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John Geraci lives in NYC where he is Head of New York Operations for faberNovel. He co-founded Outside.in, started DIYcity, and likes innovation, disruption and starting new things. For more about him, visit johngeraci.com.
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Category Archives: Innovation
My post on Valve in Business Insider
Here is a guest post I wrote on Business Insider, about the gaming company Valve and their unusual and awesome company culture. I hope to have the opportunity to start a company like this at some point. A Company With … Continue reading
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Note To TED, Local Projects and DIYcity: Nobody Owns the Web (Not Even You)
Last week TED announced their much-anticipated “City 2.0” project, the recipient of the 2012 TED Prize. City 2.0, The Atlantic states, is “a kind of global Wikipedia connecting citizens, political leaders, urban experts, companies, and organizations, with the goal of … Continue reading
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Local CO2 Mapping Takes Off (With Your Help!)
Last week (or was it the week before?) I blogged about what I see as a big problem with the issue of global warming: contextualizing it as something “global” instead of local. When you frame something as global, it becomes … Continue reading
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Why “Smart Cities” Wont Stop Global Warming – And May Even Accelerate It
Those of us who like to think about city-scale innovation also like to think that it is somehow going to lead us away from our carbon-abusing ways towards a new world of sustainability. Well I’ve got some bad news: it’s … Continue reading
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Innovating On The Web These Days Is Like Creating a Better Bumper For A Ford Explorer
I wanted to pull this out of my previous post and make it its own post: Increasingly, innovating on the web is like creating a better bumper for a Ford Explorer. And sure, Ford Explorers need better bumpers (they always … Continue reading
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Let’s Face It, The Web Just Isn’t Very Disruptive Anymore
We’ve all grown up in a time when to do anything on the web is to be disruptive. Writing? On the web? Disruptive. Finding a date? On the web? Disruptive. It’s been going on for so long that we sort … Continue reading
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Open Is Dead.
Open is dead. That’s the conclusion I came to at a recent meeting of people gathered to talk about how to advance the Open Data agenda. Open isn’t dead as a movement, it’s dead as a term that can be … Continue reading
Posted in Cities, Innovation
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Are Banks Setting Themselves Up To Be Disrupted?
Banks these days seem to be going wild with new fees for everything. More and more, you can’t do anything without incurring a fee. Walk into a bank? Get a fee. Request an old statement? Get a fee. Close your … Continue reading
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johngeraci.com: Helping To Crystallize Change In a City Near You
I post to this blog a couple of times a week. I just throw whatever I have on my mind out there, and people, a few thousand a month, come by and read it, mostly without commenting. Occasionally I wonder … Continue reading
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Picking Up Where We Left Off…
Every year come August I sort of fall off the web for a month or so. It feels great to unplug, and it allows me to update my ideas/positions on things, by letting me distance myself from the ideas I’ve … Continue reading
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