One upshot of the current global financial crisis is that people are reassessing their obsession with what’s NEW. Those who can are still purchasing the must-haves, but nice-to-haves are being subjected to a new level of scrutiny. Industries that feed on restlessness–fashion, furnishings, travel, beauty, and even technology to some extent–are hurting as consumers take another look at what they’ve got and think it’s quite enough for now.

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Those waiting for business to pick up with the inevitable turning of the tides may be in for a surprise. Forced to consider the value of their possessions, more people are coming to understand the truth in an ancient principle that may render obsolete our cultural neophilia…or at least, give it a run for its money. The principle is wabi-sabi. Continue Reading »

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A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post called “Idea Catching” about the fallacy in business and life that ideas are proprietary. If you have a good one, you can bet it’s been had by others, too. While this reality is sometimes hard to accept for businesses like advertising and consulting that traffic in ideas, it’s already changing the way social entrepreneurs, scientists, artists and others with a more collectivist mentality operate.

There is a shift happening. The old paradigm was about racing out to the patent office or the intellectual property attorney to establish domain over a fresh idea in order to reap glory and profits for oneself. The new paradigm is about strengthening and enhancing our ability to act on big ideas by uniting behind them. Mainly because we have to if we’re going to solve the enormous problems we face collectively.

Just yesterday a friend directed me to a new project launched this week by internet artist and designer, Jonathan Harris (http://number27.org), called The Sputnik Observatory: ( http://sptnk.org). Continue Reading »