Category: Wanderings

The internet is cool

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The internet is cool. We all know it. But why?

Seth Godin puts it succinctly:

The dryest, cleanest environment of all is the digital one. Code stays code. If it works today, it’s probably going to work tomorrow.The wettest, weirdest environment is human interaction. Whatever we build gets misunderstood, corroded and chronic, and it happens quickly and in unpredictable ways. That’s one reason why the web is so fascinating—it’s a collision between the analytic world of code and the wet world of people.

The opportunity cascade

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We look at opportunities and feel many things. One common reaction is excitement with fear. The joy of feeling something new combined with the fear of the unknown.

To be able to make use of the opportunity we need to overcome the fear and embrace the excitement. One way to do that would be to look at an opportunity not as a single occurrence but a beginning. Kevin Kelly calls it an opportunity cascade. One door will open many doors, which will open many more doors.

As for overcoming the fear, we already know that there is a way.