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Ignite no. 1

Adam Good

Object-Oriented Thought: Principle. Practice. Prophecy.

Thoughts are objects. This simple statement has profound implications for how we think and create. For when we treat thoughts as objects, they become tangible, identifiable, divisible, adaptable, re-usable, and, shareable. They become like the modular code that makes object-oriented programming so powerful, or like the snippets of beat, melody, and hook that form the backbone of mash-ups. The concept of object-orientation has already revolutionized fields as diverse as software design and music. It's time for a similar revolution in the fields and practices of thought itself.

My talk will outline: what object-oriented thought is (the PRINCIPLE), how it can be applied (the PRACTICE), and where it may take us as a culture (the PROPHECY).

About Adam Good:

Adam Good is a writer and performance researcher from Washington, DC. He explores the concept of object-oriented thought (and related concerns) through avant-garde poetic techniques, improv performance, and diagramming, with in-roads to application design, cognitive theory, and knowledge management. He presents his findings at TheRealAdamGood.com. He thinks that post-it notes are the greatest advance in knowledge technology since the printing press. He tweets his thoughts on thought via When not thinking about thought, he thinks about creative strategy at Threespot Media.