Colloquium at Stanford
The Unfinished Revolution


Memorandum

Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 05:59:23 -0800

From:   Bernie DeKoven
bernie@dekoven.com
Reply-To: unrev-II@onelist.com

To:     unrev-II@onelist.com

Subject:  
Re:   [unrev-II] Big Projects Usually Fail

from
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Karpinski
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000
-0800 (PST)...

Therefor, I suggest that we seek as many useful sub-projects with tiny costs and significant payoffs, that fit into the chosen general plan, as we can. We should pay special attention to short term, low cost efforts. I will have a few to suggest, such as the Idea Farm, which I claim can be implemented in some useful form within a week by a single person or a team of two or three.

Bernie responds:

Yes. Let's make this our plan. Let's focus on Internet-based ventures, like the Idea Farm, as you suggest. Let's make them Internet-based because I believe what we hope to create are B and C communities, and I believe that we believe that the Internet right now is the best greenhouse for such ventures.

Perhaps in parallel we should also create a general plan. Maybe that'd be the work of the Idea Farm.

Sincerely,



Bernie DeKoven
bernie@dekoven.com