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	<title>Daniel Steinbock</title>
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	<description>futures grow from seeds of thought</description>
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		<title>If learning is your goal you cannot fail</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Breaking open
a new day
without waiting
for instructions
Never again
erring on the side!
from now on
I make my mistakes out front
and in the open
And if doubters doubt
and naysayers say nay
well, let them
too
do what comes natural
She who makes life up as she goes
makes no mistake
As the tree that grows in every direction
reaches the sun
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		<link>http://www.steinbock.org/blog/2009/11/11/if-learning-is-your-goal-you-cannot-fail/</link>
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		<title>Things I left unsaid</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In my short time on Earth I&#8217;ve made a handful of original (pseudo)scientific contributions to the world. I&#8217;d like to make them public over the next several blog posts.
1. Dirty Dish Dilemma (for now, linking to a radio interview I gave on this topic)
2. True Mirroring
3. Do-Nothing lucid dreaming and R.E.L.
4. Spontaneous yoga
4. Dynamically Distributed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.steinbock.org/blog/2009/11/02/things-i-left-unsaid/</link>
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		<title>Wedding Invocation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On September 5, 2009, I officiated the marriage of two dear friends, Thomas and Sabrina. Here is the invocation I wrote that opened the ceremony.
It is a gift we give to one another,
in these unsettled times,
to gather together under an old tree in Summer,
&#8211; as we have before
and as we will again,
in different times and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.steinbock.org/blog/2009/09/08/wedding-invocation/</link>
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		<title>The road less promising</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I used to be a computer scientist. I could respectably program in more than ten languages. I pondered the theoretical limits of computation and ways to overcome or exploit them. I tinkered solutions to arcane problems in artificial intelligence.

There's a kind of Holy Grail in computer science. No one has been able to write an algorithm that can solve a particularly hard set of problems (known as NP-complete) in a reasonable amount of time. A reasonable amount of time means less than a billion years.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.steinbock.org/blog/2009/04/07/a-waste-of-computation/</link>
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		<title>Design as a metaphor for social change</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Philosopher of Science Bruno Latour argues that the word design has evolved from meaning a superficial dressing up of objects to becoming a metaphor for social change, replacing &#8220;revolution&#8221; and &#8220;modernization&#8221;.
With the advent of the Industrial Revolution, in times of great political struggle, Marx wrote of the need for social change in the form of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.steinbock.org/blog/2009/04/01/design-revolution/</link>
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		<title>What is called &#8220;design thinking?&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What is Called Design Thinking?
View more presentations from Michael Dila. (tags: methods norms)

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		<link>http://www.steinbock.org/blog/2009/02/28/what-is-called-design-thinking/</link>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s participatory democracy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From Barack Obama&#8217;s platform on the subject of technology:
We need to connect citizens with each other to engage them more fully and directly in solving the problems that face us. We must use all available technologies and methods to open up the federal government, creating a new level of transparency to change the way business [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.steinbock.org/blog/2008/11/18/obamas-participatory-democracy/</link>
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		<title>What would the &#8216;hero you&#8217; do?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Helpful in times of doubt or procrastination:
&#8220;What would the hero version of me do right now?&#8221;
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		<link>http://www.steinbock.org/blog/2008/08/13/what-would-the-hero-you-do/</link>
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		<title>Human-centered crowdsourcing? Not yet.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a recent post, I introduced Kluster, a new web startup that is trying to build a community for democratized design, i.e. crowdsourcing.
As an experiment, I recently sponsored my own design challenge on Kluster (you&#8217;ll need a Kluster account to see it). I offered $50 of my own money and challenged the Kluster community to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.steinbock.org/blog/2008/04/28/human-centered-crowdsourcing-not-yet/</link>
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		<title>Information R/evolution</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Another stirring video ethnography of the Web from Michael Wesch, anthropologist of mediated cultures and creator of The Machine is Us/ing Us.
This one looks at the material redefinition of information in the digital participatory age.

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		<link>http://www.steinbock.org/blog/2008/04/27/information-revolution/</link>
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