Adrian was in town, so he called an impromptu Power Dinner of the New York TEPs. Mim and Qwidjibo and I showed up, as did a couple of Adrian’s other friends. First of all, it was at Hallo Berlin, which may have just moved to the top of my favorite restaurants in Manhattan. Awesome German […]
nextNY and other NYC events
A few weeks ago, I came across the nextNY site, a networking group for folks in technology and media in New York. It was started by Charlie O’Donnell, an up-and-coming executive (he just left Union Square Ventures where he’d been working to join a startup they’d funded). I was intrigued because they organized a dodgeball […]
Mike Murray on Hacking the Mind
I’m attending the Hackers on Planet Earth conference this weekend. I’d heard about this several months ago, just before I moved to New York and signed up then, because it was a cheap conference and sounded like it could be interesting. This is the conference associated with 2600 Magazine, which has been around forever. Anyway, […]
Central Park Philharmonic
Tonight, the New York Philharmonic gave a free concert in Central Park. I’d been thinking of going, but then Nate and Beth (last seen in this post) said they were organizing a picnic so that cinched things. It was awesome. Beth got there around 5:15 (for the 8pm concert) to snag a great spot, people […]
My first Yankees game
My company organized a Yankees game trip, and I had to go cuz it’s Yankee Stadium (thus completing my collection of “real” baseball stadiums, counting Wrigley and Fenway as the others). Yankees against the Mariners, nothing too exciting. The highlight for me was A-Rod completely self-destructing. I’m anti-A-Rod, partially because he sold out (admittedly, I […]
Tracing social connections
So far, my thoughts on applications for the ideas from Reassembling the Social have included management, marketing, and entrepreneurship. One more post on this subject, and then I think I’ll be ready on to move on to a new topic. The last topic is that of explicitly social connections, of friends. Friendship is a tricky […]
Leading a dynamic life
At the end of my last post, I wondered why people tend to believe that institutions are just there. Beemer’s answer was that “Maybe because for the first 18 years of our lives, they are? Childhood is dominated by relationships that are dictated and maintained by external systems, mostly “family†and “schoolâ€.” This makes a […]
Thunderstorms
Thunderstorms are so amazing. I’m sitting here in my apartment with the lights out, looking out at the entire sky going white with lightning, followed by the boom and rattle of the ensuing thunder. It’s awesome in the awe-inspiring sense of the term. I’m glad I’m inside and not out in it, though. I was […]
Collective Marketing
As is becoming usual (yay!), check out the comments on my last post for some interesting followup. So the last post could have been titled “Managing the Collective”, and talked about how to connect Latour’s wacky ideas about actor-network theory with the world of corporate management. Today I want to spend some time connecting those […]
Creating the Collective
First of all, check out the comments on yesterday’s post, where Beemer refines what I’m talking about and comes up with a great example to illustrate it. Today’s topic: what the heck does any of this French wacky social theory have to do with anything real? I’ll lead off with a couple Latour quotes: “an […]
