Archive of Thinking Posts

Apr 22, 2025 Don't Buy Innovation, Buy Things. Some Suggestions.
Apr 22, 2025 Distributing and Democratizing Innovation
Mar 16, 2025 Community, Leadership and Power
Nov 3, 2024 A Pattern Language for Pattern Languages
Aug 20, 2024 Blog All Dog-eared Pages: Christopher Frayling on Craftsmanship towards a new Bauhaus
Aug 18, 2024 Blog All Dog-eared Pages: The Care Manifesto by The Care Collective
Aug 11, 2023 Notes From a Proto-LifeHouse
Jan 3, 2023 What If Co-operatives Aren't the Answer?
Jun 27, 2021 Blog All Dog-eared Pages: Playing the Bullshit Game: How Empty and Misleading Communication Takes Over Organizations by AndrÃ© Spicer
Jul 11, 2020 Small Groups and the DoES Liverpool Salon
Jun 22, 2020 Most of Us Want a More Progressive Country, Why Can't We Have It?
Jan 14, 2020 Blog All Dog-eared Pages: The Power Broker by Robert A. Caro
Jan 9, 2020 Tactical Civics? Municipal Making?
Jul 29, 2019 Blog All Dog-eared Pages: Do/Purpose by David Hieatt
Sep 16, 2018 Ignore the Innovators
Dec 10, 2017 We Should Stop Using AI As a Way to Duck Responsibility
Apr 13, 2017 Commoning Before Trademarks
Jan 3, 2017 Is the "Maker Movement" a Movement?
Dec 20, 2016 The Left Needs to Get Over Its Fear of Technology
Jan 10, 2016 The City as Change Vector
Jun 26, 2015 Threads of Diversity
Feb 11, 2015 Spreading the DoES Liverpool Ethos
Jan 19, 2015 Blog All Dog-eared Pages: The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Sep 7, 2014 Laptops and Looms II: The Californian Ideology
Sep 2, 2014 Laptops and Looms II: The Return to Cromford
May 7, 2014 Growing a Culture
Feb 22, 2014 Dislocated and in Fear of Being Co-opted
Jan 16, 2014 Words Are Important
Dec 22, 2013 What's Going On?
Nov 10, 2013 Call Centres, the New Factories Making Annoyed People
Oct 21, 2013 Post-Snowden Linking
Oct 6, 2013 Thoughts on the High Line
Jul 30, 2013 Less Command and Control, More Network Thinking
May 19, 2013 Debating Democracy
Apr 30, 2013 How (Not) to Get Picked
Apr 17, 2013 Making the Civil Service More Technical
Mar 30, 2013 Towards a More Equal Tech Culture
Dec 10, 2012 Planning Indie Retail?
Aug 9, 2012 The Heart of Darkness and Dark Matter
Jul 25, 2012 Signing Your Work
Jul 9, 2012 Openness and Creativity in Cities
Jun 25, 2012 Data Commons Licensing?
May 8, 2012 How to Be More Like Berlin?
Apr 3, 2012 Thoughts on Craft and Manufacturing
Dec 28, 2011 Jonathan Meades on Regeneration
Dec 26, 2011 Blog All Dog-Eared Pages: Shaping Things by Bruce Sterling
Nov 22, 2011 Barcamp Liverpool 2011: What is the Point of Liverpool?
Oct 1, 2011 Laptops and Looms: A Modern History Lesson
Sep 29, 2011 People, Canals and Regeneration
Aug 23, 2011 Laptops and Looms. Not Your Typical Conference
Aug 12, 2011 Food for Thought
Aug 2, 2011 Thinking Out Loud
Jun 13, 2011 Four Things I'm Thinking About
May 8, 2011 Blog All Dog-eared Pages: Where Have All the Intellectuals Gone?
Apr 13, 2011 Can the Working Class Save the Middle Class?
Jan 21, 2011 Rainy, Grey-sky Thinking
Dec 27, 2010 Blog All Dog-eared Pages: The Craftsman
Nov 14, 2010 Thoughts on Conferences
Jul 20, 2010 Unmaking Urban Mistakes
Nov 18, 2009 What's With the Obsession About Big?
Aug 6, 2009 Britain's POST?
Jul 5, 2009 Liverpool Architecture Society's Integrated City Project
Dec 10, 2008 BarCamp Liverpool: Don't Just Change the World... Improve It!
Nov 15, 2008 The Most Important Topics to Discuss or Disseminate?
Oct 23, 2008 Do Computer Networks Hinder, Rather Than Help, World Changing Movements?
Oct 14, 2008 Money As Debt
May 6, 2008 More Thinking By Doing Needed
Apr 24, 2008 A Taste of TED on DVD
Apr 6, 2008 Which Vision Thing?
Mar 11, 2008 The North / South Divide?
Aug 29, 2007 Changing the World is Not Enough
Jun 28, 2006 How Low Can You Go?
Jun 21, 2006 The National Grid of The Future?
Jun 20, 2006 The Rise of Awareness
Jun 20, 2006 Climate Chaos
Feb 5, 2006 Defending Against The Clones
Dec 22, 2005 Give Me A Future I Can Believe In
Dec 19, 2005 I Want To Praise You Like I Should
Dec 1, 2005 Open Rights Group Inaugural Event
Oct 24, 2005 Give Peace A Chance
Feb 14, 2005 Now This Could Be Handy
Jan 10, 2005 The Paradox Of Progress
Nov 26, 2004 Kill Your Inner Demon
Nov 1, 2004 Can The Natural Enterprise Save The World?
Jul 13, 2004 The Death Of The Best