Go borrow some sugar from your neighbor
Channeling Outkast a bit here, but for good measure. Continue Reading
Neighborhoods
“Work is a family!” = often a lie (or … is it?)
Work is more like, ahem, a neighborhood. Continue Reading
Start viewing work as a neighborhood
There are essentially four models for human social interaction, according to some: communal sharing, authority ranking, equality matching, and market pricing. That seems a little bit like academic speak, so let’s break it down into more manageable categories. In terms… Continue Reading
A group of middle schoolers from Red Deer (in Alberta, Canada) may have figured out how to take schools into the future
Here’s a little bit of context before we begin: I spent much of yesterday at a middle school in Memphis, TN. Here’s where it is: I had a long conversation with the head maintenance guy over there, who wears a… Continue Reading