Tag: #Migrated-1727203846696
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Giving flyers the right to choose
No, not paper flyers — this is not a write up on the rights of cheap handouts given out by a club promoter with too much hair gel. I’m talking humans on planes; the people that Boeing doesn’t care about. The tragedies that happened on Lion Air Flight 610 and Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 were part of…
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She works on a park bench
A woman sits on a park bench, writing in her notebook. Another types on her phone. Our perception is that the former is noble, and the latter a drone. Is this because we romanticize the old? Is there something unsettling about the multitude of activities possible on an obscure device – one may either be…
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Our tech’s lack of context-awareness
There is something missing in our devices and applications. A massive layer that makes everything feel individual, static, and somewhat dumb. That layer is contextual memory. Think about when you’re browsing something and you remember “where have I seen this before?”. You open up your browser history and start typing only to find nothing of…
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Education is about learning facilitation, not teaching
Before the internet, and before any broadcasting media, teaching made a lot of sense. We needed people to walk into the classroom and transmit their knowledge to people, because there was no other place with a store of it that was easy to access and navigate. This is no longer true today. With a phone…
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Understanding the business model of your innovation
Today’s entrepreneurs have many tools at their disposal to help them validate complex business models. The most popular is Alexander Osterwalder’s Business Model Canvas (BMC), which is also what our instructors and coaches use here at District 3 with our startups. The BMC from Strategyzer However, even with only nine building blocks, the BMC can…