December 16, 2009, 12:41 pm
What Matters Now
by Lisa Agustin
Filed under: Books and Articles, Business
With the end of 2009 fast approaching, it’s time to think about lessons learned, things to improve, RESOLUTIONS. Seth Godin and Ishita Gupta asked over seventy big thinkers to each share an idea to focus on for 2010. The result is a new (and free!) ebook, What Matters Now. Godin challenges us to think about Generosity in spite of the current economy. Author Elizabeth Gilbert talks about the importance of Ease. Guy Kawasaki explains how true Evangelism works. (Pictured above: Hugh MacLeod’s take on Meaning.) My current favorite is George Dyson on the role of Analog systems in the age of Web 2.0:
Complex networks—of molecules, people, or ideas—constitute their own simplest behavioral descriptions. They are more easily approximated by analogy than defined by algorithmic code. Facebook, for example, although running on digital computers, constitutes an analog computer whose correspondence to the underlying network of human relationships now drives those relationships, the same way Google’s statistical approximation to meaning— allowing answers to find the questions, rather than the other way around—is now more a landscape than a map.
Check out a list of individual authors and their contributions or download the full book.
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