Apr 24
I hear about it all the time… Collaborate with people who share your values. Really? You know why they say this? Because it is pleasant and easy. When you are around people who share your values you can agree all the time, because you are using the same basis for your judgements. There isn’t much …
Permanent link to this article: http://thrivable.net/2013/04/friction-is-your-friend/
Mar 07
I am super excited to see Adventures in New Giving http://www.adventuresinnewgiving.com/. And perhaps a bit jealous. If I could focus the time and energy, I think Nathaniel is doing what I would do. (see his video here: http://vimeo.com/37718193 ) For years, I have lived a double life working in traditional progressive philanthropy to pay rent while …
Permanent link to this article: http://thrivable.net/2012/03/adventures-in-new-giving/
Dec 22
Each Wednesday, we post an interview with someone who is living, exploring, or championing aspects of thrivability – people at the forefront of cultural, organizational, or individual change.
Robin Chase is founder and CEO of GoLoco, an online ridesharing community. She also founded and leads Meadow Networks, a consulting firm that advises city, state, and …
Permanent link to this article: http://thrivable.net/2010/12/people-powered-innovation-interview-with-robin-chase/
Nov 17
Each Wednesday, we post an interview with someone who is living, exploring, or championing aspects of thrivability – people at the forefront of cultural, organizational, or individual change.
Lonny Grafman is an Instructor of Environmental Resources Engineering and Appropriate Technology at Humboldt State University; the co-founder and instructor in a summer abroad, full immersion, …
Permanent link to this article: http://thrivable.net/2010/11/savoring-optimism-interview-with-lonny-grafman/
Sep 02
or how Thrivability: A Collabortive Sketch happened.
People have asked: How did you get that done? So, I’ll tell you.
First and foremost, I lucked out. I worked with amazing, generous, patient, inspired, and brilliant people. 70 of them. I wish I could have included more, and yet, it is too much already.
Two of my …
Permanent link to this article: http://thrivable.net/2010/09/flash-collaboration/
Jul 23
In the face of all the catastrophe thinking and story-telling, why the optimism of thrivability?
photo credit: h.koppdelaney
This optimism is not blind idealism or the search for some dreamy utopia. A thrivable world will exist (and has existed) in a strange balance and tension where there is more health and generativity than illness and …
Permanent link to this article: http://thrivable.net/2010/07/why-the-optimism/
Jul 20
This morning I read a RT from @jhagel:
Open source trumps crowdsource – by @cdgramshttp://bit.ly/bIn1at
And an idea that has been bubbling in the back of my head came to the surface begging to be set free. Collaboration and Cooperation are complex processes. Setting up them as rivals diminishes the value each provide us. One …
Permanent link to this article: http://thrivable.net/2010/07/collaboration-mixing-board/
Apr 06
Announcement
The HUB Berkeley, Friday April 9th at noon Berkeley, CA
Brown Bag lunch with Jean Russell, curator of Thrivability: A Collaborative Sketch. Jean will present and discuss flash collaboration. She used this process to involve 70 collaborators from across the world in producing an ebook in less than 90 days. The ebook was repeatedly …
Permanent link to this article: http://thrivable.net/2010/04/flash-collaboration-discussion/
Apr 20
photo credit: steve p2008
Thrivability, at its core, is all about creating environments that are generative of adaptive diverse abundance, both in the sense of nature, and in the sense of the potential for innovation present in an organization. If people come together with a sense of purposive play, then innovation emerges from the dynamic …
Permanent link to this article: http://thrivable.net/2009/04/designing-thrivable-creation-spaces/
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