The Extraordinary Everyday Lives Show #028 - JP Rangaswami
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On this show we have a special guest, JP Rangaswami from Confused of Calcutta blog. JP and Dave have been chatting via the blogs for a year and JP graciously agreed to come on the show and have a chat.
JP Rangaswami
http://confusedofcalcutta.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JP_Rangaswami
JP is Chief Information Officer of Global Services for BT Group.
What we talk about:
- Blogging and diversification of ideas
Disenfranchisement
Finding pragmatic ways around problems
Building disenfranchised silos
Moving from the core to the edge
People are heterogeneous
Relationships are not embeded in what we do but who we are
Swimming upstream
Change comes from individuals moving away from the herd
Ideas have to be free
Remaining connected when isolated or immobile
Christopher Alexander and Jane Jacobs
Communities of integration rather than communities of isolation
Cross fertilisation takes place because of our differences
Economics of abundance and artificial scarcities
Triangle
- abundance rather than scarcity
- heterogeneous around the edge rather than homogeneous
- creative around the edge requires an avoidance of past solutions
Podcasting and time shifting
Are we as society “small people loosley joined”?
Power of weak interactions (Gladwell)
Relationship is voluntary not forced - has value because it is free
While immobile, Mike makes a video song of pain, Dave writes Haiku
-after interview-
Swimming backwards up the long tail
UPDATE: Images - JP Triangle and LongTail Salmon
June 15th, 2007 at 7:37 am
Most excellent. Downloading the podcast as I write, but looking forward to hearing it. I’m an avid and dedicated reader of “Confused of Calcutta”. Just amazed that you beat Cam to the interview. JP Rangaswami would make a wonderful addition to the TPN stable of regulars. A most erudite gentleman. Thanks for the opportunity to listen to him.
June 15th, 2007 at 8:55 am
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June 15th, 2007 at 9:03 am
Hi Lindsey. Re: beating Cam. Hadn’t thought about that. But really this just proves what we speak about - it’s the power of relationship.
Relationship -> Conversation -> Transaction.
I already had a relationship over time with JP through conversations on our blogs. Was just a natural extending of the relationship by deepening the conversation.
Thanks for listening.
Dave
June 18th, 2007 at 10:01 pm
Really great that you guys have finally hooked up, and quite a priviledge to be part of it.
The world is a really small place these days!
Pete
June 20th, 2007 at 8:42 pm
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March 4th, 2008 at 12:29 pm
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July 20th, 2008 at 10:12 pm
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July 31st, 2008 at 11:17 pm
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