Matthew Reinbold's Blog (6)

For context see Stephano's post on agents loosing their spark and Wintermute's take regarding the panamerica event. Continue

The mobile dings gently. I groan but don't bother to pick it up. There's no one on the other end. It's 6am and the solar panel complaining; it's rearing to get cracking at another day of work but its covered in snow. If it detects anything less than 70% efficiency I don't hear the end of it. Have you ever tried negotiating with a solar panel? Doesn't go over well. Concepts like "snooze" and "another 10 minutes" aren't in its API.



I pull on… Continue

It's dinner time, although my body feels more like it should be getting ready for bed. The wh*** family is a bit jet lagged but happy to be back stateside for the first time in awhile. Being a digital nomads of the 1st order still means dealing with the body's traditional expectations of a geographically rooted life.



By now the guerrilla gardening and food punk movements in the US have gone from… Continue

The facet of social innovation that stuck a chord with me is "Do the hard work needed to find a simple solution." While I believe the author intended this to mean avoid complex solutions (which are often times brittle and expensive) I interpret it slightly differently: simple solutions come from simple problems. The challenge is then to take a seemingly impossible problem and turn it into a series of simple… Continue

Traditional automotive production is a classic example of problematic industrialization: it requires huge scale, is resource intensive, and (as we saw with the automotive bailouts) risks the well-being of entire communities when economies slow down. Cities like Mishawaka, Indiana (which made the Hummer) and Pontiac, Michigan (um, Pontiac) are left scrambling to fill jobs as the corporate parent changes global priorities [… Continue

In 2020, after years of coordinated work to make it happen, my family and I will be location independent. Rather than enjoying the benefits of a single culture and hoping that TV/Internet/books fill in the rest, my kids will be able to take part in a variety of experiences first hand. Meanwhile I will continue building networks, best leveraging human capital every being has through code, regardless of location.



In ten years my tribe, a loosely affiliated group organized around shared… Continue