The Wisdom of Crowds: Wikipedia Entry

The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations, first published in 2004, is a book written by James Surowiecki about the aggregation of information in groups, resulting in decisions that, he argues, are often better than could have been made by any single member of the group...

The Wisdom of Crowds - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Wealth of Networks: Free PDF download

I believe we are on the verge of a new social world order. Wikipedia is just the beginning. Here is a sampling of the new work that shares some exciting insights into this new realn. Also note the wiki that comes with the book and the Free PDF Download are available at this site.

Here is a sampling of the new work.

Enhanced Autonomy

The networked information economy improves the practical capacities of individuals along three dimensions: (1) it improves their capacity to do more for and by themselves; (2) it enhances their capacity to do more in loose commonality with others, without being constrained to organize their relationship through a price system or in traditional hierarchical models of social
and economic organization; and (3) it improves the capacity of individuals to do more in formal organizations that operate outside the market sphere. This enhanced autonomy is at the core of all the other improvements... (more)

Download PDFs of the book - WikiNotes

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Time Boxing: a get-it-done technique that I use all the time.

Given a task, there are essentially two ways we can approach it. Either, we can work as hard as we can until it is “done” or we can fix the amount of time we have available and do the “best” we can. The latter approach is known as “Time boxing“.

Time Boxing is an Effective Getting Things Done Strategy

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Home Office? It's in the Yard

A Canadian company has made the jump to cedar-wood 2.0, modding its standard hot-tub enclosure and marketing it as a backyard DIY home office kit

Wired News: Home Office? It's in the Yard

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