Good morning, Infosphere!
Over the past few months, I've been wanting to set up "Metathink Mondays." Essentially, once a week, post an insight or a question that we can all ponder and reflect upon, in the service of making us smarter. Then, I'll collect all the feedback, assemble it into another post or ebook that would be like an...
The world as we know it is in disruption. Maybe it's always been in disruption, pushing us through cycles of apparent chaos so that evolution can continue and new paradigms emerge. Thanks to social technologies, we're growing into a globally connected communication system, and seem to be heading towards a tipping point. But what is it that we're...
Or, The Risk of Extrapolating Linear Trends Against Non-Linear Systems.
A common habit in forecasting, particularly in energy futures & economic growth, is to take roughly linear trends and extend them over the next few decades. The notion is that there is inertia in what has already happened that will make the future look markedly similar,...
What allows beings to love each other is also what makes them lovable, and ruins the utopia of autism-for-two.
Has anyone here heard of the Tarnac 9?
Or, "The Coming Insurrection"? (from whence the above quote was taken).
I asked some questions a while back, in the entry No Secret.
Namely, I wanted to...
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My Duty
Im a man of not to many words, maybe thats why I have the gift of art in my life which im really gratefull about, I ll take this opportunity to show my art to this community, those may be my contributions, right now im working on a series of murals call ¨Inhabitants¨, hope to hear your feedback or any information that may help my art...
Recently during #journchat, I saw a reference to a post titled Does Your Twitter Handle Belong on Your Resume? The author is a PR college student, and the conversation around the post is mainly tactical, but the bigger picture surrounding our online identities is one I've been wanting to address for some time, so this gives me the opportunity....