Thoughts going into today’s Find the Future

Many of you have been following (in one way or another) my thoughts and learnings leading up to tonight’s Find the Future at the New York Public Library. I feel the need to make a statement before it all begins, so here goes: What I think will be most interesting on a micro level is… Continue reading Thoughts going into today’s Find the Future

Game On: Hundreds Spend the Night at the Library to Play Futurist Game

Great teaser from WNYC! McGonigal, who is the author of “Reality is Broken" and an alumna of Fordham College at Lincoln Center, said that her team worked with library curators for six months to identify 100 objects, or treasures — like the Declaration of Independence and the stuffed animals that inspired A.A. Milne to write… Continue reading Game On: Hundreds Spend the Night at the Library to Play Futurist Game

Seeing all of your twitter followers in a spreadsheet….

Is kind of gross….it’s like seeing an awesome list of people you sort of want to be friends with (or are! right?!) but not really and probably won’t be. Regardless, the data is fun to play with. And to learn that I have real followers all over the world, from Alaska to Auckland to Lima… Continue reading Seeing all of your twitter followers in a spreadsheet….

General Mills is winning with Sustainability Goalsetting

I’m impressed by GM’s bold-but-doable statement of goals and strong display of leadership in corporate social responsibility. And, by this invention: ‘Scoop shower’ saves water The ‘scoop shower’ is a new Häagen-Dazs innovation that gets ice cream scoops clean while conserving water. A U.S.-European employee team worked on the scoop shower, which uses extreme water… Continue reading General Mills is winning with Sustainability Goalsetting