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When Vivek Ranadivé decided to coach his daughter Anjali’s basketball team, he settled on two principles. The first was that he would never raise his voice.

His second principle, was that his team would play a real full-court press, every game, all the time.

What happened, Arreguín-Toft wondered, when the underdogs likewise acknowledged their weakness and chose an unconventional strategy? He went back and re-analyzed his data. In those cases, David’s winning percentage went from 28.5 to 63.6. When underdogs choose not to play by Goliath’s rules, they win, Arreguín-Toft concluded, “even when everything we think we know about power says they shouldn’t.”

Eurisko was an outsider.

Insurgents work harder than Goliath. But their other advantage is that they will do what is “socially horrifying”—they will challenge the conventions about how battles are supposed to be fought.

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11 weeks ago by mwfogleman

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Using Computing Might, Google Improves Translation Tool - NYTimes.com
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march 2010 by mwfogleman

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Gary Flake: is Pivot a turning point for web exploration? | Video on TED.com
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march 2010 by mwfogleman

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James Cameron: Before Avatar ... a curious boy | Video on TED.com
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march 2010 by mwfogleman

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And Data for All: Why Obama's Geeky New CIO Wants to Put All Gov't Info Online
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june 2009 by mwfogleman

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Open Government Innovation Gallery
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may 2009 by mwfogleman

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TED | Joining TED | TEDx (beta)
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may 2009 by mwfogleman

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The Next Killer App is to Twitter as 1-2-3 was to Visicalc (Scripting News)
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april 2009 by mwfogleman

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The Real Pirate Bay - Umair Haque - HarvardBusiness.org

Set up a torrent tracker, get fined, go to jail.

Join a bank, destroy the economy, profit.

Let's draw out the distinction.

The Pirate Bay guys were criminally prosecuted for....violating (largely obsolete) copyright. Almost no one in finance has been held even civilly liable for vastly more economically damaging actions.

On the one hand, we have damages worth maybe (maybe) a few million. On the other, a few trillion.

On the one hand, innovation and better music is stifled - benefits are foregone. On the other, reform of a broken banking system is stifled - losses are incurred.

That's everything that's wrong with the economy in two sentences: the ongoing inability of today's leaders to deal with 21st century economics.

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april 2009 by mwfogleman

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What if our tech is good enough? | News | TechRadar UK

The problem of 'good enough' is a huge headache for the tech industry. When your computer isn't good enough – when a slow processor, meagre memory and tiny hard disk struggle with even everyday tasks – you'll buy a better model as soon as it becomes available.

Now, though, the weakest link isn't your PC: it's you.

Will a 200-core processor make you type an email more quickly, make you work more productively or make your Facebook status updates any more amusing?

Like Frankenstein, the tech industry is creating strange hybrids by cobbling together whatever is to hand – and just like Frankenstein, its ultimate aim is to find a way to live forever.

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april 2009 by mwfogleman

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StumbleUpon Breaks Free from eBay - Founders Buy it Back - ReadWriteWeb

We've got high hopes for this deal, just like we do for the rumored founder buy-back of Skype from eBay.

Founders are where the innovative juice is, often, and if a big conglomerate that buys those startups can't figure out how to make effective use of these incredibly disruptive technologies - then they should get out of the way.

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april 2009 by mwfogleman

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Five Technologies Tim O'Reilly Says Point Past Web 2.0 - ReadWriteWeb

Tim O'Reilly, co-founder of the Web 2.0 Conference, gave a short address on the 5th anniversary of that event at tonight's Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco and offered some thoughts on what's going to come next. He discussed five applications that he believes point the way.

Two themes stood out: sensors will surpass humans in front of their keyboards as the primary data source on the web and Moore's Law will need to be applied to humanity's greatest problems.

It's time for the Web to get smarter, O'Reilly said. Having just become a grandfather, he drew a parallel between the evolution of the web and human development. The early days of search engines were like a child just putting things in its mouth, wondering what they are. Now the web is starting to use all of its senses together to do do something with the information it has access too. Here's where he's seeing that happen.

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april 2009 by mwfogleman

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Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable « Clay Shirky

One of the people I was hanging around with online back then was Gordy Thompson, who managed internet services at the New York Times. I remember Thompson saying something to the effect of “When a 14 year old kid can blow up your business in his spare time, not because he hates you but because he loves you, then you got a problem.” I think about that conversation a lot these days.

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march 2009 by mwfogleman

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Overcoming Bias: Against Free Thinkers

The problem is that on average people who support odd ideas are less desirable as associates, and less discriminating in which ideas they endorse. If people only endorsed odd ideas when they had new information suggesting such ideas were promising, we should be eager to hear of such news, and eager to associate with such people. But in fact the main task faced by those with good news on odd ideas is to distinguish themselves from freethinkers who just pretend to have such news. Contrary to their self-image, undiscriminating freethinkers are our main obstacle to innovation.

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january 2009 by mwfogleman

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Overcoming Bias: Even When Contrarians Win, They Lose

If you want credit as an innovator then you should be conservative. Become prestigious in a conservative way, until late in your career. Reject non-standard views but not explicitly; just ignore them so your quotes won't bite you later. When the time is right, look around for ripe once-contrarian ideas and take one. Change the name and vary the methods and topics, grab the first few high profile resources, and trash the original contrarians as weirdos. If you instead want influence, then go ahead and be contrarian early in your career. You are still well advised to be radical in a conservative way, but know that influence is easier than it seems, even if credit is harder that it seems. Most important, know that the fact that few support your contrarian view says less than it might seem about how reasonable is your view. Most people prefer credit to influence, and credit-seekers are better off rejecting a non-standard view now and grabbing it later, should it succeed.

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january 2009 by mwfogleman

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DreamHost Blog » A Strike on One Laptop Per Child
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december 2008 by mwfogleman

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Schneier on Security: Quantum Cryptography

Oh SNAP.

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october 2008 by mwfogleman

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David Perry on videogames | Video on TED.com
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october 2008 by mwfogleman

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Fighting to take off - The Boston Globe
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october 2008 by mwfogleman

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Sugata Mitra shows how kids teach themselves | Video on TED.com

Speaking at LIFT 2007, Sugata Mitra talks about his Hole in the Wall project. Young kids in this project figured out how to use a PC on their own -- and then taught other kids. He asks, what else can children teach themselves?