How To Break Anything

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      23 Nov 2010

      "We All Want To Be Young" - an exploration of the history of youth

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      We All Want to Be Young from box1824 on Vimeo.

      BOX1824 is "a Brazilian research company specialized in behavioral sciences and consumer trends," that I'll be paying much more attention to. The first 6 minutes of the above exploration of the history of youth are informative. The next 3 are pure metasociocultural gold. 

      [as an aside, the last line on "understanding the evolution of the world is the search that will keep us young forever" - while epically cheesy - does sort of resonate, given that I was just this weekend asked while looking busy, "Kyle, are you working on the weekend??" 

      To which the only reply I could muster was "well...understanding the world *is* my job."]

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      10 Feb 2010

      The 7 Contemporary Sins of Youth. And a question about deception

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      via slideshare.net

      A somewhat related question came to me recently:

      Is it more difficult to lie, or to tell the truth?

      This is purely a matter of opinion, by the way; this Radiolab podcast on deception might get you thinking in a couple of paradoxically opposed directions, should you be wondering why I ask such seemingly simple question.

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      Kyle Cameron Studstill
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  • How To Break Anything

    Hello friends and collaborators. I deal in innovation, working to build fantastic experiences enabled by the digital world. As part of this I track cultural change, primarily through observations guided by models and filters calibrated over years to sort out the cream.

    These pieces of thoughts here reflect concepts that are elements of those models: ecosystem thinking, long-term value, information filters, and pattern recognition.

    ("How to break anything" is an abstract notion that reflects my background in observation and analysis. Rules are meant to be broken, but only through understanding the rules - observing them with an empathetic eye - can they be broken constructively.

    So how to break anything? Observe everything.

    [You can't observe everything so how do you know what to observe? That's another project that I call Filter Theory - see the About link above.])

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