110323 Joel Salatin @ TEDxMidAtlantic

Those who’ve read Omnivores Dilemma by Michael Pollan or watched the documentary movie Food Inc. may be familiar with Joel Salatin. For the uninitiated, he’s a farmer, author, and public speaker. From the three generation family farm in Swoope, Virginia he’s been fighting, writing, and lecturing on the challenges and shortcomings of industrial agriculture and read more…

110313 Jack Dorsey Square CEO and Co-Founder of Twitter

By now most people have heard of the social network Twitter but my guess is few people outside of technology know Jack Dorsey, the man behind the phenomenon nor his latest venture Square, the mobile payment processing company. His observations on mobile payments as a platform and the potential of payments as a communication medium are read more…

110312 Rethinking Predictions

In light of the recent devastation in Japan, perhaps its time (again) to acknowledge the limits of our knowledge and pay heed to those constraints when making predictions about nature specifically and complex systems in general (such as economics, world trade, and the environment). While watching yet another dumbfounded scientist babble about how their assumptions read more…