Gil Friend’s Blog

My mother, a Parkinsons patient, figured it wasn't enough to become a pretty impressive collage artist late in life. (More on that soon.) She's also decided to do everything she can to support the quest for a cure. Her latest endeavor: My goal is to create a...

From the International Game Developers Association, via the ever-helpful 43 Folders: Why Crunch Mode Doesn't Work: 6 Lessons When used long-term, Crunch Mode slows development and creates more bugs when compared with 40-hour weeks. More than a century of studies show...

Here's the reminder Jamais posted at Open the Future today. Green Tomorrows Happens Tomorrow Last call for "Green Tomorrows." I'm looking forward to the chance to engage an audience with the ongoing evolution of my "sustainability success" scenarios. This web seminar...

Via SF Chronicle: We seek [America's] leadership. But if for some reason you are not willing to lead, leave it to the rest of us. Please get out of the way. Kevin Conrad, Papua-New Guinea delegate to the UN climate conference in Bali

Ya gotta hate subtlety to go with a title like that, but that's the one the guy uses. (It's a cogent and compelling summary of the possible stances available to people who aren't sure about climate change. Just the thing for the remaining skeptics on your holiday...

Via Ismail Ghalimi via Scoblizer vs NextNow comes this ">great list of Office 2.0 applications. Sez Scoble: (Office 2.0 are apps that you use to improve your work and which go beyond the standard Microsoft Excel/Word/Powerpoint apps that don’t let you easily...

"The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is the enemy of the human race," says Andrew Leonard. (Thanks, Jamais, for the link.) A new television ad says that proposed climate change legislation would transform the American way of life. Is that supposed to be a bad thing? Yeah,...

We've scheduled one last webinar this year in Natural Logic's Carbon Neutral Learningâ„¢ webinar series. In two weeks, futurist Jamais Cascio will discuss Green Tomorrows, and lead a stimulating exploration of how the sustainability revolution will transform our...