Likemind and the Herd

When I was having this awfully nice chat with PSFK’s Piers in NYC a couple of weeks ago, it occured to me that the rather fine idea of Likemind is a Herd one. There’s not much of structure to it (just a couple of rules), nor much of a proposition (“turn up, have coffee, and er…chat about stuff”) and the whole thing is self-organising and self-propagating.

And actually quite successful at both, it seems. By the week we met, Piers’ and Noah’s little baby had generated 26 different versions of itself in different cities.

Good work fellas!

To twist the old Honda voice over: isn’t it nice when things just seem to work by themselves (with no effort required by their inventor)

PS if you ever get to chapter 10 in the book, you’ll know why I like to think of Carwyn James at this point.