Category Archives: Nerd Stuff

Agile Comedy, Momofuku Ko, and Making Amazing Things Happen

Written by Freyja Gallagher. Filed under Digital Culture, Innovation and Ideas, Nerd Stuff. No comments.
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A recent New Yorker piece on the actor Steve Carell (subscription required) is actually a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at how the process of creating funny movies has shifted from sequential and scripted to highly improvisational and highly iterative.  The old way — writing a movie, casting it, … Read More

Digital Culture Now

Written by Freyja Gallagher. Filed under Digital Culture, Global Problem Solving, Innovation and Ideas, Meta Zeitgeist, Nerd Stuff. No comments.
Image courtesy of Dana Mattocks.

We are digital people. We think in interfaces, systems, organized complexity, code, interaction, behavior. We dream, write, design, build, and solve – and we do it all with unprecedented efficiency and speed, using exciting tools that organize information in new ways. We inhabit a new … Read More