Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction.
-- Albert Einstein
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Published on Jan 25, 2016
Say you have started a book club. You need to coordinate with the members to choose books to read, schedule meetings, decide who is bringing the wine and cheese, etc.
You probably use some spreadsheets, some web services like message forums and polls — and make it all work with a flood of email.
You watch your life passing by as you robotically copy and paste between email and spreadsheets and all these services.
What you want is a custom website like a Rails app or a Drupal installation, but you were an English major.
What you need is a tool as easy to learn as a spreadsheet or HyperCard.
It should be one designed to build ad-hoc social applications.
Of course it should be at home on the dominant platform for social software: smartphones.
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