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Honeybees and Investors
- marcamillion 15y agoKinda sounds like Biz is trying to sound intelligent in this post. I know nothing of the guy, except that he was involved in the early days of Twitter (whether or not he 'really' was on the founding team is apparently up for debate). But his writing here, has kinda jarred me. Not sure why.
- mathattack 15y agoUsing nature as a model for the internet, the economy, or other large systems is not new. Much of the science and (more importantly?) mathematics of explaining both is similar. Kevin Kelly (of Wired fame) is a great explainer of these ideas. He has lot of interesting writing on his website. http://www.kk.org/ http://www.kk.org/ I think Biz Stone is one of the most advanced thinkers of social media. I hope he keeps writing about this.
- Mz 15y agoNot what I expected. I'm pleasantly surprised. I was all prepared to act like a jerk, roll my eyes, and remark on how this is totally not new as honeybees have been proposed as basically a business/trade mental model for thousands of years by various cultures (Greek for sure, but I think also Indian and Persian). Kudos for having a new spin on this comparison.