Clay Shirky on Cognitive Surplus, or Kill Your TV
March 28, 2010 in Business Development, Productivity
This video is two years old, but still on the cutting edge in terms of the subject matter. Clay Shirky discusses the idea of a surplus of thinking power and what it might mean for the future of media:
Watch for these phrases:
- the architecture of participation
- cognitive surplus + the desire to participate
- media is a triathlon: consume, produce, share
- a screen that ships without a mouse ships broken
I believe that this is really important. How can you carve out an hour or two a week to do something remarkable?
Turn off your TV (or at least the crap, maybe try Discovery or History.
Maybe read a book.
Then do something with the new information that has inspired you. Tell me what it is that has inspired you, perhaps we can help each other.
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