Thinking of an on-line development?

Today I came across a couple of sites that got my attention as good options for any actual on-line development:
  • Ning : A platform for creating social networks founded by Marc Andreessen (mosaic, netscape, and the venture firm Andreessen Horowitz)
  • GitHub: collaboration, review, and code management for open source and private development projects. You can use it for free as long as your code is left as open source for any other user or programmer (the venture firm Andreessen Horowitz is the main investor).
If I had to bet over a company that will go as a rocket it will be GitHub, well I think it’s already doing like nobody’s business.

Sovereign human being

You are a sovereign human being although Governments around the world think differently and mark you at birth as their sole property with their brand of ownership, called citizenship.

Eres un ser humano soberano, a pesar de que los Gobiernos del mundo piensen diferente y te marquen desde tu nacimiento como suyos, con la marca de propiedad privada llamada nacionalidad.

Inmoderate Greatness – Why civilizations fail

«Bluntly put, human societies are addicted to their ruling ideas and their received way of life, and they are fanatical in their defense. Hence, they are extremely reluctant to reform. “To admit error and cut losses,” said Tuchman, “is rare among individuals, unknown among states”
“… the hubris of every civilization is that it is, like the Titanic, unsinkable. Hence the motivation to plan for shipwreck is lacking. In addition, the civilization’s contradictions and difficulties are seen not as symptoms of impending collapse but, rather, as problems to be solved by better policies and personnel”

Author: William Ophus
Number of pag: 70

Consumo colaborativo

Desgraciadamente en España aún no hay muchas empresas que potencien el consumo colaborativo, por una parte es un pena, pero por otra y analizando la evolución que están teniendo este tipo de empresas en otros países con una cultura de cooperación más adelantada a la que vivimos en España, deja abierta la puerta a multitud de oportunidades de negocio: empresas con alma que ayudan a las personas y nos ayudan a disminuir nuestra huella ecológica.
Ideas ya en marcha….. ¡elije la tuya y localízala!

Obey – When Corporations replaced Government

Do we want this future? Do we deserve it? Can’t we build a better one?«At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question. It is not exactly forbidden to say this, that or the other, but it is ‘not done’ to say it, just as in mid-Victorian times it was ‘not done’ to mention trousers in the presence of a lady. Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing, either in the popular press or in the highbrow periodicals.»

George Orwell
A film based on the book ‘Death of the Liberal Class’ by Chris Hedges. Where we unite behind brands, behind celebrities, rather than behind nations. Where we are corporation states. The rise of the Corporate State precipitated everything from income inequality to environmental collapse to the mainstream media’s metamorphosis from a tool of public service into a weapon of private interest.
Do we want this future? Do we deserve it? Can’t we build a better one?

Resilience is not enough

It isn’t enough to repair the damage our progress has brought. The unintended consequences of our efforts to improve quality of life for humans has repercussions and requires action.  Yes, and. It is also not enough to manage our risks and be more shock-resistant. Now is not only the time to course correct and be more resilient. It is a time to imagine what we can generate for the world. Not only can we work to minimize our footprint but we can also create positive handprints. It is time to strive for a world that thrives.
Comparison chart for Thrivable
Thrivability transcends survival modes, sustainability, and resilience. Thrivability embraces flow as the sources of life and joy and meaning, adds to the flow and rides the waves, instead of trying to nullify the effects. Each layer includes and also transcends the previous layer, expanding both interconnections as well as expanding system awareness as each layer hits limits and discovers that more forces are at work than can be explained within their purview. Also, this is not a progression, where you need to move through one before beginning another. You can have aspects of yourself or your organization in multiple places in the chart and movement within the chart can be from any one area to any other. It is not a spectrum of progression. It is a spectrum of viewpoint. And most of us are like electrons, leaping about from point to point and sometimes seemingly nowhere at all… until you look and ask.