October 22, 2007

ZenMatt talks about Agalmics and in doing so gives me some more tools in my 10 year campaign to sort Birmingham out.

Levin points out that the idea of a gift culture is not new, or even particularly radical. It is just humans learning to co-operate for everyone’s advantage, a concept we would conventionally refer to as civilisation.

Here’s the Robert Levin article he’s talking about. It’s from 1999 but a fair bit of the thinking from back then is still valid (cf. Cluetrain)

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