Reference: Leverage Points – Places to Intervene in a System by Donella Meadows
1999 Leverage_Points Donella Meadows Tip of the Hat to Venessa Miemis! Below the Line: 12 Intervention Points in Ascending Order of Effectiveness
Review: The Open Source Everything Manifesto – Transparency, Truth & Trust
Robert David Steele 5.0 out of 5 stars End Result of Quarter Century Walk-About,June 5, 2012 Updated 27 June: Why on earth is this book in top 100 for Espionage? I can only speculate that because I am a former spy, trained over 7,500 intelligence professionals, and have been an arch critic of secret intelligence …
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Review: The Zen Leader – 10 Ways to Go From Barely Managing to Leading Fearlessly
Ginny Whitelaw 5.0 out of 5 stars 6 Stars, Spectacularly SImple, Foundation Book for Epoch B Collective Self-Governance,May 21, 2012 I’ve been a driven over-achiever most of my life, and only started emerging from the “because I said so” culture so characteristic of the Marine Corps and the Central Intelligence Agency, when I realized in …
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Review: NET SMART – How to Thrive Online
Howard Rheingold 5.0 out of 5 stars Author is THE Path-Finder for Assisted Thinking,May 13, 2012 I first discovered Howard Rheingold through his book Tools for Thought: The History and Future of Mind-Expanding Technology. This led to my inviting him and with him, John Perry Barlow, to a conference in 1992, where over 600 intelligence …
Review: Castro’s Secrets – The CIA and Cuba’s Intelligence Machine
Brian Latell 4.0 out of 5 stars Three for Accuracy, Five for Details, On Balance a Four,May 3, 2012 I was reviewing this book here at Amazon as I went, but lost patience with it as other priorities emerged, and deleted my review as it was incomplete. I have gone over the book again. In …
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Steven Aftergood: Secret Systems Cluttering the Electromagnetic Spectrum
SECRET SYSTEMS CLUTTER THE ELECTROMAGNETIC SPECTRUM The difficulty that the military has in allocating the efficient use of the electromagnetic spectrum for military operations is aggravated by the fact that some of those uses — involving intelligence platforms and sensors — are secret even from military planners themselves, a new Pentagon doctrinal publication notes. “Coordination …
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Yoda: Real-Time Crowd-Sourcing + Twitter Meta-RECAP
How to Perfect Real-Time Crowdsourcing The new techniques behind instant crowdsourcing makes human intelligence available on demand for the first time. One of the great goals of computer science is to embed human-like intelligence in common applications like image processing, robotic control and so on. Until recently the focus has been to develop an artificial …
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