Tag: culture
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How public intellectuals can extend their shelf lives – Spend a lot of time steering yourself to be optimistic, and engineer a continuous drip of new ideas and perspectives.
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The Digital Transformation Card Game – an interview
This week’s Software Defined Talk podcast episode is an interview I did with Jana Werner. If you’re into software, DevOps, agile, product management…all that “digital transformation” stuff, you’ll like it. We go over a deck of cards she’s put together that are meant to provoke executives and managers to start thinking about they could change…
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Things I Like
There are many things I like, but these are some I can think of now1: Above all else, I like making content and publishing it. I like reading short things (I used to like books, but now that I know a lot of the 101 stuff after ~40 years, I get frustrated/bored by how long…
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devPRops – better put PR in your backlog
Better put PR on the backlog Art for no one, by no one. Art whose only audience is the collective pathos. Incredible. [AI culture problems as art] The Gemini thing: the conversation around AI technology is now based on how it can navigate social and cultural issues, less if it “works.” These social and cultural…
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Touching the Flying Spaghetti Monster
Upgrade That Spring! If you do Spring stuff in a large enterprise, you should check this thing out. Relative to your interests AI for Economists – Some prompt formations and stuff for the ChatGPT and friends. Signs that it’s time to leave a company – Attempts to get people back in the office are something…
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Man, Myth & Magic The Illustrated Encyclopedia Of Mythology 21 Volumes In 1 – This is the kind of stuff I’d pursue and spend hours looking through in the 80’s.
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Culture vultures – “Traditional word-based culture—and, sure, I’ll stick Twitter into that category—is now a feeding ground for vultures.”
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Why haven’t internet creators become superstars? – “Internet stardom bestows no glamor.”
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Fantasy Meets Reality – “If it looks neat, people will want to take a photo with it. If it looks comfortable, people will want to sit on it. If it looks fun, people will play around on it.”
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Scratch Pad: Fireworks, Bootlegs, Spock – “I remain convinced that most categories of online services are akin either to hair salons, to grocery stores, or to movie theaters.” Also, the Spock picture.
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Pulling On Threads – I forgot about the “bring your whole self” thing.
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Five Nos – “‘yeses’ matter more than ‘nos,’ and taking more chances generates more of each. While there’s a near equal chance of getting told ‘no’ in our endeavors, in virtually all cases, there is no penalty for that rejection beyond some brief discomfort or embarrassment. On the other hand, when you get a ‘yes,’…
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It’s time for the Kubernetes value line – “There’s a reason the saying ‘culture eats tech for breakfast’ has become a favorite in today’s IT lexicon. What this pithy saying doesn’t get into is that technology can change behavior over time.”
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All those naked Greeks… – I think the conclusion is status, power, beauty, and sex.
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The past is not what’s normal, the present is.
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“The Dead Silence of Goods”: Annie Ernaux and the Superstore – The culture of big box stores as seen through French eyes.
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Jeffrey Bernard put it when I went to interview him: “As if there was something romantic and glamorous about hard work . . . if there was something romantic about it, the Duke of Westminster would be digging his own fucking garden, wouldn’t he?” How to Be Idle: A Loafer’s Manifesto by Tom Hodgkinson 📚
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The Polaroids of Andrei Tarkovsky : The Mystery of Everyday Life –
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