This is It’s Just a Model, the podcast that travels the interstitium, past the trends and the outrage, straight to the meaning and beauty of tech, design, behavior and innovation. 

Your hosts are Ron Kersic, reversed historian and tech maven and freelance time traveler Peet Sneekes.

In this podcast we’ll be exposing hidden connections, lay bare  possible futures and discuss the unimaginable.  

Oh and If you experience value from this podcast, like information, entertainment, like a good old disagreement, then you can return said value through your time, talent, and treasure. See our website and the show notes for more details.

CHAPTERS

Timecodes

• 0:00 - Intro
• 1:04 - Ron's news letters vs podcasts
• 2:20 - Pace Layers, or pace Layering
• 3:19 - Ron's book: How Buildings Work
• 10:35 - Peet talks about Smart Cities and how pace layering fits into that view
• 18:00 - Events, Culture and Paradigm shifts
• 22:45 - A fail safe to paradigm shifts
• 24:00 - There is no blood brain barrier in digital, so things tend to escalate quite quickly
• 28:00 - An example of 'Sheering layers' with our social media
• 30:00 - Measure of appreciation
• 34:00 - Increasing luck: do all kinds of things
• 36:30 - Maximize success by learning
• 42:30 - Being aware of your own ecosystem - Subscribe vs Participation
• 44:25 - Predictions on legislation
• 45:15 - Creative Agencies, Government and Procurement
• 49:30 - Sheering layers, Jony Ive (Annequote)

LINKS

• Link that Vasilis shared with us: https://adactio.medium.com/pace-layers-and-design-principles-dcdf2b26c059
• Inspired look at Pace Layering by Stewart Brand: https://jods.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/issue3-brand/release/2
• The Long Now Foundation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Now_Foundation
• Ron's book tip: "How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_Buildings_Learn
• Thomas Kuhn: Paradigm Shifts: https://www.simplypsychology.org/kuhn-paradigm.html
• The article by Byrne Hobart in the Diff: https://www.thediff.co/archive/svb-in-retrospect/amp/
• Victor Knaap's article on procurement in government (Dutch):

ABOUT US

• It's Just A Model podcast: https://itsjustamodel.com
• Ron Kersic - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ronkersic// ronkersic
• Peet Sneekes - https://peetsneekes.com

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