The never ending quest to keep doing what you’re good at and get better at it…rather than making another PowerPoint about what you worked on last week. // “One of the biggest contributors to rust out is spending your energy in places that don’t align with your unique talents and skills. In my own experience, and in working with my clients, a simple way to uncover your unique talents is to notice your energy.
What the kids are saying
🔗 Study Reveals America’s Most Searched Slang Words 2025 / OHIO; mayonnaise
"perhaps I am expecting too much when there is a poop emoji on the cover."
“perhaps I am expecting too much when there is a poop emoji on the cover.” Cory Doctorow Turned His Word of the Year Into a Whole Book
Ever Elusive AI ROI
“for every $1 spent on model development, firms should expect to have to spend $3 on change management, which means user training and performance monitoring.” // How it started “AI-enabling the entire customer service stack of a typical business could lead to a 60 to 80 percent price increase, McKinsey says.” How it’s going: “while quoting an HR executive at a Fortune 100 company griping: ‘All of these copilots are supposed to make work more efficient with fewer people, but my business leaders are also saying they can’t reduce head count yet.
Frankfurt, October, 2025
How wonderful is this?
It’s a 3D print thing.
Parenting teenagers
"I assume they kept the socks as evidence too."
“I assume they kept the socks as evidence too.” Theft of Services via Sock
More slop words
“Slopjects.” pointed out by bruces
do you hug or hand-shake?
All I really need to know about socio-political culture I learned from 80s high school movies.
🔗 Performing Gender, Left and Right