A few years ago I read a book called Bowling Alone by Robert Putnam. It introduced me to the term social capital.
Social capital is an abstract measure that wraps up how many people you know, the information flow in your network, how many people owe you favours, that kind of thing.
High social capital goes hand [...]
One of the trends Jack and I discuss a lot is the internet sensibility hitting the world of plastic products. What happens when stuff is conceived of not as tools, but as participants in our own creative, social, connected lives?
I was talking about this with Nat the other week and spinning up concrete examples. One [...]
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