Boredom helps foment creativity. Creativity is a life-skill and a philosophical form of combat. Bored kids become creative adults. Sourced from my kids, here is a sample of recent Midjourney prompts for CGI art: /imagine game logo for Evil Chicken, with huge eyelashes, and a huge purple bow /imagine a big pink fluffy cloud with big purple eyes and a big, purple bow and small mouth /imagine a panda with big eyelashes and purple bow, background is floral bouquets with a rainbow

Sensor data is user-generated, not because of the user’s cognition, but rather physical movement. The interesting thing about Twitter and the various “springs” it fomented across the globe, was innovation in engineering solutions to support streaming data at scale, subject to intense data production and data consumption loads. The infrastructure to support a use case, with skills, and mindset was built up and then…dispersed.

Helmet Bowl, by Bob Williamson

If I were to start recording myself speaking and distributing via social technologies today, I wouldn’t call it a podcast, because nobody has held an iPod in a decade. The term podcasting feels back-anachronistic. From a branding perspective, I believe in calling something what it is, rather than referring to what it isn’t. Potential alternative cyber labels for podcasting: Recorded Conference Calls

Now that grift certificates, er, I mean, NFTs, are confirmed vaporware, please remember to crack open a book every once in a while. Also, go out and touch grass. The smell of fresh paper pulp and adhesive with your toes in the lawn works wonders for exercising sense-making skills.

The vibe on LinkedIn can be a microblogging platform on the struggle bus. It’s like an open, distributed Slack meets Snapchat, where the revenue-generating users are recruiters who’re being laid off. It’s also — apparently — the professional network, that’s why Microsoft bought it for many billions of dollars. As…

I just finished “A Hacker’s Mind: How the Powerful Bend Society’s Rules, and How to Bend them Back” by Bruce Schneier. He writes about hacking is “an activity allowed by the system that subverts the goal or intent of the system.” In the last couple of chapters on AI, he uses the term “countersubversion.” My own personal label for the concept: Superversive.

I am reading the book “A Hacker’s Mind”, and the author quotes a former president on the subject of fear and risk: “when people are insecure, they’d rather have somebody who is strong and wrong than someone who’s weak and right.” — Bill Clinton Public companies want to appear strong to analysts and the asset owners who hold shares. Right and wrong are moral considerations. Given all the macro and micro rolling polycrises in the workplace (i.e. increased cost of capital, recessionary environment, skill/labor deficit, hiring freezes, cultural transformation, distributed work, technology disruption, etc), the Clinton quote tracks.

It’s football season! For me, that means it’s the time of year that minors in the household actually see ads…and can’t hit the “skip” button. Sometimes, the 30 to 60-second TV spot is clever enough to keep their attention and make them laugh. Creatives in advertising and marketing have a…