Berkonomics

AUGUST 8, 2013

'At the MIT Center of Collective Intelligence, professors and graduate students are wrestling with an important opportunity – and gaining ground. With new collaborative tools available for use in the cloud, people are no longer isolated in their creative endeavors. Some label this “crowdsourcing,” a term used to describe one form of this new empowerment.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 8, 2013

'I offer up a lot of intros to people, and when you add them all up, they can take a lot of time. That''s why I try and push off as much of the work to the person being introduced by asking for a clean, forwardable email. What is that? Well, first, it starts with the person being introduced hitting Compose, not Reply. We don''t want the history of how the guy I''m introducing you to is an a **e sometimes finding it''s way into his inbox.

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Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 4, 2013

I never thought learning how to write better might help me understand product design but it has. Great literature and well designed products share one defining attribute: they create a telepathic connection between the creator and the consumer. Before you chuckle and write me off as a palm reading gypsy, hear me out. The idea isn’t mine, but Stephen King’s.

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Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 6, 2013

Control4’s IPO last week and Nest’s massive success mark the beginning of mainstream, useful connected devices. In the decade to come, the most successful will be united by one common characteristic. They will anticipate our needs and make us lazier. Living is hard work. So many things to remember, like buying milk on the way home tonight. Plenty of software has been written to help us manage our daily torrent of to dos.

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