What Is the Ultimate Driver of Innovation?

It has become more obvious that we can't cope with the challenges in the 21st century with our current coordination protocols.

One of the reasons I publish on the internet is that every piece of content is like a probe or a signal. In order to get a signal back, you need to send out a signal. You change what you see on the timeline by changing your posts, likes and comments.

The main idea is that you don't learn the shape of a space by passively observing it, you learn it by sending something in and watching what comes back (or refuses to). Someone who bothers to study culture can learn how to walk through walls :

For example, when I grew up, I was told that there was such a thing as a “job,” and these were listed on “job boards” where you could read about the “qualifications” necessary—qualifications that you got through something called “education.” This isn’t false. You can play the game this way. But it is a very superficial way of playing the game.

A slightly more precise reading is to say that the economy is made up of 8.25 billion people, all trying to solve various problems—and what “getting a job” really means is finding a person with a problem and convincing them that you can solve it for them. This can be done by looking at job boards, of course, where people who collaborate on solving problems (aka work at companies) list some of the problems they want help solving.

How do we connect people to abundant opportunities? What if we expanded what people can do?

We can learn more about answers to these questions from access analysis in public transit .

We can surround ourselves with people who are differently free :

Don't surround yourself with smarter people: what you need, Rao says, is people who are differently free, people who are free in ways that you are not, and who can therefore point out things you’re blind to, other games you could play.

Stop "fixing yourself"—swap the container. Have you chosen a social context that is made for your abilities?

The moment you stop being afraid of the word disability is when you realize that disability has nothing to do with the particular body of someone who can or can't do certain things. Disability has to do with how much society has decided to include people who have different abilities, different bodies, different cognitive capacities and whatever. And I think when you realize that disability is not about your kid or yourself if you're disabled, it's about how much does society want to include you in a conversation, how much do they want to give you the ability to participate, then you can talk about disability with no problem because you're actually talking about society. ~ Caterina Scorsone, Work in Progress

The history behind the curb cut

Here is an excerpt from Wikipedia:

Kalamazoo, Michigan installed curb cuts in the 1940s as a pilot project introduced by veteran and lawyer Jack H. Fischer to aid employment of veterans with disabilities. A major project in Berkeley, California led by the grassroots Center for Independent Living led to curb cuts up and down Telegraph and Shattuck Avenues creating an extensive path of travel. Following this, the value of curb cuts was promoted more strongly and their installation was often made on a voluntary basis by municipal authorities and developers.

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