This is Lee 's Typepad Profile.
Join Typepad and start following Lee 's activity
Lee
Born in Mexico, raised in Miami, educated in Massachusetts, mostly. New York is home.
Recent Activity
very useful. already stolen for a deck. thanks.
i think that there's probably other types of change. sometimes technology just makes things...different.
eg, the aztecs lack of use of the wheel for constructive purpose created a society predicated on slave labor. perhaps if they'd had a technology to help construction, it would have been different.
i think it's also interesting to think about how technology doesn't change cultural practice. neal stephenson's books are chock full of examples of culture both fundamentally changed--and not--by technology.
anyway, thanks.
How Technology Changes Cultural Practices
Something that Faris tweeted the other day piqued my interest. In response to an observation that technology doesn’t change human nature, he noted that it does however “change cultural practice”. It’s a brilliant piece of insight. Though I wasn’t sure at first what it meant. Or indeed if it wa...
Lee is now following The Typepad Team
Mar 15, 2010
#2 is closest for me as well because it makes the book feel like what i hope it will be: a guidebook and working document to help me (and my clients) operate as CCOs.
but that said, if that's what it's meant to communicate, it's a bit of a half step.
but not a bad one.
Chief Culture Officer: vote on a cover, please!
Could you help me choose a cover for Chief Culture Officer? Cover 1 Cover 2: Cover 3: Thanks for your help. Please feel free to live comments and suggestions.
corina, thanks. i'll take a look. it's not a presentation, i'm part of a panel w/ a few other people, but admission is free. just show up! i'd love to see you...
eliza, as for your comment, i'll have you know i've used far more derogatory terms to describe people like us w/ hyphenate identities, so i'm sure i can work in 'mutt'
I'm on a panel about 'Multicultural Millenials' and...
...and I figured I would try to get your help. The nice folks at the NY Latino International Film Festival have been kind enough to invite me to speak on a panel next week. The topic is 'Multicultural Millenials' or as they've put it in the description: Bilingual, digitally fluent, “Multicultur...
i see your lost.eu/5f8e3 and raise you www.lost.eu/7953a
Are you Lost?
My mate Rachel found Lost and sent it my way. Lost.eu wants to sign up 7 million players to become the "largest online game ever" and it all started with a URL left on a napkin in a cafe in Oxford. It works like a kind of social pyramid scheme - you find an invite and then join the game. Once...
Subscribe to Lee ’s Recent Activity