5. Hi hi, and thanks for coming. 1. Higgs Boson Announced
6. And thanks to Bally Town Hall for hosting this 1. Weyermann Introduces
Heirloom Malts
conference, and to Weyermann for sponsor-
ing the beer and pizza.
7. I’m, we’re, looking forward to meeting you all later. 1. AJAX Spinner Generator
OK, I want to talk to you all about whisky. Does
everyone here like whisky?
8. The quandries around the three-year minimum 1. How Whisky is Made
2. Scotch Whisky Regula-
ageing in scotch whiskys marr innovation, tions 2009
9. and literally block newcomers in the market 1. Preemption of Scarce As-
sets
from establishing a ‘grain-hold.’
10.
11. We don’t have the culture;
1. What it means to be Or- 1. Can Whisky Become
ange a Trendy Drink for the
Young? @ Brand Equity
2. Ray Oldenburg’s Third
Space 2. World’s Largest Whisky
Culture Embassy Opens
in Beijing
12. nor the estate;
1. Diageo
2. Innovation @ Diageo
3. Breakdown of Distillery
Ownership
13. nor the heirloom grasses.
1. Malters Bring Terroir to
the Bottle
2. Weyermann Malts
14. We have the tenacity and flexibility of being new,
1. PIttyvaich
2. St Magdalene
but that won’t see us through three harvests. 3. 3 of 4 Startups Fail
17. but that won’t see us through three harvests.
1. Predicting the Unpredict-
able
18.
19. Ardhasker Azeotrope are excited to
1. Distillation Principles
2. A Short History of the Art
launch the Tri-Still Engine, of Distillation
3. The New Era of Work
Launch
20. a machine that temporally accelerates
1. Home Aging Recipes
2. Does Longer Aging Im-
the wood ageing process tenfold prove Whisky?
3. Terressentia
4. Backward Compatibility
5. Software Life Cycle
21. bringing a minimum-age drink to you in
1. TerrePURE
2. How to Create a Minimum
three months, Viable Product?
3. Reducing Congeners and
Hangovers
22. not three years.
1. What are the dangers of
drinking Isopropyl Alco-
hol?
2. Fischer-Speier Esterfica-
tion
29. Why?
1. USA Today
2. Wolff Olins
3. USA Today... Re-imagined
30. We think the Tri Still Engine disrupts homeostasis,
1. Homeostasis
2. Human Homeostasis
but isn’t against it. 3. Disrupting Class
31. Claude Bernard says, ‘the constancy of the internal envi-
1. Claude Bernard @ Ency-
clopedia Britannic
ronment is the condition for a free and independent life’. 2. Experimental Physiology
We don’t disagree, although our detractors say our work
perverts this condition.
32. But, when it’s switched on, the Tri Still engine is
1. Autoclaves & Sterilisers
2. Protective Tissues in
a closed system and is internally stable, Plants & Animals
3. Working at Scale
33. regardless of any disparaties between the
1. IPO Basics
2. Thermos Technologies
inside and the out. It’s a bit like a thermos.
34. And, we sync the engine via open-source API
1. What is an API?
2. GNU Licensing
3. Who Invented Whisky?
The Scots or the Irish?
4. AJAX
5. Creating a Knowledge
Sharing Culture
35. to the clock of the Long Now, at 300% speed.
1. The Long Now Founda-
tion
2. Seminars about Long-
Term Thinking
3. List of Oldest Companies
4. Whisky Prices and Age
5. How to Set Business
Goals
36. It’s a physical cross-rhythm.
1. Simplicity and Order for
All
2. Jack Dorsey
3. AirBNB Social
4. Casa al Reves, AirBNB
Founder’s favourite listing
37. The contents of the Engine fire into the future,
1. Ultrasonic Whisky Aging
2. TerrePure - A brief over-
relative to its surroundings. view
39. But they resolve inside and out
1. Djembe Fanga
2. Silicon Valley Mania in
with an underpinning akin to Africa
3. Ubuntu
sub-saharan traditional musics. 4. African Rhythm & African
Sensibility
40. So Ardharsker Tri Still 3 Months is a
1. Jack Morton
2. Barra Airport
drink for a place that’s (something like) 3. Barra Airport (Wiki)
in between the time just beyond now,
4. Is the Tipping Point Toast?
and the past.
41. It’s for the wooden-floored bus with
1. Bus/Coach Mobile Wifi
Hotspot
the mobile hotspot installed, or the 2. 032c Rem Koolhaas
3. Goodbye Starchitecture,
farm that’s managed remotely using Welcome Countryside!
harvest analytics.
42. With your help, we feel like that place
1. List of places with “Sili-
con” Names
could be Ballysileachn. 2. 10,000 Likes or 10 Brand
Evangelists?
43. 1. Centralia PA, site of the
longest burning mine fire
2. Boycott Absolut Vodka
3. TBWA
49. And all the specialised distillery workers in
1. Empowering Employees
(on Google Books)
Ballysileachn here today. 2. Talking to Coworkers Can
Get you Fired
3. Workers Leaving the
Googleplex
55. You go to work.
1. La Perruque
2. Bob Outsources Own Job
and Whiles Away Shifts
3. The Quest of Michel De
Certeau
4. How to Add a Fake Sky
56. When we spot that you’re in range of
1. Whisky Technology Pro-
duction & Marketing
an Uncollaborated Still, your device will 2. AirBnB Office Design
3. Garcia Tamjidi
beep. 4. Office Snapshots
57. Press the top once. Your information will be
1. eLance
2. Amazon Mechanical Turk
forwarded to an eLance farm — 3. Running Experiments on
Mechanical Turk
59. — where contract workers will look through the
1. Falcon Cam
2. Falcon Watching
window of your distillery using one of the many 3. Remote Webcams
falcon-watcher cams available online. If your boss
is looking away, the device will beep twice.
60. If you hear two beeps, pour some of our
1. Whisky Tampering on
Trove
Tri Still whisky into your still. 2. Adulteration of Canadian
Whisky
61. Remember to carry this whiskey in our flask
1. Official site for Phiten Ti-
tanium Bracelets
receptacle. We’ve ionised the aluminium ma- 2. Ionisation
3. Create your own Fake
terial of the flask, in order to preserve the Store with Amazon aS-
tores
vapour pressure of the liquid within.
62. (We’ve seen trace markings that this works.
1. MHRA (Regulatory Agen-
cy)
You’re testing this at scale, though.) 2. How We Regulate Devices
3. Delaware Corporation
63. Pour the whiskey into your still,
1. Flavour Still
2. Rotary Vacuum Evaporator
3. Flavours from Distillation
64. and click the top of your device again.
1. Flavour Still
2. Rotary Vacuum Evaporator
3. Flavours from Distillation
65. This will send an email via Azeo
1. Onomastics
2. Database Icon
API to the eLance farm, where a
worker will tag your still as a par-
tially Collaborated Still.
66.
67. Each flask of whiskey adds 6.12% to this value —
1. Health Statement for
Chloroform
one tenth the boiling point of chloroform.
69. An Azeotrope, our namesake, is a
1. Azeotrope
mixture of two liquids that are mixed
to the point that they cannot be un-
entangled by distillation.
70. If you try, it simply vaporises proportionately.
1. When a start-up fails...
71. By working together to add our Tri Still liquid
1. Managing a Remote
Workforce
to all batches of single-malt specialty whis- 2. The Future of Work
ky in Scotland, you are creating a totally new
collaboration
72. — the number goes on endlessly,
1. More Than A Map — The
Google Maps API
as our favourite things do. 2. Good.Is/Everyone
73. And we think of this as an Azeotropic
1. Visual Complexity
2. del.icio.us
revolution: un-entanglable. 3. Scotland’s 10 Best Walks
75. If all whiskey is partly sped up, the rules on
1. wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumb_
laws
ageing become ignorable. 2. Keith Rabois
3. Only Two Left in Stock
76. And we’ve always liked ignoring the rules.
1. Closing Statement from
Future Cities Develop-
ment
2. Another Blow
3. Clarion Capital Server Er-
ror in ‘/’ Application
77. But we don’t want to run ragged over the
1. A Booze of One’s Own
2. Littlemore Distillery (de-
existing infrastructure here in Ballysileachn. molished)
78. 1. Stanford Golf Cart Poli-
We all know the history of this place. cies
2. Stanford Sandstone & Tile
79. In 1891 the Lathrop University began an aggressive
1. EaSTCHEM
2. Water for Whisky
program of innovation in the chemical sciences. 3. Detection of Counterfeit
Scotch by Isotope Signa-
ture
80. This program was overseen by Leland Terman,
1. Eric Schmidt
2. Larry Ellison
a management psychologist and progenitor to 3. Rene Girard
the school of Rene Girard.
4. Steve Jobs
5. Clayton Christensen
81.
82. Terman’s policies of mimetic isolation called
1. The Neuroscience of Mi-
metic Desire
for Ballysileachn to be cut off from the world 2. Floating Desire?
in order to prosper, guided by ecological
and cultural precedents —
83. the beautiful, endemic species
1. Galapagos Conservancy
2. Invasive Species
of the Galapagos
84. and the editorial perfection of stills in the re-
1. Historical Notes
mote isles as examples.
85. Trade and trans-city routes
1. Contractors Board Up
Wells Fargo
were severed. 2. Railroad Sabotage in
Montreal
3. List of Highway Revolts
86. 1. How to build a Dry Stone
Wall
2. Building a Dry Stone Wall
87. 1. 15 Google Interview
Students and faculty were chosen Questions
for their intellectual temerity and their
propensity for solitariness.
88. 1. How Will You Measure
All recreational and communal facilities Your Life?
were design to orient interactions to- 2. Life at the Googleplex
wards measurable goals.
89. 1. Offshore Artificial Reef
A man-made reef, one fathom underwater, was User Guide
erected within the water border of Ballysileachn 2. Artificial Reefs Around the
World
92. Terman wanted to create a fruitful nowhere;
1. Cloud Computing
2. DNS Root Servers
he dreamed of an eventual landless, stateless,
unharnessed zone of innovation.
93. And such states need a drink.
1. Laphroig Distillery fermen-
tation dregs tank
2. List of National Liquors
3. Simulated Sky / Sun
94. — A social-recreational underpinning that defines
1. Eric Schmidt @ Burning
Man
the inside from the out. 2. Eric Schmidt 2
95. A communal machine for building an internally
1. How the GooglePlex
works
stable culture with, and for, 2. Last of Scotland’s Gannet
Hunters
3. Sula Sgeir
4. Buildings of St Kilda,
Scotland
96. people who like each other and share
1. Nissan Leaf provides the
final link in self-sufficiency
for Bruichladdich
measurable and meaningful goals
