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Bringing a Networked Perspective to Water --- and musings that matter.
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Here you will find: - Insights on the Emerging Market for Water Intelligence. - Experienced based insights for humble entrepreneurs. Thoughts expressed here are based on my experience. My opinions only.
Kim Patrick Kobza
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Author Archives: Kim Patrick
“Social” – Our “Hiccups” Moment.
If you have a young child, you have undoubtedly heard of the movie series based on “Toothless” the Dragon[i]. The series hero is Hiccups – an expert in dragon slaying, who decides that he would rather befriend – than capture … Continue reading
Posted in The Social Net
Tagged Social communication
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Please! Call it Something Else! – The Quantified Self (Not)
It is time to bury the “the Quantified Self”. I get the need to establish a buzz category for those who thrive on buzz – venture capitalists, marketeers, and social pop consultants. And I also get the impulse to assign a … Continue reading
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Tagged complexity, Devices, digital disruption, Fitness, networked individualism, personal benefit, Personalized Healthcare, Self Quantification, The Quantified Self
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Personal Healthcare and the Empowered Self
There is something big going on in personalized healthcare. This emerging market illustrates how future networks are changing our lives and the art of the possible. Here is my personal experience. In 2008-2010 I had a ton of stress in … Continue reading
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Tagged Devices, Fitness, Personalized Healthcare, Self Quantification
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Digital Disruption: Unleashing the Next Wave of Innovation
Digital Disruption: Unleashing the Next Wave of Innovation by James McQuivey looks into the future and tells it like it is – the rate of change is accelerating, unstoppable, and is disrupting virtually every institution and business process. DD is … Continue reading
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Tagged business models, digital disruption, Our Networked Future, Reviews
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Automate This: How Algorithms Came To Rule Our World
The bottom line for Christopher Steiner’s book – Automate This: How Algorithms Came To Rule Our World (2012) is that it is an excellent read. Steiner takes the reader through the evolution of how algorithms have come to dominate many … Continue reading
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Tagged algorithms, business models, data, design, finance, networks, Personalized Healthcare
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Content and The Butterfly
Predictability: Does the flap of a butterfly’s wings in Brazil set off a tornado in Texas? Dr. Edward Lorenz. It is often said that content defines a network – that success in a network is dependent upon the strength of content. … Continue reading
Posted in Commerce, Design, The Social Net
Tagged complex systems, complexity, content, design, exchange, network science, networks, predictability, prediction
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Attention Economics and Network Design
The personal economics of online participation. Every time that we participate in a network, whether in a destination community or a simple network service, that participation, every social interaction, carries a cost – a cost of participation. Similarly all of … Continue reading
Posted in Design, The Social Net
Tagged attention blindness, connection, people, social attention
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The World Tends to Accept You on Your Own Terms
It often strikes me that you are, or become what you think that you are. And you can not expect someone else to believe that you are capable of achieving that which you don’t believe of yourself. If you believe … Continue reading
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