Push Monday Afternoon....
First up a session on “Lessons from Deviants” …first speaker is the former President of Estonia, Mart Laar
Wonder if he knows Ross Mayfield, or the guys from Skype!
He has taken us through the history of Estonia and all the various countries and tribes that have over run Estonia.
Picture of the human chain, 50th anniversary of the Molotov/Von Ribentroff treaty. 50 years of slavery?
The model of success…
Monetary Reform
Open economy
The rule of law
Tax revolution-flat rate proportional income tax. Huge success in Estonia…being used in Russia, and probably one of the free market reforms that is working.
Lesson, you must have courage to do these kinds of things.
Great slide, mouse with football helmet on, eyeing cheese in a mouse trap.
Estonian IT-Miracle
Great line…forget paper, save trees and you can have time to walk in the actual forest.
Thesis…There is nothing to learn from deviants..
20 cities with more than 500k inhabitants. Nation of cities…
Interesting discussion on Drugs…as business and beneficiary to the community.
Soccer team of Cali, had best Latin players, drug money bought the players.
Comparing the evolution of conditions of Medellin and Cali.
Columbia oldest democracy in LA…
Guerilla now participate in all aspects of the drug business.
“They forgot their idealistic goals and now become another crime mob.
Terrorism is a weapon.
Excellent speech….very logical and thoughtful.
We are all victims of terror when we travel through an airport.
Terrorists have all the world afraid, which means they win!
Families no longer going to pay!
Brilliant talk!
Outside-In
Agenda
A Rogue's Gallery
Christopher Alexander…The Timeless Way of Building, People can design…
The Nature of Order…
Pattern Languages….room to feel warm, should have natural light from at least two sides.
Alice Miller
Drama of the Gifted Child.
Abuse is epidemic…and we don’t believe the abused.
John Taylor Gatto
N.Y. City…Compulsory education isn’t necessary…
Break all the rules, hold kids to high standards.
What these ideas have in common…
Start with position of trust
Without being naive….
Behavioral economics…
Why smart people make bad economic decisions….book, get title from Jerry.
Where it’s taken me
The word consumer
Amnesia
Barriers, scarcity —-abundance.
Decentralization
Congruence….
“Any business that doesn’t have an unfair competitive advantage is a capital repellent”…Roxanne Googin?
Not that many venture opportunities…
Three kinds…
Open tools
Open content
Open process
Starts with Trust…
Finds Value elsewhere
Connect
Releases human energy
Just noticed that Ethan Zuckerman is doing a much better job of blogging this….
I am a big fan of Jerry’s, great guy, great friend! I need to tell Jerry that George Fox University is using ActiveWords!
James Weiss….performance artist…
Nice post buzz, but I'm confused by this statement:
"...probably one of the free market reforms that is working."
Virtually *all* of their reforms have been oriented around fostering a free market and minimizing government interference, something that has created tremendous value everywhere it has been tried. Do you have in mind any (alleged) free market reforms that are *not* working?
Posted by: Tom O'Neill | July 11, 2005 at 08:57 AM