{"id":6995,"date":"2017-03-02T00:05:16","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T16:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=6995"},"modified":"2017-03-02T00:05:16","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T16:05:16","slug":"principles-for-an-age-of-acceleration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2017\/03\/02\/principles-for-an-age-of-acceleration\/","title":{"rendered":"Principles for an Age of Acceleration"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Ito&#8217;s ideas are not specific to our moment in history, but adaptive responses to a world with certain characteristics:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>1. Asymmetry In our era, effects are no longer proportional to the size of their source. The biggest change-makers of the future are the small players: \u201cstart-ups and rogues, breakaways and indie labs.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>2. Complexity The level of complexity is shaped by four inputs, all of which are extraordinarily high in today\u2019s world: heterogeneity, interconnection, interdependency and adaptation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #404040;\"><strong>3. Uncertainty<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201c<em>Not knowing is okay. In fact, we\u2019ve entered an age where the admission of ignorance offers strategic advantages over expending resources\u2013subcommittees and think tanks and sales forecasts\u2014toward the increasingly futile goal of forecasting future events<\/em>.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #404040;\">Source: <\/span><em style=\"color: #404040;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.farnamstreetblog.com\/2017\/01\/principles-age-acceleration\/\">Principles for an Age of Acceleration<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ito&#8217;s ideas are not specific to our moment in history, but adaptive responses to a world with certain characteristics: 1. Asymmetry In our era, effects are no longer proportional to the size of their source. The biggest change-makers of the future are the small players: \u201cstart-ups and rogues, breakaways and indie labs.\u201d 2. Complexity The &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2017\/03\/02\/principles-for-an-age-of-acceleration\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Principles for an Age of Acceleration&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}