Comments on: What I learned at technology camp http://www.jackzen.com/2005/04/28/what-i-learned-at-technology-camp/ ...........................just noticing Sun, 20 Jul 2008 18:19:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Jack http://www.jackzen.com/2005/04/28/what-i-learned-at-technology-camp/#comment-67 Sat, 30 Apr 2005 16:53:51 +0000 http://www.jackzen.com/2005/04/28/what-i-learned-at-technology-camp/#comment-67 Yes Sandy, we need to remember the cooking-and-eating-together open source community who are no less tech-minded than their closed source peers. The whole issue of scarcity drives much of the difference in perspectives. If we believe there is only one rabbit in the world for lunch, we must spend as much time fighting one another as we do fighting it. Yes Sandy, we need to remember the cooking-and-eating-together open source community who are no less tech-minded than their closed source peers. The whole issue of scarcity drives much of the difference in perspectives. If we believe there is only one rabbit in the world for lunch, we must spend as much time fighting one another as we do fighting it.

]]> by: Sandy http://www.jackzen.com/2005/04/28/what-i-learned-at-technology-camp/#comment-66 Sat, 30 Apr 2005 08:15:17 +0000 http://www.jackzen.com/2005/04/28/what-i-learned-at-technology-camp/#comment-66 Well, there is the whole open source movement in software which is pretty much antithetical to eat-or-be-eaten.... I take it they were ignoring all that? I'm betting that technology = hardware at that conference. Open source seems to me to work because programmers discover that it's fun to share, and to give help to others, and to get help from others. They don't want to work alone. (Programmers, of all people -- there's a stereotype-buster, for you!) Well, there is the whole open source movement in software which is pretty much antithetical to eat-or-be-eaten…. I take it they were ignoring all that? I’m betting that technology = hardware at that conference.

Open source seems to me to work because programmers discover that it’s fun to share, and to give help to others, and to get help from others. They don’t want to work alone. (Programmers, of all people — there’s a stereotype-buster, for you!)

]]> by: Jack http://www.jackzen.com/2005/04/28/what-i-learned-at-technology-camp/#comment-65 Fri, 29 Apr 2005 13:41:19 +0000 http://www.jackzen.com/2005/04/28/what-i-learned-at-technology-camp/#comment-65 Nice Steve. I'm riffing off the stealing metaphor and thinking of the idea of right livelihood. It brings up a whole new set of questions about what right livelihood is in a "globalized" economy where "disruptive" innovations are positioned as the summum bonum, the highest good. Nice Steve. I’m riffing off the stealing metaphor and thinking of the idea of right livelihood. It brings up a whole new set of questions about what right livelihood is in a “globalized” economy where “disruptive” innovations are positioned as the summum bonum, the highest good.

]]> by: steveg http://www.jackzen.com/2005/04/28/what-i-learned-at-technology-camp/#comment-64 Fri, 29 Apr 2005 10:27:37 +0000 http://www.jackzen.com/2005/04/28/what-i-learned-at-technology-camp/#comment-64 Having struggled with resisting the peer pressure of this type of thinking while immersed among these "leaders" for a couple years, I realized that the take/extract-lose/forfeit mindset does not CREATE. How are those who claim to work for CREATING wealth in our region able to do that when their thought process is all about redistribution/stealing? Having struggled with resisting the peer pressure of this type of thinking while immersed among these “leaders” for a couple years, I realized that the take/extract-lose/forfeit mindset does not CREATE. How are those who claim to work for CREATING wealth in our region able to do that when their thought process is all about redistribution/stealing?

]]> by: Lois http://www.jackzen.com/2005/04/28/what-i-learned-at-technology-camp/#comment-63 Thu, 28 Apr 2005 20:50:29 +0000 http://www.jackzen.com/2005/04/28/what-i-learned-at-technology-camp/#comment-63 Jack: This is a very witty response to a not-so-funny situation. I appreciate your use of humor. It is an excellent antidote to cynicism and despair, and creates space for non-reactive reflection on ways to practice compassion and use more than just the reptilian brain stem in the marketplace. Jack: This is a very witty response to a not-so-funny situation. I appreciate your use of humor. It is an excellent antidote to cynicism and despair, and creates space for non-reactive reflection on ways to practice compassion and use more than just the reptilian brain stem in the marketplace.

]]> by: Jack http://www.jackzen.com/2005/04/28/what-i-learned-at-technology-camp/#comment-62 Thu, 28 Apr 2005 15:34:39 +0000 http://www.jackzen.com/2005/04/28/what-i-learned-at-technology-camp/#comment-62 Very well put John; so true. Thanks for the encouragement. Very well put John; so true. Thanks for the encouragement.

]]> by: John Ettorre http://www.jackzen.com/2005/04/28/what-i-learned-at-technology-camp/#comment-61 Thu, 28 Apr 2005 13:25:24 +0000 http://www.jackzen.com/2005/04/28/what-i-learned-at-technology-camp/#comment-61 The zero-sum mentality is just about the heartiest survivor of all. Belief in it seems to resist all evidence to the contrary and all our intuition that it's repulsive on its face, so utterly out of step with what we see all around us in nature and society. All the more reason for you to continue to preach your message, Jack. The zero-sum mentality is just about the heartiest survivor of all. Belief in it seems to resist all evidence to the contrary and all our intuition that it’s repulsive on its face, so utterly out of step with what we see all around us in nature and society.
All the more reason for you to continue to preach your message, Jack.

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