The magic of early internet culture: In 1996 I’m in Stauffer Library at Queen’s, standing at one terminal emailing my friend who’s at another. The sheer delight and novelty of that communication—and of being able to search up the lyrics to your favourite songs. It was fundamentally about human connection.
When a speech act is actively seeking an audience, it becomes increasingly self-conscious and self-reflexive. This is intensified when expression is mediated through algorithms and growth metrics. Speaking becomes more natural and confident when you become an audience to your self first—speaking to the audience you already have, and the one you imagine your self to have.
More Cowbell vimeo.com/467158620
The attention economy runs on a triumvirate: forced posting, forced consumption, forced engagement. The more we actively shift to an interest economy, the more sustainable creatorship becomes.
Organic 2.0
The more refined the skill, the more natural it appears.
My Maple is now on a health journey that’s put life into focus. Where she’s been my constant companion and comfort, it’s my turn now to be that for her—and just put all love and joy at her for as long as I get to. In that clarity, the universe just gave us three days of glorious sunshine to walk and play together, just her and me, and I’ll treasure that golden moment forever.
Eating for macros is a whole different bag.
Craft > content
Smile at strangers. Hold doors for them. Chat to people waiting or seated next to you. Get to know your neighbours. Host gatherings. Play games together. Start a community project. Befriend people of younger and older generations.
LOTR | The Lighting of the Beacons youtu.be/mFuOTwdcp…
How technocracy has become our reality | The Listening Post www.youtube.com/watch
The guys riding the lawnmowers in the park left the tall grass with the buttercups. My kind of people 🌼
We might view our combined knowledge as a form of collective cognition. Within this aggregate, each human life has a distinct point of view and lived experience that cannot be fully captured or reproduced. Wisdom remains grounded in human life because it emerges from personal, social and biological properties that situate it, undissolved, within the broader whole.
Core KPIs: Qualified inbound, referral %, close rate, revenue.
Wondrous new learning for Earth Day: there’s a narrative lexicon to forest structure. The tree canopy is called the overstory, with the understory all the plant life growing beneath.
Conversations around artistry and the machine are saturated.