat 2015-09-01 Breaking Smart Afternoon Workshop, and Evening Meetup, London, Sept 11 — Venkat 2015-09-03 Cartographic Compression — Sarah Perry 2015-09-08 The Greater Ribbonfarm Cultural Region 2015 — Venkat 2015-09-10 Why Nerds Have Bad Taste — Haley Thurston 2015-09-17 How to be a Precious Snowflake — Venkat 2015-09-22 Significance Appreciation — Venkat 2015-09-24 Samuel Beckett's Guide to Particles and Antiparticles — Brian Skinner 2015-09-29 What is the Largest Collective Action, Ever? — Venkat 2015-10-01 Meaning and Pointing — Sarah Perry 2015-10-06 Alice and Bob Discover Capitalism — Venkat 2015-10-08 LCD Curtains — Artem Litvinovich 2015-10-13 The Berliners #1 — Venkat 2015-10-15 Climate Change Op-Ed — Venkat 2015-10-20 The Berliners #2: This is Important — Venkat 2015-10-22 Distinctions and Differences — Venkat 2015-10-27 The Berliners #3: Sparring Session — Venkat 2015-10-29 Quasiparticles and the Miracle of Emergence — Brian Skinner 2015-11-05 Ritual Epistemology — Sarah Perry 2015-11-12 The Awe Delusion — Haley Thurston 2015-11-17 Berliners #4: Cactus and Weasel — Venkat 2015-11-23 Artisanal Hand-Crafted Electrons — Artem Litvinovich 2015-12-01 Can You Hear Me Now? — Venkat 2015-12-03 An Ecology of Beauty and Strong Drink — Sarah Perry 2015-12-08 Berliners #5: Grandparents — Venkat 2015-12-10 Field Theory of Swords — Brian Skinner 2015-12-17 We Are All Architects Now — Venkat 2015-12-23 Complete 2015 Roundup — Venkat 2017 (67) 2017-01-05 Tendrils of Mess in our Brains — Sarah Perry 2017-01-10 Rolling Your Own Culture and (Not) Finding Community — Timothy Roy 2017-01-12 Cannon Balls, Plate Tectonics, and Invisible Elephants — Hal Morris 2017-01-17 How to Dress for the Game of Life — Pamela Hobart 2017-01-19 The Antiheroine Unveiled — Sonya Mann 2017-01-24 Lies, Caffeinated Lies, and Operating Systems — Tim Herd 2017-01-26 Games, Videogames, and the Dionysian Society — Chris Reid 2017-01-31 The Throughput of Learning — Tiago Forte 2017-02-02 After Temporality — Sarah Perry 2017-02-07 Shift Register Code Breaking Out of the Echo Chamber — Nolan Gray 2017-02-09 One Sacred Trick for Moral Regeneration — Harry Pottash 2017-02-14 Caring and Reality — Kyle Eschenroeder 2017-02-16 Unbuilding the Wall — Toby Shorin 2017-02-21 Prescientific Organizational Theory — David Manheim 2017-02-23 The Strategy of No Strategy — Adam Elkus 2017-02-28 A Brief History of Existential Terror — Taylor Pearson 2017-03-02 The Limits of Epistemic Hygiene — Sarah Perry 2017-03-07 Sulking Through a Subprime Presidency — Venkat 2017-03-09 \"Another Green World\" — Suspended Reason 2017-03-14 Sanity on the Weird Timeline — Sonya Mann 2017-03-21 The Winter King of the Internet — Venkat 2017-03-23 Bourbon Crossing — Venkat 2017-03-30 Nobody Expects The Mongolian Earthship — Venkat 2017-04-04 Cloud Viruses in the Invisible Republic — Carlos Bueno 2017-04-11 Zorba, Spock, or Voldemort? — Mathew Sweet 2017-04-13 Idiots Scaring Themselves in the Dark — Sarah Perry 2017-04-18 Entrepreneurship is Metaphysical Labor — Joseph Kelly 2017-04-25 One Weird Longform Trick...on the Blockchain! — Venkat 2017-05-04 Fluid Rigor — Sarah Perry 2017-05-09 A Priest, a Guru, and a Nerd-King Walk Into a Conference Room... — Carlos Bueno 2017-05-16 Arguing About How the World Should Burn — Sonya Mann 2017-05-23 There are bots. Look around. — Renee DiResta 2017-05-25 Blockchains Never Forget — Venkat 2017-05-30 Y Tribenator — Carlos Bueno 2017-06-01 Why Books Are Fake — Sarah Perry 2017-06-06 Thingness and Thereness — Venkat 2017-06-13 Ten Years of Refactoring — Venkat 2017-06-15 How I Hired Your Mother — Carlos Bueno 2017-06-27 Been There, Done That — Venkat 2017-06-29 Semi-Annual Roundup 2017 — Editor 2017-07-06 The Power of Pettiness — Sarah Perry 2017-07-11 Memory Transplants and Climate Risks — Lisa Munoz 2017-07-13 Crash Early, Crash Often — Venkat 2017-07-18 From Monkey Neurons to the Meta-Brain — Hal Morris 2017-07-20 The Ominouslier Roar of the Bitcoin Wave — Editor 2017-07-25 I Can’t Be Your Hero, I’m Too Busy Being Super — Jim Stone 2017-07-26 On Being Nosey — Michael Dariano 2017-08-03 Body Pleasure — Sarah Perry 2017-08-08 The Crisis of the Lonely Atoms — Alex Hagen 2017-08-10 Questions Are Not Just For Asking — Malcolm Ocean 2017-08-17 The Premium Mediocre Life of Maya Millennial — Venkat 2017-08-29 Winning Is for Losers — Jacob Falkovich 2017-08-31 The Rust Age: A Four-Volume Collection — Venkat 2017-09-07 The World As If — Sarah Perry 2017-09-14 How to Make History — Venkat 2017-09-26 Common Sense Eats Common Talk — Stefano Zorzi 2017-09-28 The Internet of Electron Microscopes — Chenoe Hart 2017-10-02 \"It's Only Cannibalism if We're Equals\" — Abbie Phelps 2017-10-05 Rectangle Vision — Sarah Perry 2017-10-10 The Blockchain Man — Taylor Pearson 2017-11-09 CEOs Don't Steer — Venkat 2017-11-16 Folk Concepts — Sarah Perry 2017-11-28 The Leaning Tower of Morality — Kevin Simler 2017-11-30 Prolegomena to Any Dark-Age Psychohistory — Venkat 2017-12-07 Feeling the Future — Sarah Perry 2017-12-14 A Glitch in the Theocratic Matrix — Venkat 2017-12-21 Complete 2017 Roundup — Venkat 2020 (62) 2020-01-03 MJD 58,851 — Venkat 2020-01-06 MJD 58,854 — Venkat 2020-01-07 MJD 58,855 — Venkat 2020-01-15 Predictable Identities 24: Anti-Identity — Jacob Falkovich 2020-01-16 The Internet of Beefs — Venkat 2020-01-18 MJD 58,866 — Venkat 2020-01-23 Being Your Selves: Identity R&D on alt Twitter — Aaron Lewis 2020-01-24 How To See Voids — Venkat 2020-02-05 Predictable Identities 25: External Control — Jacob Falkovich 2020-02-10 MJD 58,889 — Venkat 2020-02-13 Domestic Cozy: 11 — Venkat 2020-02-18 Weirding Diary: 11 — Venkat 2020-02-24 A Text Renaissance — Venkat 2020-03-03 The New Uncanny Valley — Jakub Stachurski 2020-03-04 Predictable Identities 26: Academic Identity — Jacob Falkovich 2020-03-09 Plot Economics — Venkat 2020-03-17 Masks All The Way Down — James Curcio 2020-03-18 Domestic Cozy: 12 — Venkat 2020-03-23 Pandemic Dashboard: 1 — Venkat 2020-04-01 Scorpio Season: A New Talk Show — Venkat 2020-04-02 Pandemic Dashboard: 2 — Venkat 2020-04-07 Pandemic Dashboard: 3 — Venkat 2020-04-12 Now Reading: Pandemic Edition — Venkat 2020-04-14 Liminality?...Well, there's a free sample! — Venkat 2020-04-15 Predictable Identities 27: Craving and the Pill — Jacob Falkovich 2020-04-23 Quarantine Art — Venkat 2020-04-28 Alamut, Bosch, Gaddis: Introduction to Epochal Art — Mónica Belevan 2020-05-07 Leaking into the Future — Venkat 2020-05-12 Whistler's Giantess — Mónica Belevan 2020-05-21 New E-Book, and a Portfolio Update — Venkat 2020-05-26 Through a Glass Lightly — Mónica Belevan 2020-06-04 MJD 59,004 — Venkat 2020-06-09 A Spectre Is Haunting The West — Mónica Belevan 2020-06-23 Two Spooks — Mónica Belevan 2020-06-25 Mansionism 1: Building-Milieu Fit — Venkat 2020-07-06 Notes: A Distant Mirror by Barbara Tuchman — Venkat 2020-07-07 The Venus Effect — Mónica Belevan 2020-07-14 Notes -- Freedom's Forge by Arthur Herman — Venkat 2020-07-21 To Attack and Dethrone Gods — Mónica Belevan 2020-07-30 Elderblog Sutra: 11 — Venkat 2020-08-04 Amateur Vigour — Mónica Belevan 2020-08-13 Clockmaking: 1 — Venkat 2020-08-19 Convergent Evolution — Mónica Belevan 2020-08-24 Notes: Astounding by Alec Nevala-Lee — Venkat 2020-08-26 The Stack: A Love/Hate Story — Venkat 2020-09-02 Hyperreality Prevails — Mónica Belevan 2020-09-03 Wittgenstein's Revenge — Mike Elias 2020-09-16 Notes: The Starship and the Canoe by Kenneth Brower — Venkat 2020-09-23 Epistemic Reserve Notes — Mike Elias 2020-09-30 Notes: The Marshall Plan by Benn Steil — Venkat 2020-10-04 Mansionism 2: Bungalows — Venkat 2020-10-06 MJD 59,128 — Venkat 2020-10-14 Clockmaking: 2 — Venkat 2020-10-21 MJD 59,143 — Venkat 2020-10-23 MJD 59,145 — Venkat 2020-10-29 MJD 59,151 — Venkat 2020-11-10 MJD 59,163 — Venkat 2020-11-16 MJD 59,169 — Venkat 2020-12-02 Pascal's Market — Mike Elias 2020-12-09 Stoned Strategy — Dan Schmidt 2020-12-29 Notes: Pale Rider by Laura Spinney — Venkat 2020-12-31 2020 Ribbonfarm Extended Universe Annual Roundup — Venkat
