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Jim talks with Douglas Rushkoff about the ideas in his podcast monologue/Substack post "Why I'm Finally Leaving X and Probably All Social Media." They discuss Douglas's history with social media, the early social internet, Facebook's parasitism of legacy news, the decontextualization of content, The WELL, owning your own words, leaving Facebook in 2013, Jim's social media sabbaticals, the opportunity to create an info agent, the number of daily interruptions, attention-deficit disorder as an adaptive strategy, books versus articles, effects of long-term social media use, the quest for nominal identity, how careful curation improves X, using social media as a professional writer, the organic in-between, strong vs weak social links, the ability of strong links to hold & metabolize, how the internet spawns billionaires, airline subsidies, Girardian mimesis, liberal universal humanism, rebuilding embodied life at the Dunbar number, John Vervaeke's "religion that is not a religion," starting where you are, and much more. Episode Transcript "Why I'm Finally Leaving X and Probably All Social Media," by Douglas Rushkoff Team Human, by Douglas Rushkoff Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity, by Douglas Rushkoff The WELL JRS EP30 - Nora Bateson on Complexity & the Transcontextual JRS EP 184 - Dave Snowden on Managing Complexity in Times of Crisis JRS EP 190 - Peter Turchin on Cliodynamics and End Times JRS EP 170 - John Vervaeke and Jordan Hall on The Religion That Is Not a Religion Named one of the “world's ten most influential intellectuals” by MIT, Douglas Rushkoff is an author and documentarian who studies human autonomy in a digital age. His twenty books include the just-published Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires, as well as the recent Team Human, based on his podcast, and the bestsellers Present Shock, Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus, Program or Be Programmed, Life Inc, and Media Virus. He also made the PBS Frontline documentaries Generation Like, The Persuaders, and Merchants of Cool. His book Coercion won the Marshall McLuhan Award, and the Media Ecology Association honored him with the first Neil Postman Award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity. Rushkoff's work explores how different technological environments change our relationship to narrative, money, power, and one another. He coined such concepts as “viral media,” “screenagers,” and “social currency,” and has been a leading voice for applying digital media toward social and economic justice. He is a research fellow of the Institute for the Future, and founder of the Laboratory for Digital Humanism at CUNY/Queens, where he is a Professor of Media Theory and Digital Economics. He is a columnist for Medium, and his novels and comics, Ecstasy Club, A.D.D, and Aleister & Adolf, are all being developed for the screen.

Jim talks with Douglas Rushkoff about the ideas in his essay series, "What's a Meta For?" They discuss Facebook's renaming to Meta, the semantic web, ChatGPT, a Turing test recalibration period, Rocco's Basilisk, the conversion of the real world into a meta-world, Elon Musk as techno-monarch, the limitations of his understanding of free speech, returning Twitter to the people who use it, Zuckerberg's Caesar obsession, Rushkoff's criticisms of GameB, the dangers of an abstracted "omega point," understanding the complex binding energies of GameA, dominant political isms as a result of industrialism, GameB's schism over personal vs institutional change, the need to actually deliver, coherent pluralism, what being a member of GameB will mean, dangers of a totalizing narrative, not knowing what GameB is, cultivated insecurity, rejecting the metaverse, GameB's resilient response to critiques, and much more. Episode Transcript Douglas Rushkoff (website) "What's a Meta For?" by Douglas Rushkoff (part 1 and 2) Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires, by Douglas Rushkoff Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity, by Douglas Rushkoff JRS Currents 051: Douglas Rushkoff on the Once and Future Internet Character.AI "If I Were CEO of Twitter," by Douglas Rushkoff "The Liminal Web: Mapping An Emergent Subculture Of Sensemakers, Meta-Theorists & Systems Poets," by Joe Lightfoot Hierarchy in the Forest: The Evolution of Egalitarian Behavior, by Christopher Boehm The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity, by David Graeber & David Wengrow Doomer Optimism JRS Currents 049: Ashley Colby & Jason Snyder on Doomer Optimism Named one of the “world's ten most influential intellectuals” by MIT, Douglas Rushkoff is an author and documentarian who studies human autonomy in a digital age. His twenty books include the just-published Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires, as well as the recent Team Human, based on his podcast, and the bestsellers Present Shock, Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus, Program or Be Programmed, Life Inc, and Media Virus. He also made the PBS Frontline documentaries Generation Like, The Persuaders, and Merchants of Cool. His book Coercion won the Marshall McLuhan Award, and the Media Ecology Association honored him with the first Neil Postman Award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity. Rushkoff's work explores how different technological environments change our relationship to narrative, money, power, and one another. He coined such concepts as “viral media,” “screenagers,” and “social currency,” and has been a leading voice for applying digital media toward social and economic justice. He is a research fellow of the Institute for the Future, and founder of the Laboratory for Digital Humanism at CUNY/Queens, where he is a Professor of Media Theory and Digital Economics. He is a columnist for Medium, and his novels and comics, Ecstasy Club, A.D.D, and Aleister & Adolf, are all being developed for the screen.

Welcome to the F23 Podcast another great guest, Douglas Rushkoff. Douglas Rushkoff is the host of the Team Human podcast and author of Team Human as well as a dozen other bestselling books on media, technology, and culture, including, Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity, Present Shock, Program or Be Programmed, Media Virus, and the novel Ecstasy Club. He is Professor of Media Theory and Digital Economics at CUNY/Queens. We talk Team Human, effective ways of making change, his new book, appreciating what is and find the others. Find Doughttps://rushkoff.com/https://www.teamhuman.fm/OK Comics https://okcomics.co.uk/Find me Twitter & insta @JimthediamondBuy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/jimthediamond66640Theme tune: Daisy Eris Campbell & Tom BakerMusic: Tom Crossland

Dr. Douglas Rushkoff, author and educator discusses economic "cooporativism" and circular economics. Dr. Rushkoff sets the premise that if the rest of the Country replicated many of the economic strategies used in Black communities, we could resolve many of the challenges being faced. Winner of the Media Ecology Association’s first Neil Postman award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity, Dr. Douglas Rushkoff is an author, teacher, and documentarian who focuses on the ways people, cultures, and institutions create, share, and influence each other’s values. He is Professor of Media Theory and Digital Economics at CUNY/Queens, where he founded the Laboratory for Digital Humanism. He is a columnist for Medium, technology and media commentator for CNN, a research fellow at the Institute for the Future, and a lecturer on media, technology, culture and economics around the world. His new book, a manifesto called Team Human, calls for the retrieval of human autonomy in a digital age. Prior to that, his book Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity argued that we have failed to build the distributed economy that digital networks are capable of fostering, and instead doubled down on the industrial age mandate of growth above all. Rushkoff has taught regularly for NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program, The New School University, the MaybeLogic Academy and the Esalen Institute. He also lectures about media, art, society, and change at conferences and universities around the world. He has been awarded a Fullbright Scholarship, and Senior Fellowships by the Markle Foundation, the Center for Global Communications, and the International University of Japan. He served as an Advisor to the United Nations Commission on World Culture and regularly appears on TV shows from NBC Nightly News and Larry King to the Colbert Report and Bill Maher. Rushkoff is on the board of several new media non-profits and companies, and regularly speaks about media, society and ethics to museums, governments, synagogues, churches, universities, and companies.

I delve into Rushkoff’s (2016) concept of ‘digital distributism’ and ponder why people feel the need to assign gender to menu options.  Links and Show Notes Rushkoff, D., 2016, Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity, Portfolio/Penguin. Table of business approaches from page 225 of Rushkoff’s (2016) book 29. Mass versus … Continue reading "52. Gendered Food"

The sharing economy is a phenomenon. But what is it exactly? The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission says it “connects consumers to people who have products or services to sell, hire or lease via an online platform.” And “It includes services such as Airbnb and Uber.” But the folk at the heart of the sharing economy call that commerce – and in some cases, mere extensions of the current extractive economy that is driving us into multiple crises. Last year Anthony hosted the launch of a brilliant new book produced by Shareable. Shareable is an award-winning, non-profit, global hub of news, action and connection for the sharing transformation. It calls this transformation “a movement of movements, emerging from the grassroots, to solve today's biggest challenges”, from poverty to global warming – the challenges that old, top-down institutions are failing to address. The book is called ‘Sharing Cities: Activating the Urban Commons', a how-to guide showcasing over 100 sharing-related case studies and model policies from more than 80 cities. “From community composting to makerspaces, repair cafés and platform co-operatives, people are coming together in cities everywhere to develop solutions for the common good. They show that sharing can lead everyone to have more, together.” Leading the conversation is the Australian editor of Shareable, Director of Social Surplus, and Research Fellow at the Monash Sustainable Development Institute, Darren Sharp, with a 10-minute keynote. Then we're joined by special guests: - Lizette Salmon, a pioneering figure in the Repair Café movement, founding coordinator of Albury-Wodonga's popular Repair Café, and Coordinator of WATCH (Wodonga Albury Towards Climate Health). - Dr Jose Ramos, co-founder of the Footscray Maker Lab, Director of Action Foresight, and fellow founding board member with Darren of the growing New Economy Network Australia. Their 5-minute responses are followed by audience Q&A, all taking place at the 2018 National Sustainable Living Festival. Incidentally, some of the endorsements from around the world for the book ‘Sharing Cities' are recommended reading in themselves: “Once again, Shareable shows how we can retrieve the very best features of urban life — consciously, constructively, and creatively.” - Douglas Rushkoff, author of “Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity” and host of the Team Human podcast (Douglas features on podcast #041) Theme music: The System, by the Public Opinion Afro Orchestra. Get more: On Shareable and the book Sharing Cities, including how to purchase it or download a free PDF - https://www.shareable.net/sharing-cities/ On Darren Sharp and Social Surplus – http://www.socialsurplus.com.au On Lizette Salmon and the Repair Café Albury Wodonga (with links to others) - http://ecoportal.net.au/groups/repair-cafe-albury-wodonga/?fbclid=IwAR1ymgkvgrbAU2TKdZKq0FOIjwLft-QZFWMyO975fM_HvK91BYGueqi9rTs On Dr Jose Ramos and Action Foresight - https://actionforesight.net/ourteam/ On the National Sustainable Living Festival - http://www.slf.org.au And the New Economy Network Australia – https://www.neweconomy.org.au Oh, and the Apple proposal at Melbourne's Federation Square has since been canned. The Victorian government is currently seeking public input on what happens next - https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/fed-square-s-yarra-building-could-still-be-torn-down-minister-says-20190802-p52d7s.html Join us at our first live conversation event in Perth, on Monday the 23rd of September at The Platform - www.regennarration.com/events/trebeck2019 Say hello & send us your comments by text or audio - www.regennarration.com/story Thanks to our community of listeners and partners for making the hours of labour that go into each episode possible. Please consider supporting the podcast by donating or becoming a podcast partner at www.regennarration.com/support. Thanks for listening!

In this segment, bestselling author and media theorist Douglas Rushkoff discusses his views on the whistleblower organization WikiLeaks and its Editor Julian Assange, the controversial DNC email leaks released during the 2016 U.S. presidential election, and what Julian Assange’s motivations behind the leaks may have been. I ask Douglas to share his thoughts on whistleblowing in the digital age, his view on the pro-transparency activism of whistleblower organizations like WikiLeaks, and the question of whether democracy is truly possible and attainable in our media-saturated culture. Douglas Rushkoff is a writer, documentarian, and lecturer. Douglas has authored numerous best-selling books, including ‘Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity,’ ‘Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now,’ ‘Program or Be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age,’ and the yet-to-be released ’Team Human.’ He is Professor of Media Theory and Digital Economics at CUNY/Queens. He wrote the graphic novels ‘Aleister & Adolf,’ ‘Testament,’ and ‘A.D.D.,’ and made the television documentaries ‘Generation Like,’ ‘Merchants of Cool,’ ‘The Persuaders,’ and ‘Digital Nation.’ He lives in New York, and lectures about media, society, and economics around the world. Douglas’s lifetime of work has focused primarily on human autonomy in the digital age. Learn more about Douglas and his work, and pre-order his upcoming book ‘Team Human’ here: http://www.rushkoff.com This is a segment of episode #138 of Last Born In The Wilderness “Survival of the Richest: Anticipating 'The Event' & The Anti-Human Agenda w/ Douglas Rushkoff.” Listen to the full episode: http://bit.ly/LBWrushkoff WEBSITE: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com SUPPORT THIS PROJECT: Patreon: http://bit.ly/LBWPATREON Donation: http://bit.ly/LBWKOFI FOLLOW & LISTEN: SoundCloud: http://bit.ly/LBWSOUNDCLOUD iTunes: http://bit.ly/LBWITUNES Google Play: http://bit.ly/LBWGOOGLE Stitcher: http://bit.ly/LBWSTITCHER RadioPublic: http://bit.ly/LBWRADIOPUB YouTube: http://bit.ly/LBWYOUTUBE SOCIAL MEDIA: Facebook: http://bit.ly/LBWFACEBOOK Twitter: http://bit.ly/LBWTWITTER Instagram: http://bit.ly/LBWINSTA

In this episode, I speak with writer, documentarian, and lecturer Douglas Rushkoff. Douglas has authored numerous best-selling books, including ‘Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity,’ ‘Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now,’ ‘Program or Be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age,’ and the yet-to-be released ’Team Human.’ Douglas’s lifetime of work has focused primarily on human autonomy in the digital age. We start this episode by discussing Douglas’s widely shared article, published on Medium and picked up by CNBC, ‘Survival of the Richest: The wealthy are plotting to leave us behind.’ In the article, Douglas describes a situation in which he was invited to a private meeting with several ultra-wealthy men to go over their questions regarding technological trends in cryptocurrency, quantum computing, and artificial intelligence, as well as their deep-seated concerns regarding “The Event” — a reference to the portending threat of abrupt climate change, nuclear war, social unrest, and economic collapse looming on the horizon of our collective future. Douglas provides a practical and humanistic response to these concerns regarding this future “Event” — emphasizing the inherent value of fostering human relationships with others outside of the logic of Capital and monetary transactions. From there, we discuss the corporate capitalist take over of the Internet, the (de)colonization of human attention, and the value of treating social media and digital communication as an adjunct to direct human relationships and experience. In the later part of this interview, I ask Douglas to share his thoughts on WikiLeaks, the precarious situation of Julian Assange, and the value of whistleblower organizations like WikiLeaks shedding a light on the internal dealings of corporate and government entities in the digital age. Douglas Rushkoff is the host of the ‘Team Human’ podcast and author of ‘Team Human’ as well as a dozen other bestselling books on media, technology, and culture, including, ‘Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity,’ ‘Present Shock, Program or Be Programmed,’ ‘Media Virus,’ and the novel ‘Ecstasy Club.’ He is Professor of Media Theory and Digital Economics at CUNY/Queens. He wrote the graphic novels ‘Aleister & Adolf,’ ‘Testament,’ and ‘A.D.D.,’ and made the television documentaries ‘Generation Like,’ ‘Merchants of Cool,’ ‘The Persuaders,’ and ‘Digital Nation.’ He lives in New York, and lectures about media, society, and economics around the world.☽ ☽ Source: http://bit.ly/2Muiupl Episode Notes: - Everything you would ever need to know about Douglas and his work can be found at his website: http://www.rushkoff.com - Pre-order Douglas’s upcoming book ‘Team Human’ here: http://bit.ly/TeamHumanPreorder - Read ‘Survival of the Richest: The wealthy are plotting to leave us behind’ here: http://bit.ly/SurvivalOfTheRichest - Listen and subscribe to Douglas’s podcast ‘Team Human’ here: https://teamhuman.fm - Follow Douglas on Twitter: https://twitter.com/rushkoff - The song featured in this episode is “Queen Persephone” by Dirty Art Club from the album Basement Seance. - WEBSITE: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com - SUPPORT THIS PROJECT: Patreon: http://bit.ly/LBWPATREON Donation: http://bit.ly/LBWKOFI - FOLLOW & LISTEN: SoundCloud: http://bit.ly/LBWSOUNDCLOUD iTunes: http://bit.ly/LBWITUNES Google Play: http://bit.ly/LBWGOOGLE Stitcher: http://bit.ly/LBWSTITCHER RadioPublic: http://bit.ly/LBWRADIOPUB YouTube: http://bit.ly/LBWYOUTUBE - SOCIAL MEDIA: Facebook: http://bit.ly/LBWFACEBOOK Twitter: http://bit.ly/LBWTWITTER Instagram: http://bit.ly/LBWINSTA

Es gibt schon eine Menge Bücher, die sich mit dem Thema Kapitalismus, den Grenzen des Wachstums und den Gefahren digitaler Monopolstrukturen auseinandersetzen. Überall finden sich brauchbare oder auch herausragende Einzelgedanken, aber für mich hat sich bisher noch kein konsistentes Gesamtbild ergeben. Das hat Douglas Rushkoff mit seinem Buch “Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity“ bei mir geändert.

Playing for Team Human today is permaculturalist Adam Brock, author of Change Here Now. Adam joins Douglas for a conversation about how humanity is integrally connected to natural ecosystems. “Nature is a textbook,” Adam explains, and so by paying close attention to ecological systems, we can better understand ourselves as part of a greater whole. It’s a theme that serves as the springboard into a conversation not only about the ways we grow food, but also about community, trust, and the deeper sense of connection that comes from a permaculture mindset.Rushkoff opens today’s show with a monologue about Amazon’s recent purchase of Whole Foods and how scaling up in the digital economy threatens to leave humans behind. Rushkoff's most recent book Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity was just released in paperback with new expanded material last week.Adam Brock's new book Change Here Now is available at Amazon and Indie Bound.Adam founded www.thegrowhaus.org and works with The Wild Green Yonder. Also check out the Denver Permaculture Guild.Music in this episode: Mike Watt: beak-holding-letter-man , Joshua Sitron and the Team Human Band play Growth Trap, R.U. Sirius: President Mussolini Makes The Planes Run On Time, Fugazi : Foreman's DogEpisode Photo: By Susanne Bollinger (Susanne Bollinger) [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

25 | Solo | Mein Bücherregal Teil 2 Vorab schon einmal mein Hebel zum Thema Bücher: anstatt Bücher zu lesen, höre ich sie als Hörbücher. Ich habe bei Audible ein Abo (9,95 €/Monat für ein Buch meiner Wahl, jedes weitere Buch 9,95 €) und schaffe mindestens 1 Buch im Monat, das Abo lohnt sich also. Außerdem höre ich mit 1,5 bis 2facher Geschwindigkeit. So kann ich den Hauptinhalt schnell erfassen und komme auf die Bücher zurück, wenn ich sie dann konkret brauche. So schaffe ich es enorm viele Bücher in kurzer Zeit zu hören, vielleicht hilft euch dieser Hebel ja auch. Außerdem: Auf Goodreads könnt ihr sehen, welche Bücher ich abgesehen von den hier vorgestellten sonst so gelesen habe, falls euch das auch interessiert. Wie beim letzten Mal sind die Überschriften wieder direkt mit Amazon verlinkt, sodass ihr die Bücher direkt kaufen könnt (und ich ein paar Prozente bekomme :) ) Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World - Jane McGonigal In diesem Buch geht es darum, wie uns "Gamification" motiviert, Dinge zu tun. Ich zum Beispiel habe jeden Tag meine Listen, die ich abarbeiten möchte. Ich will 3 Gläser Wasser trinken, ich will jeden Abend meinen Tagesabschluss machen und so weiter. Es ist für mich wie ein Spiel, diese Liste jeden Tag komplett abgehakt zu haben und es frustriert mich, wenn ich es nicht schaffe. So kann man natürlich nicht nur sein eigenes Leben gamifizieren, sondern auch beispielsweise die Mitarbeiter in der Firma motivieren. Bei mir wirkt das enorm gut, vielleicht ist das ja bei euch ebenfalls so. Wenn euch genauer interessiert, wie ich meinen Tag organisiere, dann schaut doch hier vorbei. A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future - Daniel Pink Man kann in der Wirtschaft beobachten, dass alle Jobs, die nicht mit Kreativität verbunden sind, immer mehr durch Computer bzw. Roboter ersetzt werden. Damit euch das nicht passiert, solltet ihr euch immer die Frage stellen, ob das was ihr macht einen ernsthaften Wert liefert. Um das rauszufinden, habe ich aus dem Buch mal drei Fragen heraus gesucht: 1. Kann es jemand günstiger machen? Hier geht es auch um das Thema Outsourcing. 2. Könnte es ein Computer schneller erledigen? Man denke hier zum Beispiel an die Buchhaltung und was sich dort durch den Computer getan hat. 3. Schafft ihr einen bleibenden Wert im Zeitalter des Überflusses? Wir haben ja alles zur Verfügung, deswegen muss schon was mit Mehrwert her. Man kann ja mal drüber nachdenken, schadet ja nicht. Das große 1x1 der Erfolgsstrategie: EKS® - Erfolg durch Spezialisierung - Kerstin Friedrich EKS - engpasskonzentrierte Strategie - ist ja öfter Thema bei mir, weil ich es echt wichtig finde. Der Kern ist, dass wenn eine Ressource fehlt, dann kann noch so viel von allem anderen da sein, das Wachstum geht nicht weiter. Eine Pflanze zum Beispiel braucht Wasser, Licht, Phosphor, Kalium... Wenn eines fehlt, wird die Pflanze sterben, auch wenn noch so viel von allem anderen da ist. Bei der EKS geht es darum, die Engpässe in anderen Firmen zu erkennen, und die passende Lösung zu liefern. Wenn ihr ein Produkt anbietet, was den Engpass in vielen Firmen löst, dann seid ihr natürlich der Hit. Mir hat dieses Buch und das Konzept viel weiter geholfen, ich empfehle es euch wärmstens. 80/20 Sales and Marketing: The Definitive Guide to Working Less and Making More - Perry Marshall Die 80/20 Regel besagt, dass 80% eures Umsatzes von 20% eurer Kunden kommen. Deswegen ist es gut zu wissen, wer diese 20% sind damit ihr mehr solcher Kunden anwerben könnt. Im Buch wird alles zwar aufs Marketing bezogen, aber es ist trotzdem hilfreich, das Buch zu lesen wenn ihr ein Unternehmen habt. Für mich war auf jeden Fall viel Hilfreiches dabei. Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future - Peter Thiel Peter Thiel, der Autor, ist der PayPal Gründer, vielleicht kennt ihr ihn ja daher. Er ist auf jeden Fall einer der erfolgreichsten Unternehmer im Silicon Valley. Im Buch geht es darum, wie man als Startup von der Idee, also von Zero, zu einem funktionierenden Produkt, also zu One, kommt. Später dann kann man auch an der Vervielfachung des Produkts arbeiten, also von 1 to n. Das sind unternehmerisch zwei komplett verschiedene Dinge und es ist auch nicht jeder im Stande, beides zu können. Ich zum Beispiel bin eher der Zero to One Typ, aber in der Vervielfältigung bin ich nicht so gut. Da sollte ich dann wohl Kooperationen eingehen. Außerdem geht auch er auf das Thema ein, wie die EKS auch, dass ihr mit eurem Produkt ein konstantes Bedürfnis befriedigen müsst, um langfristig Erfolg zu haben. Finite and Infinite Games - James Carse Ich bin ganz ehrlich: dieses Buch ist unglaublich schwer zu lesen. Die Quintessenz ist, dass es endliche und unendliche Spiele gibt (das ganze Leben wird als Spiel aufgefasst). Ein endliches Spiel wäre zum Beispiel ein Fußballspiel, da ist vornherein klar, dass es irgendwann endet. Ein Unternehmen hingegen ist ein unendliches Spiel, es soll ja im besten Fall nicht aufhören. Auch das Leben selbst kann man als endlich oder als unendlich betrachten: Entweder strebt man nach einem bestimmtem Ziel, zum Beispiel 1 Million Euro zu haben, oder man strebt beispielsweise danach, glücklich zu sein. Der Vorteil und Nachteil an unendlichen Spielen ist, dass es kein Ende gibt. Am besten sollte man sich also unendliche Spiele aufbauen, bei denen das Spielen so viel Spaß macht, dass man kein Ende braucht. Glücklich sein ist also gar kein schlechtes Spiel. Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior - Geoffrey Miller In diesem Buch habe ich zum ersten Mal verstanden, wie Dekadenz funktioniert. Warum kaufen Leute teure Autos und riesige Häuser? Im Grunde klar: Weil sie zeigen wollen, dass sie so viel Geld haben, dass sie so verschwenderisch damit umgehen können. Leute, die sich für Geld interessieren, werden tief beeindruckt sein. Oftmals das andere Geschlecht, was ja auch im Grunde das Ziel ist aus evolutionärer Sicht. Heute mag es das Geld sein, früher waren es andere Ressourcen, mit denen durch verschwenderischen Umgang geprahlt werden sollte. Mitunter sogar das Leben: Wenn ein Seefahrer von oben bis unten tätowiert war und trotzdem noch lebte (Tätowierungen waren vorm Sterilisieren der Geräte nämlich echt gefährlich), war das ein Zeichen dafür, dass er einen starken Körper hat. Das schindet natürlich Eindruck beim Arbeitgeber wie bei den Frauen. Ein wirklich interessantes Buch um die Welt etwas besser zu verstehen. Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity - Douglas Rushkoff Ein Buch zum Thema Anti-Innovation. Es geht darum, dass Start-Ups heute oft nach immer mehr Wachstum streben und schnell viel Geld machen wollen. Dabei sind sie oft auf Investoren angewiesen, und befinden sich dann in einer Mühle, da sie ja wachsen müssen, damit es sich für die Investoren lohnt. Aber das muss ja nicht sein. Man kann auch langsam wachsen, keiner zwingt einen dazu, riesig zu werden. Ich zum Beispiel habe gar nicht das Ziel ein riesiges Unternehmen zu erschaffen, ich muss nur gut davon leben können. Das reicht mir erst mal. Ein guter Podcast zu diesem Thema ist Team Human von Douglas Rushkoff, in dem er erzählt, warum wir vielleicht nicht alle Ressourcen verballern sollten. Smart Business Concepts - Ehrenfried und Brigitte Conta Gromberg Ehrenfried Conta Gromberg hatte ich ja auch schon mal bei mir im Podcast. In dem Buch geht es darum, welche Unternehmensformen es so gibt. Er und seine Frau sind gut darin, Kategorien zu entwickeln, und daraus abgeleitet Handlungsanweisungen. Es gibt also verschiedene Businessmodelle, und dann kann man natürlich sein Produkt auch innerhalb der Modelle noch auf verschiedne Weise anbieten. Mir gefällt an den Arbeiten von Ehrenfried und Brigitte Conta Gromberg immer gut, dass sie so gut Kategorien bilden und Vorgehensweisen ableiten können. Auch sehr lesenswert auf jeden Fall. Und auch an dieser Stelle würde ich mich wieder über euer Feedback für meinen Jahresrückblick freuen! Da ich den nicht direkt an Silvester raushauen werde, habt ihr auch noch etwas länger Zeit. Also gebt Laut, ich würde mich darüber freuen :) Super cool wären ja auch Audio Dateien mit eurem Feedback, die ich dann aber auch automatisch in den nächsten Podcast mit rein schneiden darf. Schickt mir dafür eine Audiodatei per WhatsApp oder als Datei in ner Email oder wie ihr wollt. Natürlich freue ich mich auch ungemein über eure Buchtipps, her damit! Ich will ja schließlich meine 1000 Bücher voll kriegen! Der Link zu meinem Goodreads bookshelf: http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/8133711-alex-boerger Link zur Bonus HebelZeit Folge: http://hebelzeit.de/bonus/personal-scrum/ Podcast von Douglas Rushkoff und Team Human: http://teamhuman.fm/#content-pro Und fürs Feedback: http://hebelzeit.de/kontakt-impressum/

Winner of the Media Ecology Association's first Neil Postman award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity, Dr. Douglas Rushkoff is an author, teacher, and documentarian who focuses on the ways people, cultures, and institutions create, share, and influence each other's values. He is Professor of Media Theory and Digital Economics at CUNY/Queens, technology and media commentator for CNN, digital literacy advocate for Codecademy.com and a lecturer on media, technology, culture and economics around the world. His new book, Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity, argues that we have failed to build the distributed economy that digital networks are capable of fostering, and instead doubled down on the industrial age mandate of growth above all. His previous best-selling books on media and popular culture have been translated to over thirty languages. They include Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now, Program or Be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age, a followup to his Frontline documentary, Digital Nation, and Life Inc, an analysis of the corporate spectacle, which was also made into a short, award-winning film. His other books include Cyberia, Media Virus, Playing the Future, Nothing Sacred: The Truth about Judaism, Get Back in the Box: Innovation from the Inside Out and Coercion, winner of the Marshall Mcluhan Award for best media book. Rushkoff also wrote the acclaimed novels Ecstasy Club and Exit Strategy and graphic novel, Club Zero-G. He wrote the graphic novels Testament and A.D.D., for Vertigo. He has written and hosted three award-winning PBS Frontline documentaries – The Merchants of Cool looked at the influence of corporations on youth culture, The Persuaders, about the cluttered landscape of marketing, and new efforts to overcome consumer resistance, and Digital Nation, about life on the virtual frontier. Most recently, he made Generation Like, an exploration of teens, marketers, and social media. He has been awarded a Fullbright Scholarship, and Senior Fellowships by the Markle Foundation, the Center for Global Communications, and the International University of Japan. He served as an Advisor to the United Nations Commission on World Culture and regularly appears on TV shows from NBC Nightly News and Larry King to the Colbert Report and Bill Maher. He developed the Electronic Oracle software series for HarperCollins Interactive. In this episode, we talk about how he sees the purpose of Judaism is to help one transcend Judaism, the psycho-social peril of living in the digital now, and how the new media empires has failed to build the distributed economy that digital networks are capable of fostering, and instead doubled down on the industrial age mandate of growth above all. I got to talk to one of my heroes, and this show made it possible. Thanks, OTBR listeners. You make it all possible. Enjoy!

Jessica Ann took some time away to release her new book, Humanize Your Brand: How to Create Content that Connects with Your Customers, published to rave reviews in February 2016. It's available on Amazon as a paperback and ebook, and an audiobook version will be released soon.  Thanks for your patience as the show took a bit of a break. In the Art of Humanity, we explore creativity + consciousness to allow you and your business to evolve. In Episode 17, Jessica Ann talks with one of the world's greatest thinkers: media theorist and futurist Douglass Rushkoff. Rushkoff is an author, teacher, and documentarian who focuses on the ways people, cultures, and institutions create, share, and influence each other's values. He is the author of Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now as well as a dozen other bestselling books on media, technology, and culture, including Program or Be Programmed, Media Virus, Life Inc and the novel Ecstasy Club. His latest book is called Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity, available for pre-order on Amazon. He is Professor of Media Theory and Digital Economics at CUNY/Queens. He wrote the graphic novels Testament and A.D.D., and made the television documentaries Generation Like, Merchants of Cool, The Persuaders, and Digital Nation. He lives in New York, and lectures about media, society, and economics around the world. The interview starts off talking about his background, then goes into technology, humanity, and maybe a little bit about...Donald Trump.  

Named one of ten most influential thinkers in the world by MIT, Doug Rushkoff asks some seriously big questions on this episode of Curious Minds. The biggest one is: what if an economy predicated on growth is unsustainable? Growth at companies like General Electric (GE) used to mean jobs for hundreds of thousands of people. That same growth, at companies like Facebook and Google, yields, at most, tens of thousands of jobs. As growth-oriented tech companies absorb more jobs through smarter tech and automation, is this an opportunity to rethink the nature of work, jobs, and the overall economy? Doug Rushkoff asks us to consider that topic in his latest bestselling book, Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity. Rushkoff is a professor of media theory and digital economics at Queens College, CUNY. He is the bestselling author of a dozen other books, including Present Shock, Program or Be Programmed, and Life Inc. In this episode, we talk about: Why Doug sees growth as the culprit in our current economy The unmet promise of technology and the long tail for artists and creatives How big data analytics reduces unpredictability and, thereby, innovation Ways more of us can take ownership of the platforms putting us out of work How it is not the job we want but the meaning, purpose, and material benefits work gives Money as a verb How currency tools like blockchain can help us rethink power and authority Twitter as a textbook case of tech success but growth company failure How digital distributism can trump digital industrialism The shift from tech as energizing to energy sucking Ruskhoff also talks about how he thinks about technology use in his own life, including which tools he chooses to use and why. Selected Links to Topics Mentioned @rushkoff www.rushkoff.com Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus by Doug Rushkoff eBay Etsy Operating system Bazaar Crusades Burning Man Acquisition IPO Wired Chris Anderson Long Tail The Long Tail by Chris Anderson Free by Chris Anderson Mondo 2000 Boing Boing Ponzi scheme Alan Greenspan Taylor Swift Power law dynamics Distributism Venture capital Capital gains tax Blockchain Bitcoin PGP - pretty good privacy Distributism Marxism Capitalism Marshall McLuhan Peer-to-peer economy Lendingtree Fintech Faustian bargain Private equity Flip this house Michael Dell The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert If you enjoy the podcast, please rate and review it on iTunes. For automatic delivery of new episodes, be sure to subscribe. As always, thanks for listening! Thank you to Emmy-award-winning Creative Director Vanida Vae for designing the Curious Minds logo! www.gayleallen.net LinkedIn @GAllenTC

Author of Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity   Interview starts at 28:24 and ends at 42:21   The people who are throwing rocks at the Google bus, they're on to something. The understand something. We should listen. And we can reconfigure, we can optimize, reprogram our economy to help everybody—That's extremely optimistic. I put myself on the hopeful side of the equation right now.    Intro Elon Musk unveils Tesla Model 3 (YouTube) - March 31, 2016   News “Amazon Takes on PayPal with New Payments Program” at Fortune - April 4, 2016 “Was Horace and Pete” even Television?” by Ian Crouch at The New Yorker - April 6, 2016 “The next hot job in Silicon Valley is for poets” by Elizabeth Dwoskin at The Washington Post - April 7, 2016 “The inside story of how Amazon created Echo, the next billion-dollar business no one saw coming” by Eugene Kim at Business Insider - April 2, 2016  Jeff Bezos's 2015 Letter to Shareholders (PDF) “Kids Are Practicing Their Reading Skills to Soothe Shy Shelter Dogs” by Anna Gragert at My Modern Met - February 24, 2016   Interview with Douglas Rushkoff at South By Southwest Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity Rushkoff at The Commonwealth Club   Content Horace and Pete 10 episodes by Louis C.K., available for purchase Summer Doorways: A Memoir by W. S. Merwin “Alexa, Good Morning!” (Try it yourself.)   Music for my podcast is from an original Thelonius Monk composition named "Well, You Needn't." This version is "Ra-Monk" by Eval Manigat on the "Variations in Time: A Jazz Persepctive" CD by Public Transit Recording" CD.    Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads!

The Kindle Chronicles' first listener   Interview starts at 14:54 and ends at 43:13   I should have known that we'd be building our life around it like we have other things that you've done. I've gotten used to it. I should have known.   Intro Whill wheelchair site   News “Amazon is the ‘most reputable' company in the US” by Julie Bort at Business Insider - March 29, 2016 Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead by Brené Brown Echo Dot and Amazon Tap arrive!   Tech Tip An ethical question about borrowing eBooks from your library with OverDrive   Interview with Darlene TKC 1 with Baratunde Thurston TKC 208 with Jeff Bezos Darlene's art quilts page   Next Week's Guest Douglas Rushkoff, author of Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity - recorded at South by Southwest Interactive   Music for my podcast is from an original Thelonius Monk composition named "Well, You Needn't." This version is "Ra-Monk" by Eval Manigat on the "Variations in Time: A Jazz Persepctive" CD by Public Transit Recording" CD.    Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads!

Start and End Times of Interviews at South by Southwest Interactive Martin Baron, executive editor of The Washington Post (8:20 to 18:34) Scott Totman, head of digital product engineering at Capital One 22:16 to 31:30) Rob Holzer, founder and CEO of Matter Unlimited and executive producer of Inside Impact: East Africa Adrian Bell, co-founder and Executive Director of Action Impact in Dubai   Links to topics mentioned President Obama's Keynote address at SXSW (Video) - March 11, 2016 Dewey Winburne Community Service Awards MEANS database to fight hunger in America http://www.theparentscircle.com/http://www.theparentscircle.com/ Inside Impact: East Africa, 360 Video film by Matter Unlimited for the Clinton Global Initiative Ricoh Theta S Digital Camera at Amazon.com Brené Brown, author of Rising Strong: The Reckoning. The Rumble. The Revolution. OpeneBooks.net Two TED talks by Brené Brown   Next Week's Guests Janis Cooke Newman, Editor-at-Large, Technically Literate Douglas Rushkoff, author of  Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity   Music for my podcast is from an original Thelonius Monk composition named "Well, You Needn't." This version is "Ra-Monk" by Eval Manigat on the "Variations in Time: A Jazz Persepctive" CD by Public Transit Recording" CD.    Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads!

Senior Writer, Publishers Weekly   Interview starts at 19:24 and ends at 33:23 I absolutely think it's madness to continue to push for regulatory input into the eBook market. Look what it did for you last time. Let's just let the lawyers go away now. We've all articulated what we think the problem is in the market. Publishers came together to put the agency model in place, and they perfectly articulated the reason why they believe the agency model should be in place. I think that there's got to be business solutions at this point.    News “Supreme Court Rejects Apple's Appeal” by Andrew Albanese at Publishers Weekly - March 7, 2016 “Supreme Court Declines to Hear Apple's Appeal in E-Book Pricing Case” by Adam Liptak and Vindu Goel at The New York Times - March 7, 2016 Hagens Berman press release on Supreme Court decision - March 8, 2016 “Apple's $400M E-Book Payout: How Much You'll Get and When” by Jeff John Roberts at Fortune - March 8, 2016 Department of Justice press release on Apple case - March 7, 2016 “The Cost of Returning Encryption to Amazon Fire” (video) at BloombergBusiness - March 7, 2016 “Jeff Bezos Lifts Veil on his Rocket Company, Blue Origin” by Kenneth Chang - March 8, 2016 “Why Jeff Bezos is finally ready to talk about taking people to space” by Christian Davenport at The Washington Post - March 8, 2016 “The Echo from Amazon Brims with Groundbreaking Promise” by Farhad Manjoo at The New York Times - March 9, 2016 “B&N is Shutting Down One of Its Top Three Digital Blunders on March 15” by Nate Hoffelder at The Digital Reader - March 3, 2016 “B&N CDO Fred Argir: We Must Win the Mobile Experience” by Daniel Berkowitz at Digital Book World - March 8, 2016   Tech Tips How to save an audio clip using the Audible for Windows 10 app (video and instructions) Kindle for iOS update   Interview with Andrew Albanese “Supreme Court Rejects Apple's Appeal” by Andrew Albanese at Publishers Weekly - March 7, 2016 Stories by Andrew Albanese at Publishers Weekly   Content “How to Format Your Book for Kindle,” a web course by Bruce Jones. (Enter the code KINDLEBONUS to get discounted price of $49 instead of original price, $149 Course link with discount already entered Why We Read Fiction by Lisa Zunshine Putting My Foot Down by Brent Underwood   Next Week's Show An audio collage of voices and ideas from South by Southwest Interactive in Austin, including Douglas Rushkoff, author of a new book, Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity   Music for my podcast is from an original Thelonius Monk composition named "Well, You Needn't." This version is "Ra-Monk" by Eval Manigat on the "Variations in Time: A Jazz Persepctive" CD by Public Transit Recording" CD.    Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads!

Workers lose to automation, investors lose to algorithms, and even tech developers lose their visions to the demands of the startup economy.According to Douglas Rushkoff's new book, Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity, the digital economy has gone wrong, and no one quiet knows how to fix it. The problems lie not with digital technology itself, but in the ways we are deploying it: instead of building a distributed digital economy that new networks could foster, we're doubling down on the industrial age mandate for growth above all.But it doesn't have to be this way. In the era of big data, robots, and the gig economy, Rushkoff calls for a bridge to the human-technology divide in a way that optimizes the economy for the people it's supposed to serve.

Douglas Rushkoff is the author of; ‘Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now’, ‘Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity’ as well as a dozen other bestselling books on media,...

Creator of Kindle Nation Daily and BookGorilla   Interview starts at 9:38 and ends at 39:45   Of the top 100 bestsellers in the Kindle Store for the entire year of 2014, 91 of those books were made available by the publishers at prices that we discovered, put up and featured on BookGorilla. The average price of those 91 on their feature day was $2.92. The total price of those 91 books if you had bought them at their original prices would have been $996. If you bought them on their BookGorilla day it was $265. What's not to like about that?   News Glenn Lurie, CEO of AT&T Mobility interviewed on the re/code replay podcast - October 12, 2015 AmazonCrossing commits $10 more to translations into English (press release) Click here to propose a book for translation by AmazonCrossing Andrew Richard Albanese's review of court cases affecting publishing, at Publisher's Weekly - October 15, 2015   Tech Tip   Interview with Stephen Windwalker Kindle Nation Daily BookGorilla The Post-American World: Release 2.0 by Fareed Zakaria (Audible version) Fall of Giants: The Century Trilogy, Book 1 by Ken Follett, read by John Lee (Audible) Ulysses by James Joyce, read by John Lee (Audible) Audible Membership plans, including the Platinum Annual Membership mentioned by Steve in the interview The Dark-Hunter Series collection thus far by Sherrilyn Kenyon   Content Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity by Douglas Rushkoff (Available for pre-order with delivery March 1, 2016) Essays After Eighty by Donald Hall, who will be my guest on TKC 382 on November 27, 2016   Next Week's Show A reprise of my interview with Jeff Bezos on July 26, 2012 and a conversation with my wife Darlene and her sister Deborah about our trip five years ago to Africa and our plans for Ecuador. Click here for information about Darlene's participation in a show at the Wisconsin Museum of Quilts & Fiber Arts October 21, 2015, through January 10, 2016. The poster for the show has a sample from her “Ellie” quilt, showing the eyes of an elephant we saw in Africa.   How to Travel with us to Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands I will upload four episodes of The Kindle Chronicles during the trip, available in the usual feeds Blog posts will appear regularly at LenEdgerly.com I hope to share at least one photo a day at Instagram.com/LenEdgerly Tweets? Maybe. If so, you will find them at Twitter.com/LenEdgerly   Music for my podcast is from an original Thelonius Monk composition named "Well, You Needn't." This version is "Ra-Monk" by Eval Manigat on the "Variations in Time: A Jazz Persepctive" CD by Public Transit Recording" CD.    Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads!   Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.