Like the Elizabethan Merchants of Light, my work is to track down, contexualize and share unusual cultural, scientific, technological wares (even occasional genius) & tools from many varied worlds, for your pleasure and profitable use.

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Let's build a *#!!% Starship already!
blog / cerebella / citizen science / heroes / intelligent life

Let’s build a *#!!% Starship already!

by Maximillian Kaizen on Feb 10, 2013 • No Comments
Cranking the limits is The 100 Year Starship, a jointly funded project of DARPA (the good folks who birthed the Internet) and NASA. It's a call to our collective ingenuity and utterly bonkers audacity: interstellar flight!
Make life a good counter-offer
blog / creative entrepreneurship / Future Skills / negotiation

Make life a good counter-offer

by Maximillian Kaizen on Oct 25, 2012 • No Comments
be very clear about HOW you want people to behave, specifically. (to buy, subscribe, surrender, eat broccoli ..you get the idea) be very clear (for yourself) about WHY you actually want that behaviour. make it EASY for them to take the action! offer motivation (start with feeling, then give an intellectual reason to...
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Go Follow Yourself
citizen science / curiosity / Featured / Headline / human tech / intelligent life / self-tracking

Go Follow Yourself

by Maximillian Kaizen on Jan 11, 2011 • No Comments
It’s been going on quietly for years; the brains and bodies of nerds and athletes have been coupled to all manner of sensors and data-netting gizmos (voluntarily and without medical intervention) from heart-rate monitors, biofeedback fingerware, sleep trackers, wearable cameras, oximeters, accelerometers, blood-pressure cuffs, GPS to old-fashioned stopwatches employed to track and map the data...
Don't wait
heroes / my tribe

Don’t wait

by Maximillian Kaizen on Nov 26, 2010 • 6 Comments
“Don’t ever save anything for a special occasion. Being alive is the special occasion.“  – Mary Manin Morrissey There are those whose genius radiates from the heart. Their gift is not an EQ thing, it’s a steady, clear goodness that isn’t saintly or soppy either. It’s strong and funny and easy to be around, but...
When thinking gets too expensive
blog / dailymaverick / human tech / intelligent life / learning events

When thinking gets too expensive

by Maximillian Kaizen on Oct 27, 2010 • 6 Comments
What luck for rulers, that men do not think. – Adolph Hitler The Internet is a copy machine.  At a fundamental distribution level, but also at the human content level. Copying what we see and like, or realise gets results, is one of the keys to how humans have been such a successful species. What...
Out where social media isn't a vanity sport
blog / heroes / human tech / learning events / open education / storytelling

Out where social media isn’t a vanity sport

by Maximillian Kaizen on Oct 18, 2010 • 4 Comments
There was a time not too long ago, when the bit that followed Marlon Parker‘s name on a speaker’s list was “Cape Peninsula University of Technology”. One of those times was at a dinner to wrap up the 4th iteration of Nomadic Marketing. Marlon was introducing the Reconstructed Living project (RLabs), using that most loved-by-teens|vilified-by-teachers/parents...
heroes / mindsnack / storytelling

stories trump stats

by Maximillian Kaizen on Oct 14, 2010 • No Comments
data takes on new life and utility when it's nested in stuff regular human brains can make sense of. It's well worth learning to wrap scary numbers in compelling tales to help others tap a little of their heroic alter-egos occasionally too.

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