Butterfly feet Warm Fuzzies In first grade, our class took a field trip to the local health center to learn about feelings. They called them “warm fuzzies” and “cold pricklies.” The other kids seemed to know exactly what the teacher meant. They talked about love, jealousy, fear, anger. They had words for everything. I didn’t….
Category: Culture
Notes on culture
Your Execs Are Going to Kill Your AI Strategy
Not your engineers.Not the models.Not the tooling. Your executives. If your leadership team still runs the company through slide decks, your AI initiative is already compromised. AI does not thrive in PowerPoint. Work becomes about presentability: One Company, Two Realities Every company has two operating systems: Finance works inside Xero models and reconciliations.Sales lives in Salesforce pipelines and probabilities.Engineering lives…
Quiet Mind: Aphantasia, Anendophasia, and What Do You Mean You Hear Voices?
Turns out my brain’s a minimalist; while others visualize, I just see a blank canvas—great for art, terrible for teleporting!
Happy Burns Night
Address to the Haggis
Trump Protects Protesters?
A recent headline said that Trump was ready to send in the military to protect peaceful protestors after 8 were killed last week. Oh… Trump is ready to protect Iranian protesters challenging Iran’s government, while federal forces continue to brutalize American citizens protesting on American soil. Got it. That’s much more on brand. People on the left…
Happy Halloween
A belated Happy Halloween, a blessed Samhain, and goofy gaurd themed kickoff to the autumnial spece season.
Reading Sontag: A Note from Inside the Camp
a.k.a. Camp as Queer Spellcraft 1. Susan Sontag Is Camp Clueless The 2019 Met Gala’s theme was “Camp: Notes on Fashion.” Camp is hard to define. The Met Gala started, like most people, with Susan Sontag’s 1964 Notes on Camp as the definitive guide. But when it comes to Camp, Ms. Sontag doesn’t seem to know her….
Sustainable Media Manifesto
The Internet we were promised is not the one we ended up with. Instead of being the long tail out of Mass Media monoculture, we ended up with a surveillance economy where bots and algorithms compel our clicks and engagement in return for “free” content. The race for engagement has pushed humanity down a dark…
Bad Government – What Can You Do?
Rules are Good, But What About Abuse? After reading Republicans Are Not Hypocrites, my uncle asked me: The Good News The good news is that our founding fathers have already addressed these issues. Our laws and governments are living structures, built to evolve and be amended. We can pick our own representation, people who should…
Burns Night
Happy Burn’s night! Celebrated this year with friends, a lot of haggis, toasts, cheers; and all the things you can make with scotch and butter.
Apple Vision Pro Questions
From desktop, to clamshell laptop, to tablet/phone handheld; Apple is betting they can change, or at least, extend the form factor of personal computing again. Questions I have: How many monitors? Vision Pro has the ability to act as a 4K monitor for an Apple computer. It seems reasonable that it will use AirPlay2, which…