Design, Affordances, Emergence, Appeal: An Innovator’s Primer
A lot of people talk about innovation in terms of fulfilling an unmet market need. Specifically, there’s a lot of emphasis on “solving problems.” (I’m looking at you, Dave McClure.) The theory is that...
View ArticleBaltimore Election 2011: Lessons Learned
For the many of us who are anxious to move beyond the broken status quo in Baltimore, yesterday’s primary election was disappointing and frustrating. Still, there’s a lot of valuable information to be...
View ArticleThe Opportunity Baltimore Is Missing
There’s been an explosion of interest in new “startup accelerators,” incubation, coworking, startup funding, and new-manufacturing efforts in Baltimore in the last few months; unfortunately this...
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The Real Republican Adversary? Population Density
The 2012 election demonstrated what many people could have guessed: rural states voted for Romney while densely populated states voted for Obama. Many have offered explanations — everything from the...
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2012 Election Turnout
I’ll be writing more about the correlation between population density and voting behaviors, but in the meantime check out these maps showing participation in the 2012 election. (Darker areas voted...
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Race and the Election
I wrote recently about population density and its relationship to voting behaviors. In the 2012 election, high population density correlated with votes for Obama, while low density correlated with...
View ArticleWe Need an Honest, Open, and Transparent Baltimore
For Baltimore City to grow and prosper once again, several problems must be solved: jobs, crime, and education are chief among them. But these are mere symptoms of the decades of systematic...
View ArticleStop Talking and Build Your Business
While I’m deeply involved in entrepreneurship, breathing it day in and day out, and actively follow many discussions around it, I tend to shy away from writing about it most of the time. Why? Because...
View ArticleDon’t Change the World, Select a Better One
Much has been said about entrepreneurs and their oft-stated ambition to “change the world.” Making money is nice, they say, but they really want to “put a dent in the universe,” as Steve Jobs once...
View ArticleThe Math Behind Peoplemaps
For the last few years I’ve been working on mapping out social relationships in cities with my project peoplemaps.org. I had the chance to speak about this work recently at the TED Global conference,...
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