{"id":27264,"date":"2016-08-30T13:25:16","date_gmt":"2016-08-30T20:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=27264"},"modified":"2016-08-30T13:25:16","modified_gmt":"2016-08-30T20:25:16","slug":"jerry-michalski-founder-of-rex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/jerry-michalski-founder-of-rex\/","title":{"rendered":"Jerry Michalski, Founder of REX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our guest this week is Jerry Michalski, who spent a dozen years as a tech-industry analyst during the dot-com era, then founded a think tank called <a href=\"http:\/\/therexpedition.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">REX<\/a> in 2010 after figuring out that consumer capitalism is giving way to something more trustworthy and connected. Something he calls the \u201cRelationship Economy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/280628586&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/cool-tools-show-and-tell\/id605920446?mt=2\">Subscribe to the Cool Tools Show on iTunes<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/feedpress.me\/cooltoolsshow\">RSS<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1GamFcRSW4Zdn6U3OX6NOp98aOAdqvQkblHz2yTQi8M0\/edit?usp=sharing\">Transcript<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/tracking.feedpress.it\/link\/7810\/4054765\/276699446-cool-tools-60-star-simpson.mp3\">Download MP3<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/tag\/cool-tools-show\/\">See all the Cool Tools Show posts on a single page<\/a><br \/>\n<br clear=all><\/p>\n<p>Show notes:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-27265\" src=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2016\/08\/thebrain.png\" alt=\"thebrain\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2016\/08\/thebrain.png 300w, https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2016\/08\/thebrain-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebrain.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">TheBrain<\/a>, mind-mapping tool<br \/>\n&#8220;You can add things to your Brain by dragging and dropping from your browser. \u2026 One of the things that distinguishes it from all the other mind mapping, memory mapping, concept mapping, visual, sort of search tools, is that you can only connect things through these 3 little circles on every node, and every node is called a, &#8220;Thought,&#8221; and the circles are called, &#8220;Gates.\u201d They go up, down and left, which means when you add something, you have to decide \u201cIs this a parent, a child or some kind of either a sibling or an opposite of the current thought I&#8217;m connecting it to.&#8221; That little exercise turns out to be a phenomenal organizing feature of this tool that nobody else has done because all the other tools either put things in a big circle around whatever you&#8217;re looking at or they have this rubber band effect, or kind of a hyperlink effect where you&#8217;re scrolling through a giant ball of twine, none of which, to my mind are easy for the human eye and brain to peruse and make sense of, and yet in TheBrain that seems to give it enough structure that I have no trouble, even when the screen is really, really full.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br clear=all><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-27266\" src=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2016\/08\/Screen-Shot-2016-08-30-at-12.45.20-PM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-08-30 at 12.45.20 PM\" width=\"500\" height=\"292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2016\/08\/Screen-Shot-2016-08-30-at-12.45.20-PM.jpg 964w, https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2016\/08\/Screen-Shot-2016-08-30-at-12.45.20-PM-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jerrysbrain.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jerry\u2019s Brain<\/a><br \/>\n&#8220;The file we&#8217;ll talk about a bit today, is the file that I started 18 years and 6 months ago. I&#8217;ve been filling one mind map for that long. \u2026 For anybody who&#8217;s gone to jerrysbrain.com and is looking around \u2026 [the] <a href=\"https:\/\/webbrain.com\/brain\/brain\/3D80058C-14D8-5361-0B61-A061F89BAF87\/thought\/16065#-7721\" target=\"_blank\">map of the tech industry<\/a> seems like the most natural place to start because when this company came by me, I was a tech industry analyst, and the thing I needed to do was track all these startups, and who had funded whom, and what, and where.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br clear=all><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2016\/08\/Screen-Shot-2016-08-30-at-12.45.50-PM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-27267\" src=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2016\/08\/Screen-Shot-2016-08-30-at-12.45.50-PM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-08-30 at 12.45.50 PM\" width=\"500\" height=\"292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2016\/08\/Screen-Shot-2016-08-30-at-12.45.50-PM.jpg 964w, https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2016\/08\/Screen-Shot-2016-08-30-at-12.45.50-PM-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/webbrain.com\/brain\/brain\/3D80058C-14D8-5361-0B61-A061F89BAF87\/thought\/16065#-967\" target=\"_blank\">Belief Snapshot<\/a><br \/>\n&#8220;I wish everybody published some version of their beliefs. I call it a &#8216;Belief snapshot.&#8217; This happens to be my version of a belief snapshot, because I happen to use TheBrain, and I don&#8217;t think everybody on earth should be using TheBrain, but I wish people expressed why they think what they think \u2026 I think people are born good, and we underestimate that. I connect that to all sorts of other things, and there&#8217;s dozens of things under my beliefs \u2026. if we all did that \u2026 we could then sit down and have a reasonable conversation about any topic you want, and we could trace it back to some of our beliefs, and argue about them as good civilized humans, and I might shift my beliefs.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br clear=all><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-27268\" src=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2016\/08\/Screen-Shot-2016-08-30-at-12.46.26-PM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-08-30 at 12.46.26 PM\" width=\"500\" height=\"292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2016\/08\/Screen-Shot-2016-08-30-at-12.46.26-PM.jpg 967w, https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2016\/08\/Screen-Shot-2016-08-30-at-12.46.26-PM-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/webbrain.com\/brain\/brain\/3D80058C-14D8-5361-0B61-A061F89BAF87\/thought\/16065#-104706\" target=\"_blank\">Lessons from My Brain<\/a><br \/>\n&#8220;I&#8217;ve learned that we&#8217;re an amnesiac civilization. I&#8217;ve learned that because we don&#8217;t have tools like this that help us create shared meaning, shared context, we&#8217;re really easy to manipulate and spin. We don&#8217;t have a shared memory that the closest thing we have to it is Wikipedia. There aren&#8217;t that many people contributing to Wikipedia. It&#8217;s clearly a crowd sourced phenomenon, and I love it, and I use it 10 times, 20 times a day, but it&#8217;s not a distributed, shared memory, and nor is my Brain, obviously, because it&#8217;s missing the collaborative aspect to it, but our civilization is worse off, because we can&#8217;t do what I&#8217;ve had the pleasure and luck of doing for 18 years, we can&#8217;t do that together, as a society.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br clear=all><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cool Tools Show 061: Jerry Michalski<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13684,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1559],"tags":[1555,1472],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27264"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13684"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27264"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27345,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27264\/revisions\/27345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}