I’ve been using the tag ‘learning experience design strategy’ as a way to think about not taking the same old approaches of events über ales. The fact of the matter is that we’ve quite a lot of models and resources to draw upon, and we need to rethink what we’re doing. We also need to focus on the bigger picture. MORE >>

The magazine Upside has been erased. Some bits of it still persist on the Internet Archive , but nothing before 1996. Among the many things therefore no longer in circulation is a piece I wrote in late 1991 that ran in the January 1992 issue of Upside , exactly twenty years ago this month. Here goes: T HE P ROBLEM W ITH PR. By Doc Searls. MORE >>

If we want to understand the importance of flows in our world, the new book Design in Nature released this week by Adrian Bejan and J. Peder Zane is a must-read. It will literally change how you view the world – everything from snowflakes to volcanos. This book illustrates the power of living on the edge. Introducing the constructal law. MORE >>

Tweet There was a most interesting thread on Twitter today. Bert van Lamoen ( @transarchitect ) in a series of tweets, said [paraphrasing several]: “Senge’s five disciplines provided instant utility for learning to organizations in 1990, yet learning organizations remain rare to this day. Hierarchy kills all learning. complexity Wirearchy MORE >>

Around two decades ago I was arguing that object orientation was not just a way of creating reusable code, but was a more profound shift to enabling architectures that could combine people and technology in evolving systems. The first part was generally accepted, the second more controversial. Basically we build a demo system post IBM, created v2.0 MORE >>